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Contact forms

Posted: 2003-08-12 03:30am
by haas mark
PLEASE, someone tell me they know how to do contact forms...????

~ver

Posted: 2003-08-12 02:20pm
by phongn
Not enough info...?

Posted: 2003-08-12 02:29pm
by Pu-239
What are contact forms?

Posted: 2003-08-12 06:16pm
by haas mark
Pu-239 wrote:What are contact forms?
CGI scripts for web pages. I am trying to set required fields and set it to send to e-mail, but it's not working. And I'm getting really pissed off at it. And trying to avoid JavaScript as much as possible.

~ver

Posted: 2003-08-12 06:50pm
by kojikun
Why bother? Just make an email link.

Posted: 2003-08-12 07:11pm
by haas mark
kojikun wrote:Why bother? Just make an email link.
Because it NEEDS to be a contact form.

~ver

Posted: 2003-08-12 10:48pm
by Pu-239
Read here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/f ... #h-17.13.1

For the html part I can look it up really quick and code it )after I get done with setting up SAMBA on my home NW)(never needed it).

You probably need a perl script or something on the server to invoke sendmail or something to send stuff passed using HTTP post. I don't know perl but I'm sure DW can help you with that. There's also a bunch of scripts online you can use. Does angelfire give you a cgi-bin? Otherwise you have to use prohosting or something that does.

You probably want javascript for form validation though, so the user does not have to wait for the server to validate.

Never heard about forms being called contact forms.

Posted: 2003-08-13 03:16am
by haas mark
Pu-239 wrote:Read here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/f ... #h-17.13.1

For the html part I can look it up really quick and code it )after I get done with setting up SAMBA on my home NW)(never needed it).

You probably need a perl script or something on the server to invoke sendmail or something to send stuff passed using HTTP post. I don't know perl but I'm sure DW can help you with that. There's also a bunch of scripts online you can use. Does angelfire give you a cgi-bin? Otherwise you have to use prohosting or something that does.

You probably want javascript for form validation though, so the user does not have to wait for the server to validate.

Never heard about forms being called contact forms.
bleh.. [slams head into desk] I despise JavaScript.. [sighs] Oh, well, thanks for the info, though.

~ver