paintballdude13 — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:13:23 +0000

Thanks for the help I used Freedback and it works, thanks for the help guys. I know if I have anymore help I know where to turn.

Suzanne — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:53:35 +0000

http://webdesign.about.com/library/beginning/bl_begin073099.htm
ah ha, use GET!

Suzanne — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:52:56 +0000

http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa092302a.htm

well look at that, that's how it's supposed to work? Man. It's been a zillion years since I tried anything like this, sorry.

Suzanne — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:50:09 +0000

Geocities has no form handler?

paintballdude13 — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:41:12 +0000

Ok well its still not working, this is the main thing I need for the whole site is forms and I dont know what I'm gonna do if this doesnt start working. This is the coding I used, the site is hosted on Geocities and I'm trying to send it to my Hotmail Email account

first name:

last name:

email:

male
female

Put the space in on the mail part cause it was making it a smiley face on here.

Suzanne — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:28:32 +0000

Normally email forms DON'T open your email application, then just send the form via email? So the resulting email you get should be like this:

field+value+field1+value1+field2+value2 et cetera.

But it shouldn't send the information through the users email application. It should use the email server for the site. Make sure you set the method on the form to "post".

paintballdude13 — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:11:57 +0000

Webmistress I'm going to be hosting this site on Geocities so I dont know exactly what I'm gonna do. I'm probaly going to be starting on it laster tonight, after my mom gets me all the stuff she wants me to put on it. I'll look back to see exactly what I gotta do. I just want to have it like automatically submit it to a email account on hotmail, like not have them have to open up like Outlook and stuff.

kespeth — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:43:47 +0000

Thank you.

Welcome to TWF

The Webmistress — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:18:17 +0000

You will need to use a formmail script. Check with your hosting company to see if they offer one or you'll have to download one, amend it and upload it to your cgi-bin (unless you are going to use php or asp).

kespeth — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:53:45 +0000

Hello, I'm new to the forum, but I have a question regarding comment forms on websites.

I've read everything in the thread so far, but I came up to a problem.

When I tested my form, and clicked submit, I first got the Submittal via Email warning, so I clicked Ok. Then it opened up Outlook Express.

How do you make it so that it'll just send the submitted form without opening Outlook Express?