Busy — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:26:06 +0000

The only way to avoid the email spiders is to use server side (PHP, ASP etc).
Use Suzannes example above (post #4) and they can't get your email address.

With PHP, just because it's in the code, doesn't mean it's on the page or is viewable. Just make a form, use the name= on the inputs, calling them 'msg' and 'eddress' and should all work good. Just remember to name the page with a .php extension.

w5blt — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:42:32 +0000

Suzanne wrote: The main drawback of this option is that your email address WILL get harvested by spam spiders.

Which brings up two more questions. What would I put in this part:

And, is there a way to get around the spam spiders?

Suzanne — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:12:53 +0000

The main drawback of this option is that your email address WILL get harvested by spam spiders.

Suzanne — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:11:33 +0000

<form method="post" action="http://chengeu.krayup.com/public/mail.php">
      <input type="hidden" name="form_to" value="YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS GOES HERE" />
      <p>Name: <input type="text" name="form_from" value="Name" /></p>
      <p>Email: <input type="text" name="form_email" value="Email" /></p>
      <p>Subject: <input type="text" name="form_subject" value="Subject" /></p>
      <p>Message: <textarea name="form_message">Message</textarea></p>
      <p><input type="reset" value="Reset" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
    </form>

Suzanne — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:10:09 +0000

yes -- the action in Renegade's example calls his script and the hidden field tells his script where to email the information.

w5blt — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:03:31 +0000

Renegade wrote: lol heres a sample of a minimum:
http://chengeu.krayup.com/public/mail_testing.html

...just view source...sorry, my fault :S

The form is a good basis for what I need. However, I don't see the code that would envoke the users email platform.

Also, I was expecting to see some kind of "mailto:xxx@xxx.com" or something like that.

Am I missing something?

Renegade — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:30:38 +0000

lol heres a sample of a minimum:
http://chengeu.krayup.com/public/mail_testing.html

...just view source...sorry, my fault :S

Suzanne — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 03:59:26 +0000

hey, Renegade -- how would he get the email without saying where it is to go??

Renegade — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 03:23:07 +0000

I created a generic PHP formmailer a while ago, it might be of some use to you, just add this to your form tag:

action="http://www.sitebug.com/public/mail.php"

e.g.

...your form stuff...

Suzanne — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:59:02 +0000

Mailto does still work in forms? It's just not a good idea.

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For php, you need to have a processor on the server that you send the form information to:

and in "mailme.php", you'd do this:

<?php
// fields from form are 'msg, eddress'
$message = $_POST['msg'];
$email = $_POST['eddress']; // heh, ain't I clever?

// this is stuff you can set (or be fields in your form)
$myeddress = \"me@mydomain.com\";
$subject = \"this is a form sent from my domain to me!\";

// send the form contents on their way!
mailto($myeddress,$subject,$message,\"From: $email\");

// send the user to a nice static thank you page
header(\"Location: http://www.mydomain.com/thanks.html\");
exit;
?>

Note: This HAS security holes and NO DATA VERIFICATION and I typed it off the top of my head so it may well have typos as well, so use AT YOUR OWN RISK.