form troubles please help!! :(

You need a server-side script (in the action attribute) to have a form submit information to your email address.

What server-side languages do you have available on your server?

A lot of hosting companies will have a script for you to use. I'd contact them and ask what form-handler or formmail script they allow you to use and what is the path you need to put into the 'action' of the form.

Thanks for that. Ive tried finding some and my hosting company provides me with one that sort of does the trick but not how I want it to. The server languages are:

Full CGIBin support
C++
PHP 4.04
TCL
Python
ePerl
Perl 5.xx
MySQL

Ive tried formmail.pl but thats way too complex for me!!!

FormMail is probably the easiest to use. What does your host offer and why doesn't it work for you?

My host offers a similar script to formMail and it does send info automatically when someone submits data. What it is tho is that I have the data sent to [email protected] which is set with an autoresponder which is then ment to send an email back to the person who just submitted the data confirming what they have just done. Thing is the form just submitts the data and doesnt recognise it as an email so it wont autorespond. If you were to look at my site you would see what I am getting at!!! The formMail I used earlier is not in the script I think its just a simple mailto at the min. Dont know if what I just said clears things up im not the best at explaining!!!

knock something up in PHP... its dead easy and you can make the php script send the email to you and the user.

If you want some example code i'll happily email it to you, or failing that give me the URL of the form and i'll do it for ya!)

(although it won't be until tomorrow cos i'm out on the p*ss tonight. )

Oh yeah... i also need to know what you want in the email to you (exactly how you want the layout) and what you want in the email to the client) and the email address that you want your copy of the form to go to.

Jonathan,

You're not alone in not liking Matt's Formmail as it's commonly known, there is however a PHP alternative which offers you all the features without any of the headaches, I've included the description and url for you to grab you very own special copy of Jack's FormMail.php.

DESCRIPTION
What is FormMail.php?
"Jacks FormMail.php" is a generic WWW form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified through the form, meaning you don't need any programming knowledge or multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail the perfect system-wide solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access. There are several downloading options available below and more information on this script can be found in the Readme file.

http://www.dtheatre.com/scripts/formmail?PHPSESSID=f7da93b2becbec75830a9e4b696d7ed9

Sorry Matt but your script is just a pain in the a**

hotscripts.com also has some php mail scripts, try use one with validation

Well you know what they say:

"COINCIDENCE happens"

My friend wants some formmail PHP code that I made, I'll upload to my server sometime soon (after browsing the rest of the forums and put up the link

OK, The files have been uploaded they can be found at this link:

http://chengeu.krayup.com/temp/contact.phps
This is the actual form

http://chengeu.krayup.com/temp/mail.phps
This is the PHP code to go with it.

If you would like to see this in action then it can be found at my website here:
http://chengeu.krayup.com/index.php?page=contact

Hope it was what you were looking for