N00b question: Simple JavaScript Form
Hi all.
Can you give me or do you know where I can find a simple JavaScript script that users will complete a question, their Name, their E-mail and it will send the results to me in an e-mail.
I think it can be done but just don't know how
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 20:07 — 13th March 2005.
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Not easily with Javascript. In any case, it would involve some crucial server-side scripting to handle sending the message. And it definitely won't be secure or reliable. Best bet is to make a plain old form and submit information to a PHP/ASP/CGI formmail script.
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 21:38 — 13th March 2005.
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is perl cgi?
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 22:51 — 13th March 2005.
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CGI is a framework that can be used by Perl (CGI.pm). Much like ASP/VBScript.
nicora posted this at 17:16 — 14th March 2005.
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CGI stands for "Common Gateway Interface", which if my understanding is correct, all server side technologies use.
heebiejeebieclu posted this at 18:57 — 14th March 2005.
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ug. so what would i need for that etc???
nicora posted this at 19:36 — 14th March 2005.
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what they are suggesting is to use a server side technology like ASP,PHP,CF or PEARL
you will need to choose one of those and have your site hosted where that technology is supported.
heebiejeebieclu posted this at 19:43 — 14th March 2005.
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ok, have the hosting. template availabe?
nicora posted this at 19:56 — 14th March 2005.
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what technology?
i searched google for "simple php contact form" and got this... i'm sure you could get this to work
http://www.karlcore.com/programming/contactform/
baldrick posted this at 18:38 — 18th April 2005.
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all you want is their details to be emailed to you rite
it dosent have to send credit card numbes so why not go for a simple solution and use a mailto form
Assassin posted this at 01:09 — 19th April 2005.
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I highly recomend that you learn PHP. It's worth its wait in gold. I don't want to discourage or irritate or set off any cgi or asp programers, but I really do think that PHP is the way of the future. It's been gaining on ASP for a long time and CGI is all but obsolete by comparison to PHP and ASP. Plus, PHP is an actual language of it's own. You don't have to learn it and then learn another language to run it.
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andy206uk posted this at 11:00 — 19th April 2005.
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If you can't run cgi on your server or need a quick easy solution have a look at these:
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Remotely_Hosted/Form_Processing/
Andy
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