At 09:45 PM 2/11/2002 -0800, Mike wrote: >I am creating a page with a form on it. I want it so that when people click >submit, I want the information from the form to be emailed to me. Is there a >way I can do this with normal JavaScripting or even plain HTML or would I >have to use something like PHP. > >Thanks
The only way to do this without using a server-side script is to just have the form contents e-mailed. If you make the form action="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; I believe it will create a formatted e-mail message to send to you when the user clicks submit. However, it is still left to the user to have their web browser e-mail configured properly and they then have to click send for it to go through. If, say, the user uses Netscape Navigator and the default Netscape mail plug-in is Netscape Mail, but the user doesn't use Netscape Mail and hasn't actually configured it to send (because they haven't gotten around to it or whatever), then it will pop up the form to be e-mailed in Netscape Mail and the user won't be able to send it. And, like I said, even if it goes to the right e-mail program, the user has to still click "Send". These are some things to watch out for. E-mail forms aren't generally used, especially by professional sites, because they're just too reliant on the user being hooked up correctly and proficient enough to send it through. What a big assumption to make. :) -Mike -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
