How to automate Form Submit???

[TheGaffer8]

HI All

I am new to this forum and do not understand HTML language.

Basically, I have a web form on our club website. The problem is, the way it was set up for me means that when people click submit it relies on them havign OUtlook for the email to send properly, and it also asks them to confirm whether they want the outlook client to send email on their behalf. The result is of course a very confusing sequence for non-IT literate people to take just to submit a form.

I would like to change it so that when they click submit, everything is done in the background and they do not have to do anythign else. It would still need to be emailled but they would not necessarily need to have OUtlook.

Any ideas? As I said, i do not understand html, so if anyone could really help a new to the code person to understand that would be great.

By the way... the way it is emailled to me at present is like this:

PlayerID=PKJ12CC1
TeamID=PKJ12DJM1
Reason=Weekly Review
Date=20/10/07
OffTBChal=1
OffTBMark=2
OffTBPres=2
OffTBCov=2
OffTBSuppAtt=3
OffTBSuppDef=2
OnTBRF=2
OnTBHead=2
OnTBLF=2
OnTBPow=1
OnTBCon=3
OnTBAcc=2
OnTBFT=3
OnTBDrib=2
OnTBPS=3
OnTBTurn=1
OnTBPL=2
OnTBRWTB=1
OnTBFin=2
OnTBDM=1
OnTBCross=1
PsyConf=1
PsyAware=3
PsyConcen=2
PsyDet=3
PhyFit=3
PhyStr=2
PhyBal=3
PhySpeed=2
ActionPlan=Practise goalkicks

This is so that we can easily manipulate the response back into the Access database that handles the information.

Sorry to be a pain, but also, what is the chance of setting a message on clicking submit that prompts a user if they havent completed every field?

Please see the attached txt file for details of the html code for the webpage and form.

[Ryan Fait]

You would use PHP for this. Check out http://hotscripts.com/ for an email script.

[TheGaffer8]

HI Ryan,

Thanks for that link... I got a good little program to do exactly what I wanted... but when i've uploaded the script to the webserver, i get the following error message:

Error 405 Method Not Allowed


The requested method POST is not allowed for URL /index.php Powered by Zeus Technology

Any ideas?

[Lchad]

Does your webhost allow you to use PHP? You may want to check with them.