Help Me With My Email Form Please

[bruno89]

ok ill just cut to the chase now.. Iv made this form that i need for my order page on my site im making and instead of sending the information to my email address it opens up out look express so i dont know what im doin wrong can anyone see the mistake im makeing with this code ...

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</font></p>
  <p align="center"><br>
</p>
  <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:______@_____.co.uk">  <table width="500" 
border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
    <tr>
      <td><table width="600" border="0" 
align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1">
        <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <td colspan="2"><font size="2" 
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><center><b>Order form </b> </font></td>
        </tr>
        

<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <td align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Name: 
</font></td>
          <td align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
            <input 
name="name" type="text" id="name">
          </font></td>
        </tr>
        

<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <td align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Email: 
</font></td>
          <td align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
            <input 
name="email" type="text" id="email">
          </font></td>
 
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <td align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tell: 
</font></td>
          <td align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
            <input 
name="Phone" type="text" id="Tellephone">
          </font></td>
        </tr>
        

<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <td align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Address: 
</font></td>
          <td align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
            <input 
name="address" type="text" id="address">
          </font></td>
        </tr>
        

 </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <td align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, 
sans-serif">Subject :</font></td>
          <td align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
    
        <select name="subject" id="subject">
      <option>Buy</option>
        <option>Delivery</option>
              
<option>Cancle Order</option>
              <option>Quirey</option>
                                    </select>
          
</font></td>
        </tr>
        

<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <td align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">How 
can we contact you?</font></td>
          <td align="left">
              <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, 
sans-serif">
              <label>
              <input type="radio" name="contact_preference" value="email">
              
Email</label>
              <br>
              <label>
              <input type="radio" name="contact_preference" 
value="phone">
  Tell</label>
              </font></td>
        </tr>
        

<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <td align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, 
sans-serif">Message:</font></td>
          <td align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
     
       <textarea name="message" cols="40" rows="6" id="message"></textarea>
          </font></td>
        </tr>
        <tr 
bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
          <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"><INPUT 
TYPE="reset"></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
   </td></tr></table></form>

-Thanx Bruno

[sypher]

thats what it does, it opens ur default mail client.

You have to usee a form mailer if you want it to send automatically.

[bruno89]

how do i get that ?

[sypher]

www.hotscripts.com

[Dan Williamson]

I suggest using PHP I have written a basic one which should be modified and you will have to add the variables in PHP to match yours.

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<?php
                                                        
                                                        $subject ="$subject"; 
                                                        
                                                        $message="$detail"; 
                                                       
 
                                                       $to ='EMAIL HERE!!'; 
                                                       $send_contact=mail($to,$subject,$message);
                                                       
  if($send_contact){
  echo "We've recived your contact information";
  }
  else {
  echo "ERROR";
  }
  ?>

It should have a few anti-spam things in and other basic stuff but should work on the whole but was just a quick sketch-up.

[Dan Williamson]

Stupid Lag please delete this.

Edit: Hmmm the code box seems to have messed up, you will have to scroll

[ukgeoff]

If you want to go the php form route, which would be my preference, you may be interested in taking a look at an article and associated files that I put together last year on fighting back against spam.

http://1ontheweb.net/1ontheweblog.html

The pdf file explains the reasoning and the code. The associated files are in the zipped file.