Building a form

ecntrc · #1 (**permalink**) Jun 30th, 2006, 02:39

yes I do know, very very simple. i know how to but what i am having problem with is doing the submit and reset. do I use mailto or some other way? what is the right way to do it? I dont want to use some site that automatically does it for you Id like to build it myself. how can I do this? I dont want the users information to be on the web at all. So I want it secured. can anyone help me?

sypher · #2 (**permalink**) Jun 30th, 2006, 03:24

You need a server side language such as PHP, if you have this enabled i would be happy to explain how to do it for you.

johnson8707 · #3 (**permalink**) Jul 4th, 2006, 17:44

I would also appreciate it to because i am very new to PHP and could use some advice from someone.

sypher · #4 (**permalink**) Jul 4th, 2006, 18:14

You want the information that the user inputs in a form sent to an email address?

johnson8707 · #5 (**permalink**) Jul 4th, 2006, 19:16

Yes! that's exactly what i'm looking for! i have set up the text areas but can't seem to get the information to be set to an e-mail address. http://www.laketalquinfishing.com/ Check out the "Contact Us" form. That's what i need help with.

Thanks

sypher · #6 (**permalink**) Jul 4th, 2006, 23:57

I noticed your form uses an action of asp.

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action="contact.asp"

I dont do ASP so make sure your server can support php first.

ecntrc · #7 (**permalink**) Jul 7th, 2006, 19:24

my server supports PHP, i got an email from whoever tested out my form and it works apprantly but i dont have a working copy so im a little confused, im going to post my code

ecntrc · #8 (**permalink**) Jul 7th, 2006, 19:24

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-image: url("g8pat04.gif");
    font: 12px/24px "Georgia", "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color: #000000;
}

#title {
    width: 330px;
    height: 26px;
    color: #000000;
    font: bold 15px/18px "Georgia", "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    padding-top: 5px;
    background: transparent url("g8pat04.gif") no-repeat;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    letter-spacing: 3px;
    text-align: center;
}

form {
    width: 335px;
}

.col1 {
    text-align: right;
    width: 135px;
    height: 31px;
    margin: 0;
    float: left;
    margin-right: 2px;

}

.col2 {
    width: 195px;
    height: 31px;
    display: block;
    float: left;
    margin: 0;
    
}

.col2comment {
    width: 195px;
    height: 98px;
    margin: 0;
    display: block;
    float: left;
}

.col1comment {
    text-align: right;
    width: 135px;
    height: 98px;
    float: left;
    display: block;
    margin-right: 2px;
    
}

div.row {
    clear: both;
    width: 335px;
}

.submit {
    height: 29px;
    width: 330px;
    background: url(bg_submit.gif) no-repeat;
    padding-top: 5px;
    clear: both;
} 

.input {
    background-image: url("g8pat04.gif");
    font: 11px/14px "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color: #000000;
    margin: 4px 0 5px 8px;
    padding: 1px;
    border: 1px solid #000000;
}

.textarea {
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    background-image: url("g8pat04.gif");
    font: 11px/14px "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color: #000000;
    margin: 4px 0 5px 8px;
}

</style>
</head>

<body>
 <?php

if (isset($_POST['emailSubmit']))
      mail($_POST['emailTo'], $_POST['emailSubject'], $_POST['emailBody']);

?>
</p>
<form method="POST" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHPSELF']; ?>
<input type="hidden" name="emailTo" value="mst0ke@yahoo.com" />

  <p>&nbsp;</p>
<div id="title">CLASS SIGN UP </div>
<div class="row">
  <label class="col1">Full Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;</label>
<span class="col2"><input name="name" class="input" type="text" id="name" size="20" tabindex="1"  /></span>

</div>
<div class="row">
  <label class="col1">Address:&nbsp;&nbsp;</label>
  <span class="col2">
  <input name="address" class="input" type="text" id="address" size="25" tabindex="2" />
</span>
</div>
<div class="row"><label class="col1">City:&nbsp;&nbsp;</label>
<span class="col2"><input name="city" class="input" type="text" id="city" value="" size="2" tabindex="3" /></span>
</div>
<div class="row"><label class="col1">State:&nbsp;&nbsp;</label>
<span class="col2"><input name="state" class="input" type="text" id="state" value="" size="9" tabindex="4" /></span>
</div>
<div class="row"><label class="col1">Age:&nbsp;&nbsp;</label>
<span class="col2"><input name="age" class="input" type="text" id="age" value="" size="3" tabindex="5" /></span>
</div>
<div class="row"></div>

<div class="row"><label class="col1comment">Comment:&nbsp;&nbsp;</label>
<span class="col2comment"><textarea cols="20" class="textarea" rows="4" name="comment" id="comment" tabindex="6" ></textarea></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="submit">
  <input type="submit" name="emailSubmit" value="Submit" />
  </form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

ecntrc · #9 (**permalink**) Jul 7th, 2006, 19:26

i just noticed that it took out my email that i had there under the email to . is it complete?

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