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Re: Dreamweaver email forms

Feb 6th, 2007

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Originally Posted by bkendall

your form page will be just like any other page except that it will have form tags
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<form name="form1" id="form1" method="post" action="">
  Field Name: 
  <input name="field name" type="text" id="field name" />
</form>
<form name="form1" id="form1" method="post" action=""> Field Name: <input name="field name" type="text" id="field name" /> </form>
the action=''''> is where you would need to use a langauge such as php which might look like this:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact Form</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 
   content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<?php
   if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] != 'POST'){
      $me = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
?>
   <form name="form1" method="post"
         action="<?php echo $me;?>">
      <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
         <tr>
            <td>Name:</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="Name"></td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>Subject</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="Subject"></td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td valign="top">Message:</td>
            <td><textarea name="MsgBody"></textarea></td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td><input type="submit" name="Submit"
               value="Send"></td>
         </tr>
      </table>
   </form>
<?php
   } else {
      error_reporting(0);
      $recipient = 'me@myaddress.com';
      $subject = stripslashes($_POST['Subject']);
      $from = stripslashes($_POST['Name']);
      $msg = "Message from: $from\n\n".stripslashes($_POST['MsgBody']);
      if (mail($recipient, $subject, $msg))
         echo nl2br("<b>Message Sent:</b>
         To: $recipient
         Subject: $subject
         Message:
         $msg");
      else
         echo "Message failed to send";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Contact Form</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <?php if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] != 'POST'){ $me = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> <form name="form1" method="post" action="<?php echo $me;?>"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td>Name:</td> <td><input type="text" name="Name"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Subject</td> <td><input type="text" name="Subject"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">Message:</td> <td><textarea name="MsgBody"></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send"></td> </tr> </table> </form> <?php } else { error_reporting(0); $recipient = 'me@myaddress.com'; $subject = stripslashes($_POST['Subject']); $from = stripslashes($_POST['Name']); $msg = "Message from: $from\n\n".stripslashes($_POST['MsgBody']); if (mail($recipient, $subject, $msg)) echo nl2br("<b>Message Sent:</b> To: $recipient Subject: $subject Message: $msg"); else echo "Message failed to send"; } ?> </body> </html>
You will need to check if you have access to a php server if not there are other methods that you can use. If all else fails you can send it via javascript, which is a dirty way to do it but will work.

This was the best help. In a matter of a few minutes I had this email form up and running inside a table on my site. Thanks!

I do have a ? though. Is it possible to somehow encrypt or 'hide' the email address that receives the form? (So it does not get crawled and spammed)

Thanks again!

Sandy