Contact form problem.. Followed tutorial but can't get it to work.

I found this link in a thread on here on how to make a contact page which is http://dreamweaverspot.com/adobe-dreamweaver-tutorial-contact-forms/ ... I've done everything as says, it LOOKS ok on the page, but absolutely nothing happens when I hit submit.. Not even an error page, it just doesn't do anything..

www.eileenbruce.com/contact.html .. Thats the page I'm trying to do it on, can anyone give me any clues as to what I've done wrong?

 

Make sure you have the file installed referred to in form action=
and that the form field names correspond with the names in this file
and that the email component named in this file is installed on the server.

 

Could you elaborate a bit and dumb it down for someone who has no idea what they're doing?

When you say installed on the server, does it just need to be placed in the sa,e folder as my public html files? Or does it need to be "installed" some how?

The form action= name is the same, so it must be something else I've done.

 

He means also that each input, which should have a name, is the same as the names used in your form-processing-program.

<input type="text" name="foo" id="bar" value="lalalala">

that input's information had better be called "foo" in your program.

Yeah having the program in the same folder as the HTML (or somewhere else but then with an appropriate path to it in the html... so long as the HTML document knows where to go for that program) is the idea. These are the easiest things to start looking for when a form doesn't work. When I can't see images I've placed, first thing I do is check the path, and then the permissions (am I allowed to even see the image, when I do have the right path?).

 

remove </form> from the below mentioned place and the form should start working

 

Ohh I didn't even see that! I'll give it a go.

 

Bobby, thank you so much!! It works now, but at the bottom of the email it says "submit: submit" in the body of the email, but I can deal with that I guess, its better then it not working So thank you for spotting that

Actually, I have another question.. In that contact form, it goes to a page that says "thank you.." etc.. Can I change that page, to a thank you page of my own to match my site, or remove it all together and just redirect straight to home?

 

You are welcome!

 

if there's a name on the submit, that might be why submit:submit is showing? I needed someone to explain to me once that everything with a name gets sent to the form... so no names on submits, and a few other things. My best guess.

 

Thanks I'll have a look.

 

Make a thank you page of your own and redirect it to that page, redirecting to home page would not be a good idea.

 

I ended up doing that earlier, thanks Everythings working fine now, thank you both for your help