Question about forms

I was wondering how you get a form to send to your email without opening outlook. Can anyone tell me the code for this. Does it require php. I know that is an option because that is what my designer did for my site but is there a way to do it through html?

 

There is no way through HTML to do it as HTML is static but what you require is a sendmail script.

This can be done with CGI, PHP, ASP, .Net, CFM, JSP or any other serverside scripting language/ framework that I have forgotten. You need to check which your webhost supports and then get a free script to do the necessary

 

this one is decent I tried it out:

http://www.emailmeform.com/

can blend with your site too

 

If you make a form, then make the inputs such as, your email, then your message. You can do something like the following...

mail("youremailhere@w/e.com","Subject","$_POST[message]","From: $_POST[email] r/n/");

Code (markup):

That would work without opening an outlook thing, hopefully that is what you were looking for...

 

HTML is a structural markup language and as such is incapable of processing form data (though it can define the structure of the forms just fine). You're going to need a server-side programming language (and it has to be installed on your server in order to use it).

If you're going to use PHP, I suggest you take a strong look at these two:
http://www.dustindiaz.com/ajax-contact-form
http://green-beast.com/blog/?page_id=71

 

Here is an easy PHP tutorial on how to do it - you dont need to know PHP, just follow the guide its very easy.

 

Which unfortunately doesn't cover any form of session ID's or cookie securities, much less referrer meaning anyone and their cousin could hijack it for spamming uses... Worse, since it uses _REQUEST you could feed it post or get... Security hell.

I would avoid that except as a stepping stone in learning - for deploying live there's a lot of other stuff that really should be in there unless you want spammers 'borrowing' your server.