Form to Email Info

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Howdy All,

I've only delved into Web Development a little bit. I generally use Dreamweaver (please no flames on that). I can create a form to gather information, but I'd like to then e-mail that form to a pre-determined address.

What kind of progamming language do I need to learn in order to do this? ASP? PHP?

Thanks!

Godspeed,
Ed

[Jill]

There are a ton of free form scripts available online that should do the trick for you.

[Michael Chui]

As Jill says, nearly every web-based language out there has an in-built function to let you send emails. Here's a PHP example.

form.html

<form action="email.php" method="post">
<textarea rows="5" cols="40" name="msg">Text goes here</textarea>
<input type="submit">
</form>

email.php

<?php

mail("someone@example.com", "Email From the Form", $_POST['msg']);

?>Thanks for your email. Have a nice day.

[escapee]

You may also find the anti hack function of tamingthebeast helpful . I use it to stop the hackers from insering malicious code into the form .

[boris]

FormMail is pretty good PHP script in a single file to do just that:

Jack's Scripts: Formmail.php