getting form data?

[tybrown]

I just set up my website, www.communicanine.net, and have a form on it. I set it up to mail to my yahoo address. When the form is filled out it activates MS Outlook and uses that program to send the mail. Is it supposed to be like this? Is there another way to do a form? That seems tedious, and not everyone has MS Outlook. How would those people fill out a form? Please help me find a different way to do a form.
Thanks

[Andy128]

Re: getting form data?

ty
I would not use the mailto - I would use php to process the form and then mail the contents.

There are several avenues to do this. One would be Navaldesigns ABVFP form processor. This will create the form and the process script. You can read about it here: http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/for...processor.html

Then there is David's forms and scripts which you can find here:
http://youandmelinkup.info/forms/

Lastly - if you like to be more hands on learn it from scratch- you can try this tutorial:
http://www.netisopen.com/computer/TF001/phpmailto.html

Look it over and post back if you need help.

Cheers-

Andy

[tybrown]

Re: getting form data?

wow, great response! I will try those things and post back if I need more help. Thanks

[Bethers]

Re: getting form data?

FYI - when you use mailto: - it opens whatever is set in the user's computer - and most people never set anything and don't use the program that opens by default - in your case Outook. That's why I recommend people either just type it in for people to cut and paste or do the php form as you were just explained. Or do combinations of all the above :)