Coding Submit Button on a Contact Form

[Michael A Crider]

on my site, I've created a contact form and am having trouble getting the submit button to dump the message in my inbox. Any suggestions?

[PLS]

The submit button itself doesn't do anything other than indicate that the form action should be processed. If your form isn't working, it's going to be a problem either with the script or the action in the form tag.

[mkrotchie]

Took a peek at the source code.. and I must be way behind the times.. because I'd never seen this kind of stuff before:

<form action=--WEBBOT-SELF-- method=post>
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" s-email-address="http://webmail.kw.com/horde3/imp/mailbox.php?nocache=3g146ie0cqrk"
s-email-format="TEXT/PRE" b-email-label-fields="TRUE"
s-email-Subject="CypressTexasRealEstateSite.com Form Response" s-builtin-fields="Date Time"
b-email-subject-from-field="FALSE"-->

Did you use Office to do your site?

[BrandonSternfield]

They are correct. The actual submit button just tells the form it's done.

It's the action part of the form tag that is important. Are you using php? Java? etc.

If your host lets you use the php mail() function (godaddy disables it for security reasons), you can find tons of free scripts online that use it.

[Michael A Crider]

Thanks for the info guys it is all very helpful for I am new at this. I am using office to make the form. I am also using godaddy to host the site.

Under the form properties I am selecting "send data to me in my email"

Where it asks for my email address I've tried entering mcrider@kw.com, which didn't work. Then I've tried the actual http while in my inbox.

not sure where to go from here. I'll go to do daddy to see if I can find some help, and any suggestions from y'all would be great.

Thanks for the interest in helping me

[BrandonSternfield]

I called godaddy up to work on mine too Turns out I spent over a week trying to get mail() to work and I never made sure it was enabled.

Godaddy actually has a emailform set up for you After logging into your godaddy account on their main page, go to 'my account'. Then go to 'hosting account list'. Open the control panel for your site. Under the content tab, there should be 'form mail'. Simply put your email in there, and update.

Check your files (via ftp, or however you do it) and there should be something like gdform.asp or something along the lines. Something YOU didn't make. In your form, for the action, put that file name

They wrote it for you to do it. About the only thing I actually like about godaddy.

[Michael A Crider]

Thanks Brandon... huge help

[BrandonSternfield]

It was annoying for me to work with So I figured since I went through all the hard work on the phone with them, why not pass it along?

[ChiliPepperWeb]

If you can use CGI scripts, I've been using NMS Formmail from Sourceforge for a long time with good results:

http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml

It's a more secure replacement for the old formmail script from Matt's Script Archive that's still used everywhere. I've seen that some hosts actually have the Matt's version built into their system as their "formmail" in the control panel, although I don't know if that's what GoDaddy uses or something else similar. The NMS script was written because Matt's was so easy for spambots to hijack.

[Michael A Crider]

I like what I saw on the website you gave for nms... but how do I actually install so that I can start using? Again... very new at this.