Website submit forms with email and db usage.

[SephYuyX]

Coding is the last thing I enjoy doing, I can understand html and other languages, I can read and minipulate them ok, but I cant make one from scratch, but I need to make a website form.

Ive tried looking around on the web for some form templates, but I cant find any, why bother reinventing the wheel when it's a silly submit form and every website uses one. I could easily just rip thew source off of a page, but sometimes it doesnt work without the other files, and usually they are protected.


What I want is a somewhat simple submit form, Name, address, phone, email, comments, the basic stuff, and I want that info to them be emailed to me after it's submitted. A bonus would be to have that form data be sent to a MS Access file as well (dont feel like dealing with sql, etc).

I found this site http://www.stardeveloper.com/articles/d ... 101&page=1 which conatins a nice .zip file ready to use, but lacks an email function.

Does anyone know of a good website that provides templates for forms, or does anyone have something like this they wanna share?

Thanks.

[souleman]

The link you provided does everything in ASP. Not sure if thats what you want or not.

If you just want to have the form emailed to you, the easiest (and probably least reliable) way is with mailto

<form action="mailto:[email protected]" method="POST" enctype="text/plain">

Name: <input type="text" size="15" maxlength="25">

Address: <input type ="text" size="15" maxlength="30">

Comments: <input type="text" size="50" maxlength="255">




<input type="image" src="submitbutton.gif" alt="Submit"> 

</form>

For putting in a database, you will have to use asp, php, etc. You could use the link you posted, then do a google search on "asp email form" but it is dependant on the mail server you are using. Just add whatever code is needed based on your server.

[SephYuyX]

The only bad part about mailto (aside from the obviousness) is that it assumes the person trying to submit something uses outlook/express; generally not a problem since this is aimed at business type people, and most do, but still leaves lots of holes. Not sure how it would act if a web email is your default email program though. WOuld just be like sending a normal email, kind of pointless for a contact form.

ASP is fine, like I said, I may not be able to make something from scratch, but I can minipulate it with some effort, also the webserver here is iis6 with adosys support so it can handle asp files and calls.

I found this really nice generator http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/conta ... /index.htm but it uses the old adonts protocol and a lot of the calls it uses wont work on IE6 or IIS5+