Forms

[ssahl]

I'm trying to use a Forms page that will send 4 fields of data to an email address.
like name, phone, email
very simple
I thought I had everything setup right, but on the site, when you click on the submit button it brings up 'page cannot be found' with the added address to domain
--WEBBOT-SELF--

does this mean I need to setup some kind of extension on the server?

[ssahl]

Ok, I now see that the problem is because Microsoft FrontPage extensions are not installed on the server, which is unix based so I have a problem. What I'm trying to do is to have a Forms page that will take 4 text entry's and email that information to an email address. Can someone help me out and tell me what would be some good software that I can use to do this? I'm pretty sure that I can setup CGI on the server, and the information from the Forms page is very simple, name, age, phone, email.
If there is an easier way to do this aside from using CGI I'm open for other suggestions too. I'm no super webmaster, but I wouldnt think this would be to hard to do. I'd like to have this done by monday morning so my boss isnt mad at me! So please HELP!
and thanks in advance.

[mairving]

Here is a nice AJAX version.

[ssahl]

ok, I looked at it, there is almost nothing for help/documentation on that.
The only thing is says is to upload the unzipped directory to your website, and change 4 lines in each of the 2 scripts.

Me being the noob that I am I need more help then that! LOL

first question

Since it looks like ajax uses php
how can I tell if my ftp server has php installed/enabled

the only directory's on the server are the 2 for each domain that it's hosting, and one more 'apache2-default'

then another thats not really a directory that says 'analog'

If php is not already on the server and needs to be installed/enabled physically while at the server, then I have no more questions till monday.

[ssahl]

ok, the server has the following after this directory

/usr/share

php5
perl5
perl
mailx

then in this directory

/usr/share/perl/5.8.8

there are several other directory's, like

CGI
Class
PerlIO
Search
User
Text
File

will the ajaxContact still work, would I have to change the .php to .php5
where should I put the unzipped ajaxContact.zip directory?

I was also looking at a program called form2emal.net script which uses a form.htm page and also a thankyou.htm page along with the form2email.pl file

I think I can probably manage editing the script file, but where would I put the above 3 files? (the 2 .htm pages and the .pl script file)

Man, I hate to sound stupid, but am I getting close?

It's not that I cant figure this all out, I'm not so old that I cant learn new things LOL

It's just that I cant learn it fast enough! Fast enough for my boss anyway.

[ssahl]

whew! nevermind, I finally got it working. Thanks anyway, I was able to get it working, so now all is well.
at least tell next week when they want me to add some streaming video or something like that.
LOL

[hartken]

Originally Posted by ssahl Ok, I now see that the problem is because Microsoft FrontPage extensions are not installed on the server, which is unix based so I have a problem. What I'm trying to do is to have a Forms page that will take 4 text entry's and email that information to an email address. Can someone help me out and tell me what would be some good software that I can use to do this? I'm pretty sure that I can setup CGI on the server, and the information from the Forms page is very simple, name, age, phone, email. If there is an easier way to do this aside from using CGI I'm open for other suggestions too. I'm no super webmaster, but I wouldnt think this would be to hard to do. I'd like to have this done by monday morning so my boss isnt mad at me! So please HELP! and thanks in advance.

It is a easy fix in PHP. But you you will need to update it down the line if you start getting hit with spam.

HTML file:

<form action="mail.php">
<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="text" name="address">
<input type="text" name="email">
<input type="text" name="phone">
</form>

Seperate PHP file called "mail.php"

PHP Code:

<?php
$name=$_POST['name'];
$address=$_POST[address];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$phone=$_POST['phone'];

$to="youremail@server.com";
$subject="New Mail from Site!";
$message=$name.' '.$address.' '.$email.' '.$phone;


mail($to,$subject, $message);
?>

If you need more help, email me at bernard_web@hotmail.com.