Ahh! Curse You Yahoo!!

[gamemaster1432]

I have a HTML question. I was experimenting with form code to send to a email address, and when I send the information, it opens up yahoo mail at the attachment screen, whats up with that??? is it because i have a yahoo toolbar or something?


"<form name="test" action="mailto:yugi4kp@hotmail.com" method="post" name="test">
<input type="text" name="Test" size="30" maxlength="256">"


if you can get it to work, please tell me!

[Neo]

That just means its going to open the persons email and then they have to send it themselves (manually).

For what you want to do you'll need a script of some sort. ie: I used a sendmail type function through php with my own host (it supports it). You can't just specify an email have it automatically send it that way =P

-Kupa

[gamemaster1432]

i figured out what was the yahoo problem, but what kind of script would i need? Javascript or something else. i have this editor called AceHTML freeware and thats what im using, but how could i make a script for that?

[AJ]

http://www.mycontactform.com/

you have to have a service that's handling the actual mailing aspect. easiest to just use their services.

[bluemicrobyte]

To help you understand a little bit about how it works, the data a user enters into a form needs to be sent to a script that resides on your web server -- it can't simply be emailed magically. This script takes in the information and then "processes" it -- you can have it do anything you want with the information, and what you're trying to do is have it email you the information.

The site AJ linked to will work just fine, but if you ever need to have your own mail script on your server then there's a script called php formmail -- search for it on google, or if you can't find it I can always send you my copy.

(PS: Your web server needs to support PHP scripts (or another language) in order to use a script to process information submitted in a form)

[gamemaster1432]

dang, I thought I would be able to use xanga to do something like that, on my site, www.xanga.com/gamemaster1432 , I have a box that you rate the site, and it would send me a e-mail, so I can update it myself since I dont think my site is a php or asp or something along those lines. Thats why I need a script that automatically sends the information without anyone having to use their own e-mails. I dont have a server or anything, I was going to use xanga's server (kinda sorta)