hi everyone! in need of some help with a contact form for my family business

[stebeck]

Hi everyone,
im new to the site and to be honest quite a noob at web designing

iv knocked up a site for my families business and have stumbled at the last hurdle, which is why im after some professional guidance off you skilled designers with the contact form of the website

in design view i have the contact form all in place but i am really struggling in how to set up in code the form so once entered it will send to my email address

below is the code to my form on the site

Any help what so ever would be much apreciated and i thank you in advance for your time in helping this noob

< !-- content -->
<article id="content">
<div class="wrapper">
<section class="col1">
<h2 class="under">Contact The Sales Team</h2>
<p>*Contact form currently under construction please email directly*</p>
<form id="ContactForm" method="post">
<div>
<div class="wrapper">
<span>Your Name:</span>
<input type="text" class="input" >
</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<span>Your City:</span>
<input type="text" class="input" >
</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<span>Your E-mail:</span>
<input type="text" class="input" >
</div>
<div class="textarea_box">
<span>Your Message:</span>
<textarea name="textarea" cols="1" rows="1"></textarea>
</div><a href="#" onClick="document.getElementById('ContactForm').su bmit()">Send</a><a href="#" onClick="document.getElementById('ContactForm').re set()">Clear</a>
</div>
</form>

 

[Corrosive]

HTML won't send an email, you will need a 'form2mail' script that uses an appropriate programming language, usually (but not always) PHP. Try somewhere like Hot Scripts - The net's largest PHP, CGI, Perl, JavaScript and ASP script collection and resource web portal. for some good examples. Otherwise check with your hosting company as they can often provide a suite of simple scripts for things like this and they will generally comply with the host's security policies. Hope that helps.

 

[Katedesign]

This could prove a useful site! I am trying to get to grips with php and whilst I have got something working on a client's site it's not perfect. Faffing about with some more scripts may help. I always seem to want to do something beyond my knowledge....

 

[Corrosive]

Hi Kate, if you want to learn PHP then this set of articles is a nice place to start; DevZone » PHP 101 (part 1): Down the Rabbit Hole it's got some good humour and some accessible demos for you to follow from the outset. If you ever want one-on-one PHP lessons then chat to my mate Dave Jackson at Codezenith; codezenith | PHP programming made easy. Tell him Toby sent you :icon_smile:

 

[Katedesign]

I don't want to learn it...but maybe I need to (a bit!)

 

[Corrosive]

I don't want to learn it...but maybe I need to (a bit!)

Lol, you have to be a 'special' kind of person to want to learn a programming language. I have a reasonable grasp of it, enough to be dangerous anyway but more out of necessity than any desire to live under a rock and be a programmer!

 

[RiseResolution]

Lol, you have to be a 'special' kind of person to want to learn a programming language. I have a reasonable grasp of it, enough to be dangerous anyway but more out of necessity than any desire to live under a rock and be a programmer!

I will have you know I have a nice humble abode under my rock!!

Stebeck check out the PHP bult in function mail();

It makes sending emails pretty easy although you need to get the headers right (plenty of examples online).

You can detect whether the form has been submitted using

if(isset($_POST["name_of_field"]))
{

}

isset is a built in function that returns if a 'variable' exists. It is your friend :icon_cheers:

This is the simplist way of doing it... there are nicer ways such as using AJAX etc but I don't want to confuse you. Not yet.

 

[RiseResolution]

Katedesign programming can be really fun

It does take a certain type of person though I agree. :crazy:

Do you like taking things apart and seeing how they work?

 

[Tony Hardy]

I just want to code websites

 

[RiseResolution]

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