ProgramPotato Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) Hello, In the tororials of w3chools it has a toutorial for form building and then sending through email. When the submit button is pressed, an email dialog box from wichever email program you are using poppes up. I would not like that to happen, I just want the email to be sent without the person being able to edit it to their will. Hopefully, there is a way! EDIT: I was using an html mailto instead of php. I don't know php. So I need help Edited May 23, 2012 by ProgramPotato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest So Called Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The site visitor's email client opens when they click your form? Are you sure you're not posting a mailto link? (mailto:somebody@example.com) I've written several contact forms and I've never had that happen even once. I was recently looking at the W3Schools mail form example and it works fine without any email client program opening. <html><body><?phpif (isset($_REQUEST['email']))//if "email" is filled out, send email { //send email $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ; $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ; mail("someone@example.com", $subject, $message, "From:" . $email); echo "Thank you for using our mail form"; }else//if "email" is not filled out, display the form { echo "<form method='post' action='mailform.php'> Email: <input name='email' type='text' /><br /> Subject: <input name='subject' type='text' /><br /> Message:<br /> <textarea name='message' rows='15' cols='40'> </textarea><br /> <input type='submit' /> </form>"; }?></body></html> http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birbal Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 mailto will always open your local email client .you have to submit your form to any server side pages and you have process it and send the email using any server side language. eg php has mail() function for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgramPotato Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 (edited) Thanks, but how do i get the ending "; } ?> out of my page? I think it's broken. Do i have to save it as a separate file? Edited May 23, 2012 by ProgramPotato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest So Called Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Thanks, but how do i get the ending "; } ?> out of my page? I think it's broken. Do i have to save it as a separate file?Not possible to answer that unless you post some code. Otherwise we have no idea what you're talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgramPotato Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 Not possible to answer that unless you post some code. Otherwise we have no idea what you're talking about.It's your code, the one you gave me. Try it in an html document. The last 6 characters don't get included in the php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Are you sure you're running that on a PHP server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgramPotato Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 Are you sure you're running that on a PHP server?I don't know php very well, so i have no idea if it's on a server or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 You need to upload the file to a server that supports PHP. You can't run this from your desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgramPotato Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 (edited) You need to upload the file to a server that supports PHP. You can't run this from your desktop.thank you. So do you mean after i host my website i will be able to use php? Edited May 23, 2012 by ProgramPotato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest So Called Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 EDIT: I was using an html mailto instead of php. I don't know php. So I need helpOkay, now there's enough information to answer your question. You can't do what you want without server side scripts. The link you're using automatically opens the visitor's email client to allow them to send an email to your email address. Once that happens they can send anything they want. You threw me off when you said email form. There aren't any HTML-only email forms. You need a server side script to process them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Okay, now there's enough information to answer your question. You can't do what you want without server side scripts. The link you're using automatically opens the visitor's email client to allow them to send an email to your email address. Once that happens they can send anything they want. You threw me off when you said email form. There aren't any HTML-only email forms. You need a server side script to process them.You're able to use "mailto:" as the action attribute of a form, which will open the e-mail client and put some data into the subject, to and body fields. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgramPotato Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 You're able to use "mailto:" as the action attribute of a form, which will open the e-mail client and put some data into the subject, to and body fields. Okay, now there's enough information to answer your question. You can't do what you want without server side scripts. The link you're using automatically opens the visitor's email client to allow them to send an email to your email address. Once that happens they can send anything they want. You threw me off when you said email form. There aren't any HTML-only email forms. You need a server side script to process them. I understand this. That is what i did originally, but I don't want it to open an email, i want to just send the form to my email with whatever they entered in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eTianbun Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 It doesn't work that way, you need (let say) a php script to perform that action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birbal Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 So do you mean after i host my website i will be able to use php?you can use your host or you can install a server and php on your pc. you can use WAMP,MAMP,LAMP which is package of php,mysql,apache and others for windows,mac,linux respectively. if you want to send the mail from your local server you need a email server in your localhost which you may need to configure to get it working. I use XAMPP which comes with email server so i am not sure wamp,lamp.,mamp comes with email server or not. .your host is probably installed and configured email server to send emails already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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