holmedwa04 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 So, can I just change the form inside it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 This form, to let visitors send messages to the owner of the site, uses mailto: at its action. That means, the mail setup program (the one with which you actually send the message) like Outlook Express, will get called.Replacing that mailto: by a PHP processor file like this: send_mail.php means the processor will send the mail instead of Outlook. And besides that, it WILL work in all browsers, as the mailto command doesn't. With php, you can specify the to address, the from, reply to, cc and bcc, subject and message. With the mailto command, you can't. You can try, but only Hotmail (as far as I know) recognises those. Like you specified the subject in the form you posted Gmail doesn't use that addition to the mailto command. But PHP can do it all by itself, I can give you a processor file that has the form in itself, here it is, for example So you have to have something soecial about the host so they "Support PHP" or something, copy that big chunk of code into the HTML file and it will work?...??? Read my EDIT on my last post...Also, right now I just tried sending it and when I clicked on "Submit", an alert box poped up that said:"This form is beging submitted using e-mail.Submitting this form will reveal your e-mail address to the recipient, and will send the data without encrypting it for privacy.You may continue or cancel this submission."What's this all about? Then, when I clicked OK, an error box came up that said:"Personal Folders:This information service has not been configured. Select an existing file to configure, or type the name of a new file to create."????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holmedwa04 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 So you have to have something soecial about the host so they "Support PHP" or something, copy that big chunk of code into the HTML file and it will work?...??? Read my EDIT on my last post...Did you read the second post on the other topic, the disadvantages are listed there.Ah yes, you may want to put something on there warning visiters, it isent a problem, it is just saying it is trying to send an email on their behalf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 Did you read the second post on the other topic, the disadvantages are listed there.Ah yes, you may want to put something on there warning visiters, it isent a problem, it is just saying it is trying to send an email on their behalf.OK, but is there ANY way to get rid of it? It doesn't look very "nice"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holmedwa04 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 OK, but is there ANY way to get rid of it? It doesn't look very "nice"... No, I dont think so, unless you use PHP like dan said, im just trying to work it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 No, I dont think so, unless you use PHP like dan said, im just trying to work it out OK then, but hat did it mean by "This e-mail is not encrypted" or whatever? Can you "Encrypt" it somehow?LOL! This topic's going to be about 10 pages by the time we get this all figured out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holmedwa04 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Sorry, I haven't a clue, this really is as far as my knowledge on proccessing forms goes, and it took me about 2 weeks to get the proccessing codes as it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 This form, to let visitors send messages to the owner of the site, uses mailto: at its action. That means, the mail setup program (the one with which you actually send the message) like Outlook Express, will get called.Replacing that mailto: by a PHP processor file like this: send_mail.php means the processor will send the mail instead of Outlook. And besides that, it WILL work in all browsers, as the mailto command doesn't. With php, you can specify the to address, the from, reply to, cc and bcc, subject and message. With the mailto command, you can't. You can try, but only Hotmail (as far as I know) recognises those. Like you specified the subject in the form you posted Gmail doesn't use that addition to the mailto command. But PHP can do it all by itself, I can give you a processor file that has the form in itself, here it is, for example So, I think that the web-host supports PHP, but how do I put that chuck of code into a file and get to work the way I want it to? I've never used .PHP before... I don't even know what I'm talking about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holmedwa04 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Neither do I, have to wait till dan replys.Gee, I never realised, im going to have to change my signature, it looks so bland, and to think of it, think of all I could put in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack McKalling Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 All we need is knowledge about PHP. Is is quite difficult code for beginners, but that is why I want tis topic moved into the PHP forum of this board.I can help you with the whole code I posted above, but you should firstly consider turning over to PHP, and take some lessons, tutorials of your own. You would uinderstand this processor much better :)For the record, you only need to create a new file with Notepad with the full code I posted, and name it to whatever you like with extension .php No form needed, the one that is inside will do just fine, though you may edit it ofcource, but be carefull to let the code intact Therefor I suggest you take the PHp tutorial. (and to the mods: please move this topic )[*Edit:] Gee, I never realised, im going to have to change my signature, it looks so bland, and to think of it, think of all I could put in there.Please read the rules before you fill your signature, and I suggest LaLaLa do so too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holmedwa04 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Kk, but when I save it as .php, it wont open in IE? Only Dreamweaver, do I need to select IE from the list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 Where is the "Rules" section for this whole forum? Just wondering... I'll be back later (about 4 hours), I'm getting off soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack McKalling Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 The rules are VERY noticable as announcements at the top of EVERY forum :)You must upload PHP files, they can't be opened by any browser. The server with its PHP software installation must process the code in your files, so it would return only output to your browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 All we need is knowledge about PHP. Is is quite difficult code for beginners, but that is why I want tis topic moved into the PHP forum of this board.I can help you with the whole code I posted above, but you should firstly consider turning over to PHP, and take some lessons, tutorials of your own. You would uinderstand this processor much better :)For the record, you only need to create a new file with Notepad with the full code I posted, and name it to whatever you like with extension .php No form needed, the one that is inside will do just fine, though you may edit it ofcource, but be carefull to let the code intact Therefor I suggest you take the PHp tutorial. (and to the mods: please move this topic )[*Edit:]Please read the rules before you fill your signature, and I suggest LaLaLa do so too OK, I see what you mean now, I'm going to work on re-sizing it as soon as I get back so its 300x150px.Seems like that's awfully small, though... Rgiht now it's exactly 375x235 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack McKalling Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 I know, I had my problems resizing mine too, but if you're really stuck, ask aspnetguy to do it for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holmedwa04 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Is mine okay at the moment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott100 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 So, I think that the web-host supports PHP, but how do I put that chuck of code into a file and get to work the way I want it to? I've never used .PHP before... I don't even know what I'm talking about!PHP form processing is easier than you think, the site has an easy to grasp example: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.aspThen an example of sending an email: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 PHP form processing is easier than you think, the site has an easy to grasp example: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.aspThen an example of sending an email: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp Ok, I'll look into that ASAP... or later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reportingsjr Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 P.S. Does anyone have a clue what Runescape is? Rune H.Q.? Well, this post really has nothing to do with this topic, he just aked it a while ago lol. I have quite the clue what runescape is, ive played it since about the week or two after it came out . I used to use tip.it for most of my needs and rune hq for its item database. Look me up, I stopped playing about 1-1 and a half years ago so im not exactly the best =[ (I used to be ranked like under 100k overall, but now im at over 200k overall, plus my fishing and cooking used to be around 30k each, now over 100k :'( I compared my user to yours and mine has everything better than yours but firemaking, which is above by 1 level ). Sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 7, 2006 Author Share Posted September 7, 2006 Will the moderaters delete this topic after a few weeks of no one replying to it or what? Will it just get stacked at the end of the forum topic lists? Just wondering : ) Also, how do you change the color of a link in HTML (NOT with styles, though!)?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Will the moderaters delete this topic after a few weeks of no one replying to it or what? Will it just get stacked at the end of the forum topic lists? Just wondering : ) Also, how do you change the color of a link in HTML (NOT with styles, though!)?With styles. Anything else will not validate. That's exactly what styles are for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 With styles. Anything else will not validate. That's exactly what styles are for.OK, but I don't care if it "Validates" or not, I just want to know how to do it in plain old HTML code, again WITHOUT using styles! Something to do with the "<link>", "<vlink>", and "<alink>" tags... So will someone please give me the answer I need? I've done it before so I know that it is possible, I just forgot! Please help...LaLaLa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack McKalling Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 There might be some attributes for that (no elements but attributes), but forget them.You should learn styles, using those attributes has no advantage over styles at all.If you still want to use deprecated ways of styling, everything that is deprecated can be found here:http://dhost.info/profmemberone/Pages/deprecated.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott100 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 OK, but I don't care if it "Validates" or not, I just want to know how to do it in plain old HTML code, again WITHOUT using styles! Something to do with the "<link>", "<vlink>", and "<alink>" tags... So will someone please give me the answer I need? I've done it before so I know that it is possible, I just forgot! Please help...LaLaLa <BODY TEXT="#FFFFFF" LINK="#FFFF00" VLINK="#33FF33" ALINK="#FF0000" BGCOLOR="#000000">Something like thatAnd no the topic wont get deleted, it just gets moved down the page as new posts appear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLaLa Posted September 9, 2006 Author Share Posted September 9, 2006 <BODY TEXT="#FFFFFF" LINK="#FFFF00" VLINK="#33FF33" ALINK="#FF0000" BGCOLOR="#000000">Something like thatAnd no the topic wont get deleted, it just gets moved down the page as new posts appear.Thank you... And you all will just have to deal with the fact that I'm not using stlyes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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