Getting mailto to work

[Zaithe]

How do I get the action=mailto email@domain.com thingy to work? Have I typed it wrong? Also, I need to add that to the submit button so when people press submit it sends the information they put in the form to my E-Mail.Many Thanks.

[vchris]

Ok so you have a form that you want to submit the info to your email. In the action attribute of your form add this:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="mailto:myemail@domain.com">...

That's it!

[Zaithe]

Thanks =D, ill see if it works.

[pulpfiction]

Check out this link if you want to send out mails with subject lines or message etc...http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html

[Zaithe]

Ok so you have a form that you want to submit the info to your email. In the action attribute of your form add this:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="mailto:myemail@domain.com">...

That's it!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It doesn't work...when people click submit it comes up with the Outlook or whatever E-mail thing they use but when they press send, it doesn't send me a E-Mail...

[snowboard01]

you must manually go into outlook then hit send receive to send the email

[Zaithe]

you must manually go into outlook then hit send receive to send the email

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

But when you click "Submit!" OutLook pops-up so why do you have to do that?

[ben3001]

i tired this way along time ago and realised mailto doesnt work. you must use serverside scripting like phpbasic php form script can be found here with tutorialhttp://www.christian-web-masters.com/artic...ail-form-2.html

[Zaithe]

Hey thanks =DBut, how do I save stuff as .php? Do I open up NotePad and just save it as .php like you do with HTML and HTM files. Or, do I have to download something else?

[snowboard01]

what browser are u using some just add a que to outlook to be sent on send receive. some open outlook ask u to hit send then adds a que. and about 5 percent of people it will actually send u an email. without hitting send receive. and like no people actually use outllok so u cant count on the send receive button being hit.

[Little Goat]

search on google for free form processor.LG

[reportingsjr]

Go to the PHP forum here.. I think someone put a topic on this so they have the code to it ;-).

[reportingsjr]

Ok, im guessing your host has PHP support? (I hope so)anyways, first create two pages,home.php and mail.phpHere is the body coding for home.php:

<form action="mail.php" method="POST">Your email adress:<input type="text" name="thereemail"><br>Subject:<input type="text" name="subject"><br>Email:<br><input type="textarea" name="email" heigth="10" width="30"><br><input type="submit" value="send email!"><br></form>

Here is the coding for mail.php:

<?php$subject = $_POST['subject']$email = $_POST['email']$there_email = $_POST['thereemail'] mail("youremail@domain.com","$subject","$email","From:$there_email");?>

There are a few minor adjustments need like:in mail.php change "youremail@domain.com" to whatever your email adress isother thigns like that..

[lemonpi]

<a href="mailto:lemonygoodness@nonexistentpage.org.uk">blah</a>