alienA2 Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Thanks for the help peeps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGallery Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 That's a simple form using 2 input fields and a textarea. In order to send the email you will have to use PHP or ASP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienA2 Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Are there examples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Yes, they're on the W3Schools website: http://w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienA2 Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 Hi Ingolme. I have two questions. One: where on the coding should you place the receiver's email address (i.e. the person who will receive the message/s)?Two: does the page need to be on a server in order to work correctly? If so, will a Linux server be sufficient to complete the process and make it work correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGallery Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 If you visited the link Ingolme posted, it's pretty clear where the receiver email goes. About your second question, every file of your website is on a server. A Linux server will be fine yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienA2 Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 I have tried using the syntax but it is not working... here is the code... <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html lang="en"><head><!-- This is the link to the external CSS file--><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/mystyle.css"><!-- This is the link to the external Javascript file--><script type="text/javascript" src="js/myjs.js"></script><title>Contact Frame</title></head><body id="iframe_spec" class="iframe_paragraphs"><h1 id="head1_spec">We Want To Hear From YOU!</h1><article> <p class="iframe_paragraphs">If you have a query, simply contact us via using our messaging system on this page. Alternatively, you may also send us an email to simfonika@gmail.com. Thank you.<br></article><table class="table_artist"><tr ><td><?phpif (isset($_REQUEST['email']))//if "email" is filled out, send email { //send email $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ; $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ; mail("simfonika@gmail.com", "$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>"; }?></td><td></td></tr></table></body></html> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGallery Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I see you just copied the code from the link, is mailform.php the name of the file you got the code on? If not change that to your file's name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienA2 Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 Hi Gallery. Tried to change the mailform.php to the file name. Just to let you know....i am not using a php file. It is html file. Would that be the problem? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsonesuk Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Well yea! php code only works in page with .php extension, and server that can process php server script. The complete html method, is when the user fills all the details, hit submit which causes the users email program to open with the details applied to a create new email, and you send it yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienA2 Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 Ok, I found a nice php contact file and html contact form. When the message is sent off, it executes Javascript code to say that the Messag was sent. Checked my email box, and I didnt receive anything yet. Check the attachements html-contact-form.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsonesuk Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Are you running this local server? if so have correctly setup the php.ini for sending email through your local server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienA2 Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 Are you asking if I am running this on my computer? If so, no. I am FTPing my html files and php file into another server which runs Linux. My site is up and running. But the contact page is not working (i.e. It does not send the message to the owner's sites's email address (mine) ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Is sendmail activated on the server that the files are running on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienA2 Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 According to the Server owner, yes it has. I am now receiving notifications from the server on my email that the message was sent. However, now the problem is that I am not seeing the actual message on my mails, just notifications that the message was sent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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