Forms for the Beginner.

[Steatf]

Hi All,

Me again, the nuisance..

I have been playing with Jotform for forms for my XWD development and feel that I would like to manage my forms and not involve outside suppliers.

I seem to remember some while ago seeing some Javascript that just took the info and emailed it as delimited text.

Could any of you point me to past threads or sites that you have found useful for this..

By the way I was pointed to Jotform by this Forum and it was wonderful advice as usual.. Thank you all for your help and advice.

Kind Regards... Steve

[zaphodeist]

Hi Steve

If you just want a simple, basic info form have a look at this. You put the form into a page via the placeholder and you can use html for formatting the text etc. The php doc goes in the same upload folder as your page. Responses get mailed to one or more addresses

[razzle0146]

Steve,

Just wanted top let you know that CoffeCup Form Builder is a great tool for building forms, then just use a placeholder and thats it.. Simple...

Hope this helps...

[steve.ledger]

John's link (neodeist) to the simple PHP mailer works well and is 'tweakable'.

Attached as a copy'n'paste placeholder and includes the code to save as a .php file.

Details inside

*Note: Your server must support PHP for this form to work.

[akubbeng]

Thanks for sharing, John and Steve.

That looks like an attractive, little form that's gonna be useful to a lot of people.

[Boy]

Thanks for the PHP mailer. With such a script, would it be possible to also include an option to attach a file (such as a .jpg) to the email? I understand that this would also need to include a "Browse" function to be able to point to the file in order for it to be uploaded.

[Jimi King]

I'm another Coffee Cup fan (after seeing it recommended on here).

It's very versatile, spam resisant and also has some fancy extras like saving to databases and file attachments too.

[Steatf]

Thanks Guys,

The knowledge here never ceases to amaze me. One day I hope I can help people as well..

Kind Regards... Steve

[jerfud]

I did what you said to do, Copy, pasted and uploaded mailer.php but I see nothing on my site at the bottom and it doesnt show up in Web Designer Preview...thats a problem...
if i cant get it maybe ill use coffee cup

thanks
Jerry

[jerfud]

I got it,
for some reason, the program wasnt saving the file over the old one, and when I did preview it didnt refresh, I just had to restart and it worked fine (small bug)