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mattymule

2005-01-09, 11:14 pm

I am a beginner with Macromedia and I have a webpage on my website that has an
area where clients will input there information such as first and last name,
address etc. How do I link this information to my companies email so when the
potential clients hit the submit button, there information will be sent to me
via email?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

SnakEyez

2005-01-09, 11:14 pm

I would say the best way is to set up formmail which can be found at
www.scriptarchive.com. This formmail is also the same one that is packaged
with CPanel. If you are looking for a script to do a bit more (ie: store info
in a database, etc), then I would consider looking at hotscripts.com for a mail
script using the language available on your server (ie: PHP, ASP, JSP,
CGI/Perl, etc).

Murray *TMM*

2005-01-10, 12:15 pm

There are two basic ways to process form data -

1. Use mailto:name@domain.com as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c) formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d) redirect the visitor
to some ending page

Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on their computer -
this eliminates public computers - and on that email client responding to
the mailto call. It is not possible to use this method *and* send the
visitor to a
thank you page as well.

Method 2 is the preferred method, since it eliminates the problems of method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).

SnakEyes has more info for you in his post.

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"mattymule" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I am a beginner with Macromedia and I have a webpage on my website that has
>an
> area where clients will input there information such as first and last
> name,
> address etc. How do I link this information to my companies email so when
> the
> potential clients hit the submit button, there information will be sent to
> me
> via email?
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>

SnakEyez

2005-01-14, 7:16 pm