Can anyone help, need to create a basic webform for one of my single page html sites, just so visitors can contact me without me using my email address as a clicky, or having it within the code to avoid spam.
I just need boxes so the visitor adds their name, email, message etc and then just clicks submit and hey-presto, i receive it in my email with a subject title i choose.
Can anyone advise on the easiest way of doing this? I'm just using shared hosting.
Considering the websites i've built, i can't believe i don't know this!!!
<html>
<body>
<form action="MAILTO:someone@w3schools.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<h3>This form sends an e-mail to W3Schools.</h3>
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name"
value="yourname" size="20">
<br>
Mail:<br>
<input type="text" name="mail"
value="yourmail" size="20">
<br>
Comment:<br>
<input type="text" name="comment"
value="yourcomment" size="40">
<br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">
</form>
</body>
</html>
and link
HTML Forms and Input
Thanks mate, my only concern i guess with a html coded form is that the email address is visable to bots etc.
I've seen a .pl option, but not sure if thats any more protected?!?!
ian ..
drop me an email and i'll sort you out a php form script
chrisyates23 AT gmail dot com
I'm in the process of doing a small corporate site and need to do a similar contact type page with the ability to attach a document file too.
Is having the email in the html code a major issue?
Geoff
its not an issue unless you want tons of unwanted email
hmmmmm.....i suspect you have that the wrong way round cyates
So what is the best way of avoiding this? PHP?
E-mail Form Code (contact.php)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Email Form </title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="sendeail.php">
<!-- DO NOT change ANY of the php sections -->
<?php
$ipi = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
$httprefi = getenv ("HTTP_REFERER");
$httpagenti = getenv ("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
?>
<input type="hidden" name="ip" value="<?php echo $ipi ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpref" value="<?php echo $httprefi ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpagent" value="<?php echo $httpagenti ?>" />
Your Name: <br />
<input type="text" name="visitor" size="35" />
<br />
Your Email:<br />
<input type="text" name="visitormail" size="35" />
<br /> <br />
<br />
Attention:<br />
<select name="attn" size="1">
<option value=" Sales n Billing ">Sales n Billing </option>
<option value=" General Support ">General Support </option>
<option value=" Technical Support ">Technical Support </option>
<option value=" Webmaster ">Webmaster </option>
</select>
<br /><br />
Mail Message:
<br />
<textarea name="notes" rows="4" cols="40"></textarea>
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Send Mail" />
<br />
Free Code at: <a href="http://www.ibdhost.com/contact/">ibdhost.com/contact/</a>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Code for sendeail.php
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Sendemail Script</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Reminder: Add the link for the 'next page' (at the bottom) -->
<!-- Reminder: Change 'YourEmail' to Your real email -->
<?php
$ip = $_POST['ip'];
$httpref = $_POST['httpref'];
$httpagent = $_POST['httpagent'];
$visitor = $_POST['visitor'];
$visitormail = $_POST['visitormail'];
$notes = $_POST['notes'];
$attn = $_POST['attn'];
if (eregi('http:', $notes)) {
die ("Do NOT try that! ! ");
}
if(!$visitormail == "" && (!strstr($visitormail,"@") || !strstr($visitormail,".")))
{
echo "<h2>Use Back - Enter valid e-mail</h2>\n";
$badinput = "<h2>Feedback was NOT submitted</h2>\n";
echo $badinput;
die ("Go back! ! ");
}
if(empty($visitor) || empty($visitormail) || empty($notes )) {
echo "<h2>Use Back - fill in all fields</h2>\n";
die ("Use back! ! ");
}
$todayis = date("l, F j, Y, g:i a") ;
$attn = $attn ;
$subject = $attn;
$notes = stripcslashes($notes);
$message = " $todayis [EST] \n
Attention: $attn \n
Message: $notes \n
From: $visitor ($visitormail)\n
Additional Info : IP = $ip \n
Browser Info: $httpagent \n
Referral : $httpref \n
";
$from = "From: $visitormail\r\n";
mail("YourEmail", $subject, $message, $from);
?>
<p align="center">
Date: <?php echo $todayis ?>
<br />
Thank You : <?php echo $visitor ?> ( <?php echo $visitormail ?> )
<br />
Attention: <?php echo $attn ?>
<br />
Message:<br />
<?php $notesout = str_replace("\r", "<br/>", $notes);
echo $notesout; ?>
<br />
<?php echo $ip ?>
<br /><br />
<a href="contact.php"> Next Page </a>
</p>
</body>
</html>
Well done that man, thanks Cheapdvds (thx also to cyates for the offer).
The .php option works well, just tested it and can tailor that to suit, but does that get around the issue of visable email address code for bots? Would .pl offer a more secure coding option or can i change the CHMOD for the .php file to prevent access to view (i presume not otherwise the code won't run!)
easier still, stick with html but code your email address as a string of html characters - never yet met a spammer that could handle that.
eg: mailto:mick@we
view source to see what I mean.
regards
Mick
That doesn't make sense to me, your email address isn't complete?!?!
that's because it was late and I couldn't be bothered looking up all the html character codes to complete it.
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