Send Form through Email
 

Hello, I'm making somethign and it's like a contact form and when they clikc submit i need it to send the form to specifed email without lanuching outtlook like with mailto:blah@blah.com

Im just wabntign whren they clikc Submit ZAP its in my email.

To avoid having the user's mail user agent send the form, you need to have their browser send it via HTTP:


Of course, that's the easy part. The more tricky part is that /path/to/cgi/cgiscript.pl is just an example - you need a CGI script or other server-side code to actually send the email. You can send emails from virtually any server-side scripting technology; a popular method is to use the sendmail command at the server side, though beware of security problems with shelling out from a CGI using data you've taken from a user-submitted form. Personally, I write my CGI scripts in Tcl and use the mime and smtp packages to send mail if I have to.

There are various form to mail scripts available - see what languages and/or server side technologies your hosting supports and see if one exists - ideally a free one - for your platform.

Hope this helps.

You can look up bignosebird.com. They have a cgi script that will email forms for you as well. Probably easier than building your own.