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totally lost in the world of forms...

Posted 16 Dec 2002 05:28:40
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16 Dec 2002 05:28:40 E Cunningham posted:
Please please please help me. I don't know much at all about forms, but i have created all these little check boxes and things in dreamweaver MX (inside the red form border thing)

i have a submit button button, but no idea how to get it to send me all of the data that people would have filled in (it's a pretty long survey so i do't want to have to start again) PLEASE HELP ME!

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Replied 16 Dec 2002 09:38:44
16 Dec 2002 09:38:44 Marja Ribbers-de Vroed replied:
I've also answered this in another thread, but here goes again...

Best way would be to use some server-side language. But a simple way would be to put 'mailto:<some email address>' in the Action property of the From tag.
Eg. like this:

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>
form name="form1" id="form1" method="post" action="mailto: "
</font id=code></pre id=code>

But... the drawback for this method is that the visitors own mail program will be used to send the form information and he/she will be able to prevent sending that info by deleting the email from the Outbox. Then you will never receive a thing.

So... if possible I would definitely go for the server-side solution.

Hope this helps.

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Marja Ribbers-de Vroed
www.flevooware.nl
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