Hi,
I have just recently completed my website!! I have put a form on it for customers hopefully to send me a booking enquiry. Can anyone help me out with form mail? ie how and where to insert the code on my web page? Any help is always greatly appreciated!


Best Regards,

Mez.

HI,

formmail is a free script that takes whatever your form sends to it and assembles it into an email then sends it to you. You need to configure it so that it accepts input from your site and sends to a specified list of domains. If you don't do that anyone can use it to send messages to anyone else, it was updated to include these measures for security. I've used it but now prefer to write my own php to handle the inputs, it's more time consuming but you keep full control.

If you handle your own input you can also screen out all sorts of junk that people enter - and take precautions against bots that go around putting junk into your forms and sending it, a kind of advertising. I found my early DW forms were being targetted like that and stopped using it. There is an application called forms to go www.bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/usersguide/en/ that will take your html form and write the php for you (or other server technology). It's not the easiest thing to set up and use, the way I've used it is to write the basic code for the form, then massage that into the shape that I want.

It will do all sorts of testing of input fields for you, all of which you can then edit, great way to learn - which I'm doing