How to make a form in Dreamweaver send info to an email address

[mrapoc]

Hi all

Im wanting to make a form in my dreamweaver site so that it sends all info to my email address (in this case zenon(at)idnet(dot)com )

Its to send me data (like a feedback form) for my web design unit @ college

Name:
Email address:
Telephone number:
Comments:
Preferred contact: (drop down box)

Submit


So how do i make the submit button send info to my email address without using the cr*ppy method via the clients email client (which i still cant get to work  )

Thanking you

[Sebby]

What you need is a script. Who is your current host? A lot of them already have these in place.

[Lance]

Hopefully Paul, who I know is a web designer, will be along some time tonight with an answer!

[mrapoc]

Im only doing it local atm as its only set as an assignment (gotta put onto cd for my lecturer to mark)

But eventually i want to launch it (idnet web space?) but thats once iv removed copyrighted shizz

Is this script gonna be easy? iv only just started learning about stuff like CSS, library items etc. (but managed to do it! lol)

Just wanting me extra brownie points  8)

[Sebby]

You don't need to write the script yourself.

I don't think IDNet already have scripts for customers' site (someone will correct me if I'm wrong).

A site like this should help you out.

[mrapoc]

cheers but i dont think i need to go into all thos scripts especially seeing as though it looks as if u have to host the site in order to use them

im looking for a local alternative, which my lecturer can fill in, send, and i can show i received it

i dunno if there is 

those instructions seem pretty complex to me

[Sebby]

Oh, you want to do this locally?

[mrapoc]

Ya for now - its just for maximum marks and showing i can implement it for now

Later maybe ill host it 

[Sebby]

I'm not too sure how to achieve it locally. I know you can install a local version of Perl (I think I used to use one called ActivePerl, many years ago) but it was a bit tricky to setup, IIRC. Perhaps someone else will be able to suggestion something easier.

The only other thing I can think of is one of the forms that uses JavaScript to send using your mail client, but you've already said you don't really want that.

[mrapoc]

What are my other options to create the illusion it works or simply achieve it another way?

Thanking youuuu

*its in for tomorrow* 

[Rik]

Could you do it by using a table in Excel, Sam, then mailing that? Just thinking so laterally that you could slide me under a closed door.

[scook94]

Did a bit of googling and came up with this. I don't know if it's of any help though.

"Setting up a simple mailto form in Dreamweaver

Once a form has been developed in Dreamweaver, follow the steps below to create a mailto action for the form. Refer to How to develop a form in Dreamweaver (TechNote 14950) if you need additional information about creating the form itself.

   1. In Design View, place the cursor inside the form, then select the form tag from the Tag Selector at the bottom of the page.
   2. In the Action field of the Property inspector, enter the e-mail address where the data in the form will be sent to. If you are using another method for processing the form data, the action field will typically refer to a file that houses the processing script.
   3. In the Enctyp field, type text/plain.
   4. A subject line can be defined by adding it after the email address and a question mark in the Action field. An example of that would be: mailto:user@domain.com?subject=Hello there."

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14853

[Rik]

Nice work, Steven.