Web Form making

himel · Beginner User Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 25

Sometimes we see on webpages there is a place to post comments. A box. you can write on that box and submit or post your comments. And that commnets goes to webmaster. How Can i make this system?

emm · Power User Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 310

Oh, you want a contact form. You can very easily write code for such a program, but you need the help of your host. You need to know if your host has a CGI script ruuning that can send mail from a form. All paid hosts have that. But free hosts usualy don't allow you access to the CGI scripts. If you cannot use a CGI form mail script, you can use code to start the user's email application to send an email to you. But that's very bad. Nobody wants to send email with outlook express from your webpage. First try to know if your host gives you access to CGI formmail.
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hasnut · Expert User Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 201

Three files
1. The form that shows to client
2. Send mail script
3. Thankyou page

1. the form
file name: contact.php

Code:

<html>
<title>Contact Form</title>

<head>

</head>
<form name="form" method="post" action="sendmail.php">
<table width="400" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="">
<tr>
<td width="200" valign="top" align="right">Your Name: </td>
<td width="200" valign="top" align="left">
<input type="text" name="name" size="25" maxlength="200" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="200" valign="top" align="right">Your Email:</td>
<td width="200" valign="top" align="left">
<input type="text" name="email" size="25" maxlength="100" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="200" valign="top" align="right">Your Comments: </td>
<td width="200" valign="top" align="left">
<textarea name="msg" cols="25" rows="4"></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="200" valign="top"> </td>
<td width="200" valign="top" align="left">
<input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset" />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

</html>

2. Mail Script
file name:sendmail.php

Code:

<?php

$header .= "From: $name <$email>\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; // mime type
$recipient = "youremail@yourdomain.com"; // Your email address here
$subject = "Contct Form filled"; // Subject of the email

$msg = wordwrap( $msg, 1024 ); //worping the message

mail($recipient, $subject, stripslashes($msg), $header); // the mail() function sends the message to you

//show thank you
header("location: thankyou.php");
?>

3. Thank you page
file name:thankyou.php

Code:

<h1>Thank You</h1>

Note: This is done by PHP, if you need cgi/perl then let me know. And one issue is your server need to support php/cgi and Free servers don't have access to mail component. so you can't use it on free server.
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himel · Beginner User Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 25

I want to make a forum. Pleae give me the address of free banerles forum hosting. I want to change my forums colour. Can you give me nice skin for forums?

quantum

You cannot find a free bannerless hosting. There is nothing like free lunch. Disk space and bandwidth cost money. If you want that much control over your website, buy it. Hasnut provides such a service for only 1500tk./year.

Look up this thread and email him.

http://www.quantumcloud.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=492

You can also try free invision forum at http://www.invisionfree.com. That's probably the most popular free one around this time.

Get your own forum and leave us alone.
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