View Full Version : Contact form help


Slayer25
03-26-2007, 11:38 PM
I need a contact form on my website, that will send to my email address what the visitor enter in the form fields. The problem is that I can't run any php scripts.. is there a way to use some html form?

Mile-O
03-27-2007, 12:24 AM
HTML is only able to display stuff on the screen. You will need a server side scripting language (PHP, ASP, etc.) to be able to handle the form and forward the data input on to you. If you don't have such a language installed on your server then another alternative would be to seek a third party contact form.

Slayer25
03-28-2007, 12:57 AM
I found a site that offers remotely hosted contact forms, www.emailmeform.com . Basically, I paste the html code in my website, and it calls the php script on their server who sends the email.

It`s this safe to use on my website ?

hooks
03-28-2007, 04:49 AM
What you could do is write the contact information into a table on your webserver and read the database from your home computer and send the email that way.

Just a thought.
Hooks

Mile-O
03-28-2007, 06:49 AM
I paste the html code in my website, and it calls the php script on their server who sends the email.

It`s this safe to use on my website ?
Yes, it's safe. It's just a bit of code and it can't access your server. You'll probably find it expects a link back to itself so as to help further promote the service. Other than that, that should be fine.

cocoonfx
04-14-2007, 02:21 AM
I have a PHP script and HTML code i use on all my websites you use for a small fee.

PM me and i can tell you how much and how to use it.

Mile-O
04-16-2007, 03:11 AM
I have a PHP script and HTML code i use on all my websites you use for a small fee.

I fail to see how that can help the poster since they explicitly stated in their first post that they can't run PHP scripts.

Jakboi
04-17-2007, 05:21 AM
I take it this must be your own server. If so I would just install PHP on it and or get some help, since a programming language is going to be essential at some point.

When I had my server running I had:

Apache
PHP
phpmyadmin
MySql

Think was about it, but yea your not going to be able to do much without something.

Salient
09-05-2007, 03:47 PM
I take it this must be your own server. If so I would just install PHP on it and or get some help, since a programming language is going to be essential at some point.

When I had my server running I had:

Apache
PHP
phpmyadmin
MySql

Think was about it, but yea your not going to be able to do much without something.

To backup Jakboi here, do a google for a product called wamp5 and install that. The easy way to get the products listed installed, a few questions and you're done ;)

Of course it's more fun to do it manually, but simple can't work out how to get php working with apache on XP platforms :( Never had this issue with Win2k.