How to create a fill out form?

[Caspar]

Greetings,

I?m looking for some help in creating a fill out form.

Basically I want to have a link on my site, when you click it a small window pops up with a fill out form. I have no problems coding the link and popup, but the fill out form gives me a headache.

I want to have some pop up menus where you can choose different things and some fields where you can type freely.

At the bottom I would like to have a link called submit, which sends the form to an e-mail adress.

I?ve got full access to a SQL database if that is needed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best Regards,

Cascar

[AaronMT]

This would be easy to do in an ASP envrionment. Do you know any C# or have access on your server to use ASPX pages?

[Caspar]

I?ve completed the form and the layout, was a piece of cake. All I need now is the code for sending the form to an e-mail adress.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Does your server support PHP/ASP/ASPX?

[Caspar]

Yes it does.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Which language would you prefer to use then?

[Caspar]

As simple as possible, probably PHP.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Right. Ensure your form is submitting to a second page ("formreceiver.php" for example), and have the method set to "post".

On "formreceiver.php" put the following:

<?
$to = "you@youraddress.com";
$subject = "Email from website";

$body = "This just came through:\n\n";
foreach($_POST as $name => $val){
	$body .= $name.": ".$val."\n\n";
}
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
 } else {
  echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
 }
?>

Let me know how this works. Also, name your input feilds as logically as possible, and the emails will make more sense! I know this is a quick way of doing it and may be a little ugly, but I am assuming you don't know PHP, so this should just work straight away.

[Caspar]

So I?ll just create a link in my form that links to the formreciever.php with the above code in it?

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

No.

Your <form> tag should be:

<form method="post" action="formreceiver.php">

Obviously if you are doing any client side validation you would need to name/id your form, but hopefully you get the general gist!

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Did it work?