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Simply Internet's
web server has a utility installed that will allow you to create
forms on web pages and get the results without having to do any
coding. A script called mailform resides in our cgi-bin directory.
To set up a email form on your webpage, you will need to have basic
knowledge of HTML form elements. A tutorial on form elements can
be found at Webmonkey's
HTML page
or Web
Communications HTML Tutorial.
Instructions:
Step 1: Determine your platform.
UNIX: If your site is hosted on the UNIX platform,
you will need to request the formmail script for your cgi-bin.
Please send an email to webhosting@simplyweb.net with your
request.
Windows 2000 : If your site is hosted on the 2000 platform, you will need to do one of the following: - Request a cgi-bin directory and formmail script by sending an email to webhosting@simplyweb.net.
- If you utilize Front Page extensions,
you will need to use the form provided by FrontPage which
uses "web bots".
- Use AspEmail (examples can be found at www.aspemail.com).
Step 2: If you are using our provided formmail.pl script, you may copy the HTML below and paste it into a new document
in your editor.
*Note this
is only a sample form! Your form may be much more complex.
Simply use
this as a starting point and customize your form to your needs.
The parts in RED are really
the only parts that are necessary/recommended for your form
to work with this script.
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Title Here</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<form method="post" action="http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/formmail.pl">
name<br>
<input type="text" name="name">
<br>
email<br>
<input type="text" name="email">
<br>
<input type="hidden" name="realname"
value="My FormMail Test">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect"
value="http://www.yourRedirectPage.com">
<input type="hidden" name="subject"
value="Your Subject here">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient"
value="email@yourdomain.com">
<input type="submit" name="Submit"
value="Submit">
<input type="reset" name="clear" value="Clear
it">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Step 3: Edit the parts in RED to match your settings and
prefrences and save your new HTML page.
Step 4: Upload the page and test your form. Thats it!
If you have further questions, please give us a call at
1-619-757-1011
Good Luck!
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