Hey, web gurus! I'm having trouble with a web form. Help?

[Plane Sailing]

The form isn't working because (as someone else has mentioned) the form action="mailto:blahblahblah".

This relies upon suitable interaction between the end users web browser and the end users email app, and so is not guaranteed to work at all!

I will email you a basic ASP page which has scripting to send an email via CDONTS since you are running on an IIS web server.

If it doesn't work straight off it might be that there is no SMTP server enabled, but it is worth a try.

Regards,

 

[Plane Sailing]

I've just emailed you a slightly reworked form.htm and a new form_response.asp which actually handles the emailing.

Pop these on your server and give them a whirl. If they don't work send me the error message - it may be that CDONTS or SMTP isn't available for some reason.

Cheers

 

[(contact)]

There's nothing plain about your sailing, Plane. Thanks.

 

[(contact)]

There are plenty of resources available to get good, standards compliant code out of Dreamweaver. The Dreamweaver task force is a good place to start: http://www.webstandards.org/act/campaign/dwtf/mxassessed.html

Macromedia's DevNet has a good followup article: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/articles/code_standards.html

These should get you started on the path to clean code with Dreamweaver.

Thanks Andrew!

 

[Nareau]

Looks like you got some good suggestions here. You might also want to look at formmail.pl (a perl script that handles this kind of thing). I use it on my site for DJ requests and general contact stuff: www.the5thcircle.com

Spider

 

[Plane Sailing]

I don't know what the current version of formmail.pl is like, but I continually get hackers attempting to access formmail.pl on my webserver (with no success since it isn't there).

Cheers

 

[Drawmack]

I don't suggest using formmail.pl
formmail.pl took both the from and the to fields as parameters from the html document so a hacker can use this program to spam from your server.

 

[Martin]

Regarding formmail.pl . . .

I just got four e-mails regarding someone doing that exact thing using a server that no longer hosts my domain, but apparently hasn't cleared out the old files. It kind of freaked me out at first because it happened at the same time as the msblast.exe happend and I spent some time trying to figure out what had happened.

 

[Plane Sailing]

BTW - I emailed the stuff from my work email address, so if you've replied to there about anything I'll not see it until Monday! You can contact me on my home email address no bother though.

Cheers