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**Arfan** · 04:31 PM

Hi
i have a HTML form which seems not to work.
the "mail it" and "reset" buttom dont work
here's the HTML code for it

<html>
<head>
<title>Outgoing Form</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></head>

<body background="Images/Background.jpg">
<FORM ACTION="MAILTO:Arfan_mahmood_786@hotmail.com" METHOD="POST">
<form action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" method="POST" enctype="text/plain">

<table width="71%" border="1" height="509">
<tr>
<td width="193" align="right">Surname:</td>
<td width="179"><input name="Surname" type="text" id="Surname" value="Surname">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="193" align="right">First Name:</td>
<td><input name="First Name" type="text" id="First Name" value="First Name"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="193" align="right">Other Names:</td>
<td><input name="Other Names" type="text" id="Other Names" value="Other Names"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="193" align="right">Email Adress:</td>
<td><input name="Email Address" type="text" id="Email Address" value="Name@outgoing.com"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="193" align="right" height="28">Date Of Birth:</td>
<td height="28">
<input name="Date Of Birth Day" type="text" id="Date Of Birth Day" value="01-01-1980" size="20">
<b> (DD/MM/YYYY)</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="193" height="26" align="right">Address </td>
<td><form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<input name="Address" type="text" id="Address" value="00 Outgoing Road">
</form>

<tr>
<td width="193" height="32" align="right">Post Code</td>
<td><form name="form2" method="post" action="">
<input name="Postcode" type="text" id="Postcode" value="OU1 1GO">
</form>

<tr>
<td align="right">How old are you:</td>
<td><select name="Age" id="Age">
<option>Please Choose</option>
<option>13-15</option>
<option>16-18</option>
<option>19-21</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Gender:</td>
<td><input type="radio" name="Gender" value="Male">
Male
<input type="radio" name="Gender" value="Female">
Female</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Type Of Holiday:</td>
<td><select name="Type of Trip" id="Type of Trip">
<option>Please Choose</option>
<option>Educational</option>
<option>Snow</option>
<option>Sun</option>
<option>Recreational</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Where About in Europe:</td>
<td><select name="Location of Trip" id="Location of Trip">
<option>Please Choose</option>
<option>Amsterdam</option>
<option>Dublin</option>
<option>Edinburgh</option>
<option>London</option>
<option>Paris</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="193" align="right">How did you hear about us </td>
<td><form name="form3" method="post" action="">
<select name="How did u hear about us" id="How did u hear about us">
<option>Please Choose</option>
<option>Search Engine</option>
<option>Advertisment</option>
<option>Mate</option>
<option>Other</option>
</select>
</form>

<tr>
<td width="193" align="right">Comment</td>
<td><form name="form4" method="post" action="">
<textarea name="Comment" rows="5" id="Comment"></textarea>
</form>
<tr>
<td width="193" align="right"> </td>
<td>

<tr>
<td width="193" align="right"> </td>
<td>

<p align="center">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Mail It">
<input name="Rest" type="reset" id="Rest" value="Reset"></table>
<p align="center"> </p>
</body>
</html>

**Arfan** · 04:36 PM

any1 know a php script that will allow this to send with out using outlook
aslo i want the php (php/asp/perl/cgi....) to send the form as html not as a attachment eg

Sure name:erer
First Name:Awerew

so this would be email to me.

also i want the php (php/asp/perl/cgi....) file to save the information to its own database so u can look at how many people have registerd on your website

**OtterBob** · 01-30-2004, 04:37 PM

Your buttons are outside the <form> code. Sneak those puppies(and the other code that's after the </form> tag) inside the <form></form> tags and it should work.

**Arfan** · 01-31-2004, 05:37 AM

i tried that and the submit button works as a reset button and the reset button does nothing

**dbzguy** · 11:08 PM

I have the answer

Here is some mailto cgi with perl i use for a guestbook
It uses the post method and all ou have to do is add the link to it in your action

you also have to put a hidden component with the email address
This is for a minipoll i have

#!/usr/bin/perl

# That is the path to PERL just above It MUST be first in the script
# The following accepts the data from the form

if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

foreach $pair (@pairs) {
($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
$value =~ tr/+/ /;
$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

$FORM{$name} = $value;
}

# The following sends the email

# This Line below is the path to the send mail server

open (MESSAGE,"| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
# To change the form data being accepted jus enter the form name int the $FORM{} brackets
print MESSAGE "To: $FORM{to}\n";

print MESSAGE "Subject: Poll\n\n";
print MESSAGE "Vote:\n\n";
print MESSAGE "$FORM{character}\n";
close (MESSAGE);

&thank_you;
}

#The following creates the Thank
# You page display(the page after they
#click the button so you can change it around all you need)

sub thank_you {

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML>\n";
print "<HEAD>\n";
print "<TITLE>Thank You!</TITLE>\n";
print "</HEAD>\n";
print "<BODY BGCOLOR=#000000 TEXT=#00ced1>\n";
print "<H1>Thank You!</H1>\n";
print "\n";
print "<P>\n";
print "<H3>Your vote is greatly appreciated.<BR>\n";
print "<h4>Hope you like my site</h4>\n";
print "<P>\n";
print "</BODY>\n";
print "</HTML>\n";
exit(0);
}