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**Jerz** · 12-07-2007, 07:25 PM

http://www.smdpphiladelphia.com/donationform.html On the site above, I am trying to have it so that a user can input info and it automatic send, but for some reason it just opens up email. Does any have any suggestions?

**joder** · 12-07-2007, 09:02 PM

It's not doing anything now. Your removed the opening <form>

**cbeaudin** · 12-08-2007, 06:08 AM

As far as i know there is no reliable way to send form data to email without a server side script. Your description sounds like you are using a mailto: in the action attribute. This will allow the user to open their email account through outlook or whatever their default email client is to send you the results.

Most web space providers will have a cgi application to allow you to do this automatically on the server. If this is the case you include the application path in your form tag like so

HTML Code:

<form action="/cgi-bin/app-name.cgi">

**wayfarer07** · 12-13-2007, 12:13 PM

Read about the php mail() function;
http://www.php.net/mail

**dman_2007** · 12-13-2007, 05:06 PM

The input controls on that page are not within the form tag. As far as sending mail is concerned you would have to use a server side scripting language or use the method recommended by cbeaudin

**wambui** · 12-19-2007, 03:08 PM

Hey... you need to add the Mailto action try this tag <form action='mailto:you@yourdomain.com' ... >
...
</form>
Use then opening form tag direclty below the openign tags for the body and the close the form tag directly above the closing tags for the body i.e.

<body>
<form action='mailto:you@yourdomain.com' ... >
text information

</form>
</Body>

**Jerz** · 12-28-2007, 01:29 PM

thanks i'll give these a try hopefully one of them works and basically what i wanted was form all the info in the form to be sent to an email address...

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