I need two different forms one for clients that will email me their name and email to my email address. The second form should do the same except it will be for people who will be working for me. I have looked at some tutorials but I can't seem to get the html right, can anyone help me find a good tutorial for this?

You could try a natty little programme called Form Tools, which sets up a mySQL database, reads the form, and then emails you (or the originator or both) a copy. It also writes to the database. And its free. I think it's quite brilliant, and use it to set up a lot of my forms.

Slightly more complex is Phorm. But it is more flexible than Form Tools. However, you need to know basic PHP to use it.

I have set already set up mysql (for wordpress) will Form Tools work with an existing database?

Thank for your reply btw.

If you are using Wordpress, there are a lot of form mail plugins.
Check out some of the ones listed here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...hp?q=form+mail

I have used the "WP Contact Form" before. It is pretty easy and works well, but I am not certain if you can send to multiple email addresses.

If you can't find a plugin that works for you, you will probably want to look into php form mail scripts. I think your question is more about php that html.

Ok I have already tried a few off of that list but I cant seem to tweak them the way I need.

To get a better idea of what I am trying to do visit http://backlinkretailers.co.cc

I would like a form on both the clients and handlers page. All I really need the form to do is send me a name, email and some kind of indicator as to which form a person filled out. I dont want to respond to a "client" with a reply that is meant for a "handler."

Thanks.

Here is the code the backlinkretailers.co.cc site uses:

<FORM action="mailto:mlb4168@gmail.com" method="POST">Name:
<INPUT type="text" name="Name" size="30">Email:
<INPUT type="text" name="Email" size="30">Client:
<INPUT type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="Client">Handler:
<INPUT type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="Handler">
<INPUT type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send"></FORM>

They are just using "mailto" which is not the most ideal thing to use. If a user tries to submit the form, it will open their email client and prompt them to send a pre-filled email. You will probably lose a lot of emails that way.

I would use a php page to process the form and send out an email. BUT, if you are going to use the "mailto" and need to send it to two people, it would look something like this:
"mailto:firstaddress@gmail.com, secondaddress@gmail.com"
You would just separate the email addresses with a comma.

Now, if you want to automatically pass the type of person filling out the form, you could use a hidden field that would look something like this:

<form action="mailto:email@email.com" method="post">
    <label for="clientName">Name:</label><input type="text" name="clientName" />
    <label for="clientEmail">Email:</label><input type="text" name="clientEmail" />
    <input type="hidden" name="userType" value="client" />
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

The hidden form field will go through and you can see that, in this case, it came from the client page. On the "handler" page, you would just change the value of the hidden form field to "handler".

If you need help creating a processing page for this rather than using the "mailto", there are some great people in the PHP forum that could probably help.

thank you angele803
That sounds like it should be what I need.

You could manually do it, but I'd also suggest using a wordpress plugin. I setup one for one of my clients last week, I think it was called something like "contact form 7".. It did many forms, and had some pretty neat features.

thank you all for your help i think contact form 7 will suit my needs for now.

Plenty of Html Tutorials can be found using google...

It's your friend...Use it

if you use PHP form are very simple to make yourself why not try w3cschools they have great tutorials, also look up sessions and cookies for your user control

Originally Posted by !!underlink!!

if you use PHP form are very simple to make yourself why not try w3cschools they have great tutorials, also look up sessions and cookies for your user control

Thank you guys, I am using contact form 7 right now but will be making the switch to a PHP form. Thanks for the w3c tip.

just a tip for anybody else using contact form 7. if you are not receiving a return address on your email (unknown sender), try deleting the asterisk (*) in the name field and email field before saving and copy/pasting to your site. I think the * indicates that it is "required" but for some reason it messes up. I tried deleting the * in the code and now it works.

Here is the original, non-working code.

<p>Your Name (required)<br />
[text* your-name] </p>

<p>Your Email (required)<br />
[email* your-email] </p>

<p>Subject<br />
[text your-subject] </p>

<p>Your Message<br />
[textarea your-message] </p>

<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

Here is the edited code that works for me.

<p>Your Name (required)<br />
[text your-name] </p>

<p>Your Email (required)<br />
[email your-email] </p>

<p>Subject<br />
[text your-subject] </p>

<p>Your Message<br />
[textarea your-message] </p>

<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

Hope this helps anyone else who maybe having a problem retrieving names and return email address'