I am trying to figure out how the simple form on this website works. Could someone take a look?

http://www.circularflyers.com

It looks to be just a standard form that posts to a cold fusion script. The form itself doesn't do anything special.
What don't you understand about it?

Well I'm trying to have the form end the message to my email. If I recall the form needs a seperate file on the server that it uses to do that, however I'm not sure how to make that file and to make it functional.

Can anyone help?

Just search for "contact form script" in whatever server side code your hosting supports.

This is a very easy one http://www.form2emailscript.com it's just one file what makes it good is the email you put in that script is the only one that it will send email too "To keep the spammers from using it" to send out spam.

Plus you can ban ip addresses

<TABLE valign=center cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<TR> <TD BGCOLOR=#ffffff width=800px><center>

<br/><h5><font  face=verdana>Enter Your Question or Comment in the form below I will get Back to you 

ASAP</font></h5>

<form method="post" action="form2email.php">
<input type="hidden" name="to" value="yourname@email.com">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="FROM YOUR SITE">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="success.php">
<input type="hidden" name="name_reqd">
<input type="hidden" name="email_reqd">
<input type="hidden" name="message_reqd">
<table border="0"  cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="700">
<TR><TD  VALIGN=TOP ><P ALIGN=LEFT><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Name <br><input name="name" /> </p>                              

      <p>Email address<br><input name="email" /> </p> <p>Message<br><textarea rows="10" cols="60" 

name="message"></textarea> </p>  <p>&nbsp; <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" /> <input type="reset" 

name="reset" value="Reset" /> </p></p></form>                                    
</td></table>

try wufoo.com

eastiest form building site out there (imo)....you can use 3 forms for free....

chris

What does the following code do?

action="form2email.php"

it seems that this isn't a one file form.

Originally Posted by web-Inspect

What does the following code do?

action="form2email.php"

it seems that this isn't a one file form.

Well if you put the script I suggested http://www.form2emailscript.com in the same directory as the contact form your email gets sent.

a contact form is just 1/2 of what you need you also need a mail script. I suggested a easy one but there are thousands of different scripts that do the same thing

The one you had in the example uses "mail.cfm"

<form action="mail.cfm" method="post" name="contact">

It's a regular form calling a cfmail statement within a cfif... just basic cold fusion stuff... nothing fancy. I wanted to keep the whole thing real simple. Look up cfmail in the cold fusion docs.

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<form method="post" action="form2email.php">
<input type="hidden" name="to" value="yourname@email.com">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="FROM YOUR SITE">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="success.php">
<input type="hidden" name="name_reqd">
<input type="hidden" name="email_reqd">
<input type="hidden" name="message_reqd">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="700">


I thank, this is use full for usl

Hi..
A form is an area that can contain form elements.
Form elements are elements that allow the user to enter information (like text fields, textarea fields, drop-down menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.) in a form.
A form is defined with the <form> tag.

<form>
<input>
<input>
</form>

thanks for solutions