Hi I am a complete novice i have been trying all day to get a form on my website to send back info to me without success I fill out the form click the submit button and you are taken to the cgi file in the cgi-bin I,m completely lostand confused can anyone help????? the site and form i am messing about with is WWW.jjs-caravan-lets.co.uk/funform.html

I have just found another post about form building that recommends a form gen which i am trying however it is asking me to set read/write permisions how?????

Hi J,

The ACTION property of the FORM tag is where the form information gets sent. If you look at the source of your code it sends the information to http://www.jjs-caravan-lets.co.uk/cg...rm/funform.cgi

If you want the form information emailed to you then you want to change the ACTION property to "mailto:youremail@youremaildomain.com" of course substituting the mail address for the correct one. Also. you don't need the hidden input tags.

Let us know how this works.

hi your suggestion works to some extent it is at least being sent to me as an email there are a few bugs to iron out like ive no content at the moment and my browser keeps sending warning messages etc but at least it is a start. thanks for your input

In order for the info to be sent back to you via HTML, you need something like PHP or PERL to interpret the form data. I'm guessing you don't know a lot about CGI. Look to see if on your host you can use PHP, if so use

<?php echo $_POST['E_MAIL']; ?>

for example to display what was put into the email form. Here is a simple tutorial on how to use the $_POST var.

thanks ive a lot to learn. that link to the php tutorial was very useful as welldo you happen to know a good books that will show me the basics and that i can use as a referance

A site I found for novices who just want to get something on their website is http://www.jotform.com. Pain in da booty to get a mail form, at least for me, and I found them. It's free and they don't place ads. They just don't allow you to get more than 100 messages forwarded to you a day (you can check the stats on their website).

Still, I might check out that tutorial myself.