Can anyone help please?
I have created a few sites but have never needed and order form. I have created a form on my web site www.theoldexchange.com it is located at http://www.theoldexchange.com/book-on-line.htm and I feel the form does everything i need it to do. However I cant get it to e-mail me. Can anyone advise? I see forms on just about every site I go to , but I am stumped. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Is your formmail.pl script customized for the fields you want it to do?

Does it give you an error, or just not e-mail you at all?

If it doesn't email you it all, you might have the reference to the sendmail location wrong for the server. I always have this problem on any yahoo hosted site.

I find that a PHP solution is often easier than CGI/Perl

Thanks for your reply.
I have followed the guide that came with the form-mail and set the code to mail me, however if you click the 'request booking' button (which I am happy anyone do) it says that it cant find the file. Yet the file is there and I have set its attributes to active. I have tried a different form mail script, but none have worked.

Am I right in thinking that this is true:
1/ have sendmail located in folder cgi-bin (that I have created)
2/ adapt the code of the formmail.pl file to send to my e-mail address
3/ get the form on my web site 'action' to the formmail.pl

what is sendmail ? is this the formmail file or what ? I'm confused. If you have a system that you think a 'numty' like me can use - can you recommend one please - please - please !!!!!

My guess is that if the file is in there, and you can't access it.. that the host is blocking .pl / .cgi files from undesignated directories. I would call your host and ask them about it, I have run into it before with another host but am not sure what they did exactly to fix it.

Sendmail is the linux/unix service/program that sends e mail

Maybe I missed something here, but I didn't see an ending form tag.

Honestly, I am a FrontPage person, so I am not versed in PHP.

However, your action you have action="thanks.php" rather than sending to the form handler script. The thanks page would be more appropriate as a redirect.

In HTML it would be <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="thanks.php">

You would also need email <input type="hidden" name="mailto" value="youremail.com"> unless these things are already set up in your Cgi bin.

Honestly I don't know how to code this in relation to your form handler script.

Previously he did have it pointing to formmail.pl, I am thinking he is trying php options since the formmail wasn't working.

tHANKS FOR ALL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS. THE FORM MAIL IS NOW WORKING, BUT IT WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE HOSTING PACKAGE AND DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM ENABLED THE FORM TO WORK.

THANKS AGAIN