I have created a form in Dreamweaver. The text fields and reset button all work fine. But the submit button does not.

How can I set the submit button to email the information (within the form) to our email?

As I have posted previously, I do not know code and do not have time to learn it at the present time. Due to a crunching deadline, I am desperate for a solution.

Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated. If this question has been answered before, I do apologize.

My deepest thanks,

Jen

I believe I may have found the solution in a tutorial I found involving a template and hidden text fields. I plane to try it tomorrow morning--

Let me know if this sounds right, suggestions are still appriciated. Thank you in advance.

There really isn't a good way to do it if you don't know programming.

If you use hidden fields, you'll likely "hide" your email. I put that word in quotes because spam harvesters will find that email and all of a sudden, you'll find out just how small your ***** allegedly is.

What would YOU suggest I do then Adam? Tell me how you would do it, if you don't mind.

Jen there are some ready made programs out there that are free and will do what you need. You won't need to program anything, but you will need to set up a few things.

Try searching for form2mail or form2email or formmail. Any of them should bring back a lot of results. They may be taking you all to the same basic program.

I can't say anything for the qualiy of these programs, since I always code my own forms, but they are used frequiently and should provide the quickest solution for you.

I think the program will be written in perl, but possibly also PHP. I would go with PHP if you find a version using it, since if you do have to edit it at any point it will probably be easier to learn PHP than Perl.

Thank you very much Vangogh. I appriciate your constructive input. I hold you in the highest regard. Many, many thanks.

Thanks for the compliments and glad to help. Let me know if you're able to set things up. I'll be gone for awhile, but back later and hopefully be able to answer any questions if you have some.

hey Jen,

i had the same issue that you are having.

I use a php script that does the trick really nicely.

One of the things that I don't like about the scripts is how they show up. Can be a little confusing.

Kinda look like this:

name= whatever
date= whatever
etc, etc.

Make sure that when you name your fields that they are different enough that you can differenciate between them.

I had a friend create an html email that will send the form exactly as it is on the site. Makes it a lot easier to print and file, much cleaner looking.


Once you get your script, or pm me if you want and I will show you mine, you need to add the "action" to the form.

You should see a line in the code that says <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="contact.php">

The action is what calls the script into action. You also need to make sure that your server can run PHP.

I'm not sure if this will be any help to you, but i know it would have helped me when i started!