Jfield
Posts: 1

Hello
I am a graphic designer working on a web site that requires a registration form. This is a very basic form with with just 3 text fields, 2 radio buttons plus a submit button. It is set to do "mailto:" ...when the visitor/applicant submits their info, it goes to an email address. This works automatically in IE but in Netscape, when the submit button is clicked, a blank email window opens...

Do I  need javascript to get this to work universally? Is there a tutorial or reference on this site???

Thanks for the help...

Joe Gillespie
Posts: 528

'mailto' is not a valid action for a form. The fact that it works in some browsers is neither here nor there. Lots of invalid things work in old browsers, that why they are so big, slow and bloated - Yes I'm talking about IE here!

The only valid actions for a form are 'get' and 'post' which deliver the form reponses to the server to be interpreted appropriately.

You need to send your form to a script on the server to be parsed and passed on to Sendmail for mailing. It's nothing to do with JavaScript.

No, I don't have a tutorial on this on WPDFD as it's not really what WPDFD is about. A search on Google should find you the solution.

Lozit
Posts: 6

Use formmail.

Need CGI (http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html) or PHP (http://www.dtheatre.com/scripts/formmail.php) enabled on your host.

This is really easy to use.

Vladimir
Posts: 53

PHP should be a good solution. Use the mail() function...it's really simple...I'm sure most hosts support PHP nowadays...