frustrated with forms

[zayin]

Someone please help!!! I am going crazy trying to get a form where it can be submitted on a web page without going to outlook express. The way it is now you type in whatever and press submitand it takes you to outlook leaving the information you just filled out blank!. I don't get it at all??? Also I purchased a book thinking it might help me and it says to place your form in cgi-bin, how do I do that? I've been fooling with this for 2 days. Someone please help me. Everytime I ask a question in here I am so greatful for the responses I get. THANK-YOU EVERYONE this site is the best!

[whipbeat]

Check out Matt's Script Archive for FormMail: I use it... it works great. You just put it in your cgi-bin and put the commands on your form.

[WebSavvy]

Actually there's a security hole with using Matt Wrights script, because anybody can use it to send out spam from your domain. There have been many, many articles written on it within the past year.

I'd suggest using FormMail by Ranson scripts. It's free. You can do a search for it at hotscripts.com

If you can't find it, PM me and I'll put a zipped copy in my web server for you and then PM you back the download URL.

It's the same script I use on my server it and it's very secure and takes 30 seconds to upload it, then use it.

Good Luck. :)

[foghorn]

I've had good luck with Jack's Formmail, which you can at #1 by putting Jack's formmail in google. It's a php script.

[Blue]

nms (or rather The London Perl Mongers) has very nicely addressed the problems with many of Matt Wright's scripts.

nms (http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net). The new FormMail script there will also nicely suffice.