<>Solved<> Making a Promt Email Me!<>Solved<>

I have my promt in a button, using an onclick event.

How would I make it email me what the user types in?

[Web moderator]

Are you using JavaScript? JS can't email.

Have a look here.

PHP is a fun, safe reliable tool for this job.  Most commercial servers run it these days. 
this form uses the POST method (a special HTTP request which hides the users input)


code for page with form to take user input
**********************************

<form method="post" action="mailSender.php">
      
   Your Name: <input type="text" size="30" maxlength="40" name="name"> </input><br > <br >
      
   Your Email: <input type="text" size="30" maxlength="60" name="addy">  </input>
 

         
   <textarea style="height:100px; width:400px;" name=msg>
                              
   </textarea   >
                              
   <br >
   <input type="submit" value="Send"> </input>
</form >


---- end page




code for page which recieves user input
(the code in the first page needs to know this pages name. In page 1 it assumes this page is called mailSender.php)
******************************************************************************************************************

<?php

        // POST gets data from referencing page
   $body_of_email=$_POST['msg'];
   $ad= $_POST['addy'];

    $len = strlen($ad);
    $pos = strpos($ad, '@');       

                //check for common typos
      if($ad==null || $pos ==false || $len<6)
      {
         echo "You forgot, or entered the wrong email address  Please click back and enter address.";
         
      }

       else{
      
         if (mail( 'SOME-EMAIL-ADDRESS@SOME-DOMAIN.com', 'An email from some website', $body_of_email, $ad))
         {
            echo "<center>";
            echo("
 
 
 <b/> <font color=white size=4> Message successfully sent!</b/>");
            echo "
 
 
 <a href=\"index.php\"> Continue </a/>";
          }
         else
         {
            echo(" Message delivery failed...");
          }
      }

      
?>

----end page---------

you could try HTML "mailto:" hyperlink.

Yes this would work:


mailto:bailey0912@hotmail.com

BUT I want the forms to be on my website.

Additionally, Mailto: is a spam magnet.

[Web moderator]

A completely shameless link to my own site.

Additionally, Mailto: is a spam magnet.

good point,

Additionally, Mailto: is a spam magnet.

good point,

yeah, learned about that the hard way myself.

Try over 8000 e-mails under my old E-mail account.