feedback page

[unlovedwarrior]

ok i want to make a page where people can fill out a form and that gets sent to my site email account. how would i do this??


TIA

unlovedwarrior

[Rob Pomeroy]

Is your site running PHP?

[unlovedwarrior]

nay.. i dont know anything about PHP

[Rob Pomeroy]

It is difficult to handle mail in a spam-proof way uless you have the possibility of server-side scripting.  You don't have to know any PHP - the question is whether your web host provides it.  If not, we can use a fairly simple form to fire up the end user's mail programs, but even with an obfuscated email address, it is still theoretically possible for the spambots to pick your email address off your web page.  Personally, I could NEVER do this client-side, and ONLY server-side.

What say you?

[unlovedwarrior]

ummm.. i think they support php, cuz thats what my forums are phpbb

[Computer Hope Admin]

You may want to first see if your ISP has something already setup that you can place on your web page to do this for you. Often many ISPs will have scripts already setup for their members to handle mail forums to help prevent issues that could arise if you created your own mail script.

However, if not available you could do this with a PHP script or a Perl script. There are several mail scripts available both in PHP and Perl that are capable of doing this for you.