OT CGI mail, who can help me? - Engraving Etc. Forum

From:	Shaddy	23 Sep 2006
To:	ALL	1 of 5

4923.1

I'm trying to set up a mail form on my site, and I have CGI scripts, but I am unable to make it work from the help pages. Anyone done this before? I can set up a Mailto, but I would rather have it automatically mail instead of that.

I'm quitting for the night, but if anyone has some tips or a tutorial/samples out there...

I keep getting my addresses wrone, or possibly my text files. Who knows at this point.

Thanks

Shaddy

From:	Dave Jones (DAVERJ)	23 Sep 2006
To:	Shaddy	2 of 5

4923.2 In reply to 4923.1

I did it years ago using cgi scripts, but it was far too complicated. It is quite simple to do it using PHP. (assuming the server has a mail server installed, which most do)

The bare bones method with PHP only takes a couple of lines of code. Of course, to add some good security code, to prevent using the form for spamming (a big problem with cgi scripts used for mailing forms) does add a fair amount more code.

A friend of mine has put together a PHP script for people to use with GoLive, DreamWeaver, or just raw hand written pages. He has it at:

http://www.mindpalette.com/formprocessing/index.php

From:	Shaddy	25 Sep 2006
To:	Dave Jones (DAVERJ)	3 of 5

4923.3 In reply to 4923.2

That looks doable for me, thanks a lot. I know a little PHP from messing with my online gallery.

THanks
Shaddy

From:	Laser Image (LASER_IMAGE)	25 Sep 2006
To:	Dave Jones (DAVERJ)	4 of 5

4923.4 In reply to 4923.2

That is really a great resource. I played with the free version for a bit last night and have a pretty nice test page setup. I'll spring for the $15.00 version to support his work and get some of the features that come with the paid version.
I have never created a form page before but it was very easy once I found a website with some samples. I just modified them to fit his special tags and it worked great!

Thanks for the link!

Gary

From:	Dave Jones (DAVERJ)	25 Sep 2006
To:	Laser Image (LASER_IMAGE)	5 of 5

4923.5 In reply to 4923.4
Glad to help. I've known Nate for a few years and he's a great person. Very generous with helping people. I helped him a bit with the code in the early versions of "NateMail". He and I were both moderators of Adobe Golive forums and wrote lots of PHP and javascript for members there. He's still moderating their Golive Mac forum. I stepped down last year from moderating their Golive Windows forum. My business was taking too much time.