capture email addresses

[Guest]

Hello,

Cn anyone point me in the direction of how to build a "submit email" button
through FP 2003 and how this would work in terms of where the information
would be captured (would it go to a database?) for me to find?

There must be guideance out there. Hope someone can help.

 

[David Baxter]

Not sure what you mean by "where the information would be captured" but
if you want to have a "submit email" button or text link that will allow
a visitor to send you an email, you do it like a hyperlink:

<A href="mailto:[email protected]">send me email</a>

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

Do you want an email Form...or a link that sends an email?


| Hello,
|
| Cn anyone point me in the direction of how to build a "submit email" button
| through FP 2003 and how this would work in terms of where the information
| would be captured (would it go to a database?) for me to find?
|
| There must be guideance out there. Hope someone can help.
|
|

 

[Guest]

I have a website and would like a facility to allow visitors to "subscribe to
an email".(You see this on an option on the majority of websites) I am not
sure how to go about this and basically need some direction. I assume a
visitor would be able to input their email into a box, click submit and this
would go off to a database, or be sent to me in an email. If anyone can
offer any guideance please let me know.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

Insert | Form |Form, will allow you to build a form that you can save to db or as a csv and have confirmation sent to your email address.

You could then build a db of email addrs to use for a mailing...this is simple way to do it - as long as you're not going to have thousands of addrs. I do it this way for a limited access web. Then I import the names addresses into Outlook and create groups. ...again this is a simple way of doing it.




| I have a website and would like a facility to allow visitors to "subscribe to
| an email".(You see this on an option on the majority of websites) I am not
| sure how to go about this and basically need some direction. I assume a
| visitor would be able to input their email into a box, click submit and this
| would go off to a database, or be sent to me in an email. If anyone can
| offer any guideance please let me know.
|
| "Rob Giordano (aka: Crash Gordon®)" wrote:
|
| > Do you want an email Form...or a link that sends an email?
| >
| >
| > | Hello,
| > |
| > | Cn anyone point me in the direction of how to build a "submit email" button
| > | through FP 2003 and how this would work in terms of where the information
| > | would be captured (would it go to a database?) for me to find?
| > |
| > | There must be guideance out there. Hope someone can help.
| > |
| > |
| >

 

[Andrew Murray]

Use the Database wizard.

Make up your form with the information for the user to enter. Right click,
form, properties, select "Send to Database" (or equivalent FP2003 command) then
connect to or let FP create the database you want, then upload the asp file, the
mdb file to the correct locations (e.g. mdb file would typically go in the fpdb
folder.)

To see the results, you would need to also create a 'results' page using the
database results/interface wizard(s).

Try www.frontpagewiz.com for tutorials on databases.

 

[Andrew Murray]

'where the information would be captured' means where it would saved/stored I
presume.

 

[Andrew Murray]

try www.hotscripts.com and look for "email list" type scripts. It is a
comprehensive site with scripts in the main languages for the web - javascript,
asp, asp .Net, vbscript, perl, php, etc.

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys,

Will look into these.

Regards,