Form send me an email

[Jane Here]

When a user fills in a form on a page, I correctly get an email with the
contents of the form.

Howvere, if I don't want to use the FP extensions, is there a way for the
form to still send me an email?

 

[Ronx]

You would have to write a form handler in Perl, ASP, PHP or whatever
language your host supports.
There are pre-written scripts available, such as formmail (uses Perl/CGI) of
varying quality, security and price, but your host must support the language
used.

 

[Jane Here]

I am with http://lunarpages.com/
According to their web site they seem to support everything: PHP, JSP*,
ASP*, & PERL

Is there any particular script or solution you could mention that is
resonably easy to implement?

I need this solution because I don't want my email to be apparent to a
spammer who looks through my FrontPage code.

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Not using the FP form handlers there is not. You ISP / WPP may offer an alternative check with them. Also, you may wish to look at
SEND IT! which will work on IIS severs that allow CGI.

http://www.websunlimited.com/sendit/sendit.htm

 

[Ronx]

I have used PERL and ASP as form handlers, and, given the choice, I would
pick ASP on a Windows server.
Jim Buyens has a comprehensive article regarding sending email using ASP on
Windows at
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=46

or an easier example at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ding_smtp_mail_by_port_25_using_cdosys_vb.asp

(watch for link wrapping)

 

[Tomas]

Take a look at http://phpforms.net
It's the best tool for web forms creation I've ever saw. I've found it
to be a great solution to my needs. Hope that it meets yours.

 

[Andrew Murray]

No, not with Frontpage - the extensions provide that functionality. However you
can use an asp script, or perl script etc to send the email, provided your host
allows you to run third-party scripts on their server (they may even provide a
basic 'sendmail' script - ask them).

 

[Andrew Murray]

you need a script that codes the email into the script itself, not using a
"hidden" field because that is still viewable by "view code" and spam-bots can
apparently track and harvest emails within <input type="hidden"
email="(e-mail address removed)"> tags.

try this one
http://nuts4asp.com/scrips/pfeed/

Instructions are easy, you cut and paste the code from the site, into notepad;
then copy/paste into the code view of Frontpage.

Publish all the files and you will have a simple form to email script functioning
in no time.