Well, I feel really stupid having to be here seeing as how I took a degree in
web design, but I obviously never paid attention in the class where we learned
forms oh so many years ago.

I am working in Dreamweaver 8, and I have created a simple form:
http://www.realmofmystery.com/app.html

This is a free website I am doing for some friends, so nothing fancy. And, I
learned web design before all the CGI and PHP stuff got big, so I prefer to do
things simply.

The form works fine, emails the results like perfect, but it refuses to
redirect the page to the confirmation. I thought I could add an onClick to the
submit button, but this cancels out the form processing.

Any ideas? I don't know enough about JavaScript to write my own script, but I
am assuming the onClick would work if there was also a time delay written into
the script that gave the form enough time to submit before redirecting to the
confirmation page.

Also - (I know, eight million questions) when I submit the form, it uses my
Outlook to send it, but what about for people who only use server based emails
like gmail and hotmail and such? How does it send for them?

Let me know if you need any other information.

Again, thanks in advance!

Select the form, then in properties inspector set the action of the form and
then browse to the confirmation page.
Dave
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> Well, I feel really stupid having to be here seeing as how I took a degree
in
> web design, but I obviously never paid attention in the class where we
learned
> forms oh so many years ago.
>
> I am working in Dreamweaver 8, and I have created a simple form:
> http://www.realmofmystery.com/app.html
>
> This is a free website I am doing for some friends, so nothing fancy.
And, I
> learned web design before all the CGI and PHP stuff got big, so I prefer
to do
> things simply.
>
> The form works fine, emails the results like perfect, but it refuses to
> redirect the page to the confirmation. I thought I could add an onClick to
the
> submit button, but this cancels out the form processing.
>
> Any ideas? I don't know enough about JavaScript to write my own script,
but I
> am assuming the onClick would work if there was also a time delay written
into
> the script that gave the form enough time to submit before redirecting to
the
> confirmation page.
>
> Also - (I know, eight million questions) when I submit the form, it uses
my
> Outlook to send it, but what about for people who only use server based
emails
> like gmail and hotmail and such? How does it send for them?
>
> Let me know if you need any other information.
>
> Again, thanks in advance!
>
>

> I am working in Dreamweaver 8, and I have created a simple form:
> http://www.realmofmystery.com/app.html

<form action="mailto:admin@example.com"


a form field with the name "redirect" will only do a redirect IF the form is
submitted to a server side script that will DO something when it sees it.

set the form's action to submit to a server side script to send the email
and do the redirect.

see the hosting's FAQ/support pages.
If the hosting has a control panel or CPanel, look in there.

if no pre-installed form script- what type of server side scripting can be
used with that hosting?

--
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver

http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

I just encountered this with this script. There should be documentation on the
help files... When the directory is set up for your site, they should have
included the gdform.asp file in your main directory. The support directions
should explicitly guide you through the process to assign the correct email
destination for the results...

.... along with the specifying the thankyou filename and location!

> I just encountered this with this script. There should be documentation on the
> help files...

talk to godaddy.
Better- change hosts.

--
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver

http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

On the help files at my hosting account? Because I looked through them and didn't see anything...

> On the help files at my hosting account? Because I looked through them and
> didn't see anything...

I am guessing you are hosted with someone who is reselling for godaddy.

http://help.godaddy.com/topic/100/article/512

Not the line that you must go into the hosting control panel and set an
email address.


--
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver

http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

Yeah, I actually found the support here:
http://help.securepaynet.net/topic/1...rog_id=domains

and I went into the control panel and I went in and put the email in.
Everytime I submit the form now, I get this error:

Error creating file! Directory may not be writable or may not exist.
Unable to process request.

Yeah, on the hosting help files (I was using GoDaddy). If you search for
"scripts" or "email" within the support documentation it should be there. But
let me tell ya, I used the old analog phone to get pointed in the right
direction and it saved lots of time! Good luck