I have a registration form that viewers can register for a class, how do I make
it so they can select or input the information and then hit the submit button
and it will e-mail me the form? Here is the link...
http://www.relevanceonline.org/AlphaRegistration.html

Walt,

The simplest way is directly from the form:

<form id="contact_form" method="post" action="mailto:email@server.com"
enctype="text/plain">

This will put an e-mail into the user's outbox with the form info, like
Name Text=Some Name

Email Address=somename@server.com

Phone Number=111-222-3333

Submit=Submit

HTH

"Waltgx" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:g7tnku$6nr$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I have a registration form that viewers can register for a class, how do I
>make
> it so they can select or input the information and then hit the submit
> button
> and it will e-mail me the form? Here is the link...
> http://www.relevanceonline.org/AlphaRegistration.html
>

>The simplest way is directly from the form:
>
><form id="contact_form" method="post" action="mailto:email@server.com"
>enctype="text/plain">

It's also completely unreliable. Don't even consider this as an option - it
will fail too often. You need to use a server side script. Please use this
forum's search feature and search for 'form mail' for more info. This is the
most frequently asked question here.

There are only two ways to process form data -

1. Use mailto:name@example.com as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c) formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d) redirect the visitor
to some ending page

Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on their computer -
this eliminates public computers, or home users without email clients
installed (more and more it seems) - and on the installed email client
responding to
the mailto call. It is not possible to use this method *and* send the
visitor to a
thank you page as well.

Method 2a is the preferred method, since it eliminates the problems of
method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).

Method 2b would be to use some third-party form processing, like
http://www.bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/.

You would have to decide which of these methods is best for your needs,
but if it's Method 2a, then start by asking your host what they provide for
form
processing. If it's 2b, then read their FAQ/instructions carefully.


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"Waltgx" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:g7tnku$6nr$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I have a registration form that viewers can register for a class, how do I
>make
> it so they can select or input the information and then hit the submit
> button
> and it will e-mail me the form? Here is the link...
> http://www.relevanceonline.org/AlphaRegistration.html
>