Introduction ============ This script is designed to allow someone with little knowledge of scripting, but some knowledge of html to create an email "contact" form. When designing this script, I had 2 major goals. 1. Little-to-no configuration. ------------------------------ The only necessary configuration in the script is to set your email address you would like to receive the emails at. There are other configuration options if you would like to have extra features (like a redirect page or captcha spam protection) but you CAN just set your email address in the config(config.php), point your form to the script (
) and it will send you all data from the sctipt in an email.emails. 2. Compatability ---------------- I wanted this script to be compatible with as many servers as possible with out having to make any server side settings. This is why I wrote it in php, instead of python. With most hosts, you will already have php and sendmail installed, configured and ready to go. The basic setup =============== With the most basic setup, you get a script that accepts a form action by the POST method and then send the information using a template you create to form the email data how you would like it. Building the form html ---------------------- In order to have a form on your site, you must add the form to one of your html pages. This can be done just by editing the html page with a text editor, or by most webbuilding softwares by adding the form fields. If you use a site building software, you may still need to edit the html code by hand, so I'll breifly go over the html tags used to build the form and what they do. There are 2 basic html tags used when building a form. 1.
tag ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All tags (we'll talk about those next) must go between the
and
tags in your html code. The
tag also contains some info