Auto Submitting a Form

**glennda** · 9th February 2010, 08:49 PM

Hiya,

I am trying to make the a form to go onto our website, so that parents can email in a change of data e.g email address. I don't think it should be done on the web personally but thats not up to me.

my question is how can i make this form auto submit without it having to open in outlook etc

the main parts of the page are here

HTML Code:

<script language ="JavaScript">
function SubmitForm() 
{
document.form1.action = "mailto:emailaddress@domain";
document.form1.submit() 
}
function ResetForm() 
{
document.form1.reset()
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form name="form1" action="">
  <p>Students Name  
    <input type="text" name="Students Name" />
  </p>
  <p>Your Name: <input type="text" name="parentsname" /> </p>
  <p>Contact Email: <input type="text" name="Contact Email" />&nbsp;</p>
  <p>DOB of Student: <input type="text" name="DOBStudent" /></p>
  <p>
  Details to be Updated:</p>
  <p>
    <input type="radio" name="dataforchange" value="Email address" />
    Email Address</p>
  <p>
    <input type="radio" name="dataforchange" value="home address" />
    Home Address  </p>
  <p>
    <input type="radio" name="dataforchange" value=" make wicki work" />
  I am only doing this so that you have to work lots!</p>
  <p>Please give further details here:</p>
  <p> 
    <textarea name="furtherinfo" cols="100" rows="5">Please Provide Further Information Here</textarea>
  ;</p>
  <p> <a href="javascript: SubmitForm()">Submit</a>
              </p>
</form>

Any help most apreciated

**Gatt** · 9th February 2010, 08:53 PM

I think you will need to use something like ASP/ASPX or PHP to acheive this - dont think it can be done via HTML/JScript

**glennda** · 9th February 2010, 09:36 PM

im guessing i need to change the

HTML Code:

<a href="javascript: SubmitForm()">Submit</a>

I know i will need to add an action into the

HTML Code:

<form name"dataform" method="post" action="submit.php">

or something similar, but i don't have a clue/have never used PHP or ASP.

do you know what i need to put in a PHP/asp Script to make it work?

**Gatt** · 9th February 2010, 09:38 PM

These links might help..

PHP Tutorial: Writing Your First PHP Script: A Feedback Form (a FormMail Script) (thesitewizard.com)

Google

**glennda** · 9th February 2010, 09:59 PM

Fantastic thanks for your help, it now works!

Toby

**glennda** · 9th February 2010, 10:42 PM

I have now managed to break it! by trying to update it to my own needs,

I have edited the PHP file so that it reads

PHP Code:

 <?php
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $studentname = $_REQUEST['StudentsName'] ;
  $parentname = $_REQUEST['parentsname'] ;
  $studentdob = $_REQUEST['DOBStudent'] ;
  $needforchange = $_REQUEST['needforchange'] ;
  $furtherinfo = $_REQUEST['furtherinfo'] ;
  mail( "user@domain.com", "Parent Update Form",
    $studentname, $parentname, $email, $studentdob, $needforchange, $furtherinfo, "From: $email" ) ;
  header( "Location: /Test/thankyou.html" );
?>

I have added the extra requests and put in my email address, but i don't seem to be getting the actual email, although it is going though the script seems to be running fine.

but as far as i can see it is correct

this is what i have editied

PHP Code:

 <?php
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;

  mail( "yourname@example.com", "Feedback Form Results",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: http://www.example.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

**glennda** · 9th February 2010, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by glennda

Fantastic thanks for your help, it now works!

Toby

I jumped th gun abit with this!

**srochford** · 10th February 2010, 11:08 AM

Something like this will work. First block is your data entry page, second is submit.php

I think the only real problem was that you were trying to send multiple chunks in the email and you can't - there has to be 1 item for sender, 1 for subject, 1 for message body, 1 for other headers so what you do is join them together (today's big word: concatenate :-)) and in PHP this is done with the "."

The other changes I've done are just a bit cosmetic - the "\t" character inserts a tab; the "\n " a new line. That works nicely in the plain text email but not on the web page so the final bit replaces the \n characters with HTML breaks (<br>)

One of the reasons I rarely use PHP is that I find it harder to debug than ASP or ASP.Net - the default settings seem to be that the page just completely dies if there are any errors (even just a missing ; right at the end!) whereas ASP etc will run to the error point so at least you've got a fighting chance!

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Update Info</title>
</head>

<body>
<form name="form1" action="submit.php" method="post">
  <p>Student Name: <input type="text" name="studentname" /></p>
  <p>Your Name: <input type="text" name="parentname" /> </p>
  <p>Contact Email: <input type="text" name="email" /></p>
  <p>DOB of Student: <input type="text" name="DOBStudent" /></p>
  <p>Details to be Updated:</p>
  <p><input type="radio" name="dataforchange" value="Email address" />Email Address</p>
  <p><input type="radio" name="dataforchange" value="home address" /> Home Address  </p>
  <p><input type="radio" name="dataforchange" value=" make wicki work" />I am only doing this so that you have to work lots!</p>
  <p>Please give further details here:</p>
  <p>
    <textarea name="furtherinfo" cols="100" rows="5">Please Provide Further Information Here</textarea>
  </p>
  <input type="submit" label="Submit"/>

</form>
</body>
</html>

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Thanks</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Thank you for your information</h1>
<?php
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $studentname = $_REQUEST['studentname'] ;
  $parentname = $_REQUEST['parentname'] ;
  $studentdob = $_REQUEST['DOBStudent'] ;
  $needforchange = $_REQUEST['dataforchange'] ;
  $furtherinfo = $_REQUEST['furtherinfo'] ;

  $body=$body."student:\t".$studentname."\n";
  $body=$body."DOB:\t".$studentdob."\n";
  $body=$body."Reason:\t".$needforchange."\n";
  $body=$body."Info:\t".$furtherinfo."\n";

  $headers="From:".$email;

  mail( "testemail@testemail.com", "Parent Update Form",$body,$headers) ;
  echo str_replace("\n","<br>",$body);
?>

<p>This has now been submitted</p>
</body>
</html>

**glennda** · 10th February 2010, 11:31 AM

Thanks, I will give it a try, but unfortuantly our web host seems to have removed my write permissions to out webserver root! so i cannot test it yet!

**glennda** · 10th February 2010, 12:03 PM

Its working!! now i think i stop tweaking it! It does what I need it to do, only cosmetic changes!

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