Auto Submitting a Form

[glennda]

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

 

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




</pre><form name="form1" action="">
 
Students Name  
   
 
 
Your Name:  
 
Contact Email:  
 
DOB of Student: 
 

 Details to be Updated:
 

   
   Email Address
 

   
   Home Address  
 

   
 I am only doing this so that you have to work lots!
 
Please give further details here:
 
 
   Please Provide Further Information Here
 ;
 
 Submit
             
<

 

Any help most apreciated

[Gatt]

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]

im guessing i need to change the

Submit

I know i will need to add an action into the

</pre><form name 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]

These links might help..

 

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

 

Google

[glennda]

Fantastic thanks for your help, it now works!

 

Toby

[glennda]

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

  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
 $studentname = $_REQUEST['StudentsName'] ;
 $parentname = $_REQUEST['parentsname'] ;
 $studentdob = $_REQUEST['DOBStudent'] ;
 $needforchange = $_REQUEST['needforchange'] ;
 $furtherinfo = $_REQUEST['furtherinfo'] ;
 mail( "[email protected]", "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

  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
 $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;

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

[glennda]

Fantastic thanks for your help, it now works!

 

Toby

 

I jumped th gun abit with this!

[srochford]

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 (

)

 

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!

 

 

Update Info



</pre><form name="form1" action="submit.php" method="post">
 
Student Name: 
 
Your Name:  
 
Contact Email: 
 
DOB of Student: 
 
Details to be Updated:
 
Email Address
 
 Home Address  
 
I am only doing this so that you have to work lots!
 
Please give further details here:
 

   Please Provide Further Information Here
 
 

</form><br><b

Thanks


Thank you for your information
 $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( "[email protected]", "Parent Update Form",$body,$headers) ;
 echo str_replace("\n","
",$body);
?>


This has now been submitted

[glennda]

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]

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