Webpage Email form

[rhysduck]

A very simple concept;
I want a form that people have to fill out and click Submit and it emails me the forms details.

I can get this setup working perfectly but it uses a HTML email form that needs permission from the the installed email client to send the email.. i don't want this as i dont want it relying on the machine having a email client installed.

What i want is for it do it all itself... I have exchange servers I can use but don't know how to accomplish it... JS, PHP maybe?

Any help appreciated... thanks

 

[rhysduck]

Thanks guys.
Being quite limited to what I can do with the webpage I've been given (and not knowing enough about sql databases) it's really not an option to do it that way unfortunately. unless there's another option?

I've had a look at that link thanks and shall have a play with it later today.

 

[rhysduck]

Maybe I haven't fully understood the problem, but on the html form, you can set the 'form action' as the link to a processing page on your site, where the submit button will send the form details to this page, this page will collect the form information, process it into an E-mail, and send you an E-mail through your website?

ok, the problem is that I have created a html email form that emails me the forms details BUT requires the computer having a mail client installed and sends the information through that. I don't want the user to be able to see any of this and after clicking SUBMIT everything is done in the background. Unfortunately my PHP skills are... zero. I know it can be achieved but I don't know how.
My form action is:

<form action="mailto:emailaddress" method="post"  enctype="text/plain">

but it does the above and not in the background.

This. Unless I'm understanding it wrong as well, surely you can just set the action for your form as, say, a PHP script that takes the data from the form and sends it to your email address?

If PHP can accomplish what I want I may need to dig out some books on PHP. Thanks.

Hope I don't sound to confusing