why wont my form work?

hargi · 26 Mar 2007 at 19:10

i thought that if you use

Code:

<form action="Mailto:[email protected]" enctype="text/plain" method="post" name="application">

at the top of your form everything entered into it will get sent as a email to that addy without any other input from the user.
and that the email i recive would say
name: pesrons name
address: adress ect
but using the methord above i click submit and i get a e mail window pop up?

How can i get it so that the form sends itself when submit is clicked

TIA

marc2003 · 26 Mar 2007 at 19:37

you'll need to use a server side script of some sort. mailto: is like a url, it's only a link.

hargi · 26 Mar 2007 at 19:40

oh dear
what server side script can i get to run it what should i be looking for?

Freakish_05 · 26 Mar 2007 at 21:06

What programming languages does your web server support? This info is crucial to the scripts people will reccommend.

hargi · 27 Mar 2007 at 10:02

Php Mysql, im with vidahost

unwashed potato! · 27 Mar 2007 at 10:29

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/php_coding/forums_and_guestbooks/

here you go my friend, some good tutorials on how to do php forms. If your not up for that i have a simple php form that asks for name and email and a message and checks if they are empty and if email is an email which you can have, though im pretty sure it isn't the most secure, but then i have never had spam from it since october so who knows