how to make a form work

liunx · Jan 9, 2008

i don't know how to make form work. the ones i made need to go into people's e-mail accounts. And if they don't have hotmail or the defualt mail, then it won't work. How do i make it like everyone elses? where it just sends, and it's done, then it says "submission received"? <a class="postlink" href="http://www.geocities.com/properline/ebay_form.html">http://www.geocities.com/properline/ebay_form.html</a> 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> 
 
<html> 
<head> 
<title>The Beanie Shack > EBAY > Form</title> 
</head> 
 
<body text="white"> 
 
<center> 
 
 Ebay Form 
 
</center> 
 
<form method=post action="mailto:[email protected]"> 
<table width=100%> 
<tr> 
<td> 
<table CELLPADDING=10 align=center> 
<tr> 
<td align=center bgcolor="#4F4F4F"> 
Name 
</td> 
<td bgcolor="#9C9C9C"> 
<input type=text name="FirstName" size=10 maxlength=20"> 
<input type=text name="MiddleName" size=1 maxlength=20"> 
<input type=text name="LastName" size=10 maxlength=20"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td align=center bgcolor="#4F4F4F"> 
 Address 
</td> 
<td bgcolor="#9C9C9C"> 
<input type=text name="StreetAddress" size=25 maxlength=30"> 
 
<input type=text name="CityStateZipCode" size=25 maxlength=30"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td align=center bgcolor="#4F4F4F"> 
 Ebay ID : 
</td> 
<td bgcolor="#9C9C9C"> 
<input type=text name="ebayID" size=20 maxlength=20"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td align=center bgcolor="#4F4F4F"> 
 Auction Title : 
</td> 
<td bgcolor="#9C9C9C"> 
<input type=text name="AuctionTitle" size=20 maxlength=20"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td align=center bgcolor="#4F4F4F"> 
 Quantity : 
</td> 
<td bgcolor="#9C9C9C"> 
<input type=text name="quantity" size=20 maxlength=20"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td align=center bgcolor="#4F4F4F"> 
 Item Number(s) : 
</td> 
<td bgcolor="#9C9C9C"> 
<input type=text name="ItemNumbers" size=20 maxlength=100"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td align=center bgcolor="#4F4F4F"> 
 Payment : 
</td> 
<td bgcolor="#9C9C9C"> 
<select name="payment" size=1> 
<option> Chooose One </option> 
<option> Cash </option> 
<option> Money Order </option> 
<option> Check </option> 
<option> Paypal </option> 
</select> 
</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td align=center bgcolor="#4F4F4F"> 
 Date plan to send payment : 
</td> 
<td bgcolor="#9C9C9C"> 
<input type=text name="month" size=2 maxlength=2"> 
<input type=text name="day" size=2 maxlength=2"> 
<input type=text name="year" size=2 maxlength=2"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td colspan=2 align=center> 
<input type=submit value="Submit"> 
<input type=reset value="Reset"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
</tr> 
</trd> 
</table> 
<input type="hidden" name="next_url" value="submission.html"> 
</form> 
 
</body> 
</html>You have to do this with serverside scripting, asp, php, cgi, they all have this. You can't do it with plain html and/or javascript. There are plenty of free form-to-mail scripts around, and they are not hard to write yourself. But off course, your host has to support one of these languages. 
 
Or get a free form submitter at for example <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bravenet.com">http://www.bravenet.com</a>. language can i learn to make good forms that will work on geocities?Geocities doesn't support any of them. You can only use client side scripting with them. 
 
That takes us to the following: 
1. stay with geocities, and get a hosted form-to-mail service (like the one I suggested in my first reply), 
2. or change free hosts, where php/asp/cgi... is supported. Quality free ones are hard to find though

, 
3.Get paid hosting with a host that supports one of these scripting languages <- obviously the best choice, but not the cheapest one off course

there are a few sites out there that will actually let you link to there cgi script but still be sent to your email, just do a search and you will eventually find onerj, I think I have already told you want to do. you have posted 3 times trying to get this form setup and geocities can't do what you want to do, like I said here 
 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.htmlforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17293">http://www.htmlforums.com/showthread.ph ... adid=17293</a> 
 
I also gave you a site that will let you link directly to them. ike I said here 
 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.htmlforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17305">http://www.htmlforums.com/showthread.ph ... adid=17305</a> 
 
either do it that way or get off geocities. no if, ands, or buts

how to make a form work

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