Trouble sending emails from a html form.

nucoder

Hi,
I'm pretty much a novice to coding websites,
and I can only do basic html and some css styling.
I tried to create some booking forms for the following website.
www.finglasfrightnight.com

However it turns out that html is not enough to send an
email from an input form on a website.
You need to use need to use php for serverside and not
clientside scripting.

I would love nothing more that to sit down and learn how to do
this, and I will eventually. but there are time contraints

I was wondering could I have some help in converting these basic
forms from html into php and have them function in such a way
that I can send an email easily from these forms on the website.
thanks.
Is it easy?

Here is an example of the one of the booking forms below.


<!--beginning of Art Workshop Booking Form--> <form action="" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<form name="input" action="html_form_action.asp" method="get">

<p class="eventparagraph"> Tick below to verify the name of the form:<br> <br>

<input type="radio" name ="Application" value ="Art work shop form">Art Workshop Booking Form<br>
<br> Name of Parent/Guardian: <input type="text" name="Name of group" value=""><br> <br>

<br> Telephone: <input type="text" name="Telephone" value=""> <br>
<br>

<br> Address:

<br>
<TEXTAREA NAME="address"
ROWS="4" COLS="40">
Please enter your address
</TEXTAREA>
<br>

<br>
Email: <input type="text" name="Email" value=""><br>

<br>

Name/age of children:

<br>
<TEXTAREA NAME="name/ageofchildren"

ROWS="4" COLS="40">

Please enter the name/age of your children

</TEXTAREA>

<br>

<br>

Date: <input type="text" name="Date" value=""><br>

<br>

<br>

<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">
<br>

<br>

Please email completed form to Please note times are subject to change
<br>
</p>

</form> <!--End of Art Workshop Booking Form-->

Graham

Go and google "php send mail script" and you'll get several hundred thousand examples, tutorials, videos....

(not being smart here, it's probably one of the most common requirements when you're starting out with php)

yoyo

In your example you are using an asp script to process the email? PHP for mail forms is fairly easy, as Graham says plenty of tutorials on Google. There is a bit of a learning curve if your not that familiar with HTML and any type of programming (Java/C/JavaScript etc.). You'll likely want to use some client-side JavaScript for form validation as well. There's probably plenty of pre-built PHP demo forms out there you should be able to implement using your own requirements however,

Nick

Graham

Well spotted Nick, I completely missed the asp page hidden in there.

There's hundreds of classic asp sample scripts for sending mail out there too.

tricky D

There's also form sending widgets out there which might be worth a look for those less than familiar with scripting. Don't usually use them myself so no specific recommendations available.

nucoder

Yeh, I was having a look at them when I googled them alright, unfortunately, time constraints again, and the fact that I don't have a clue about javascript.
Thanks for all your suggestions though, appreciate it.

nucoder

Whats the best method in which I can learn php?

yoyo

nucoder wrote: »

Whats the best method in which I can learn php?

See here for a simple mail form you could build on. Would recommend stripping out the table tags completely (table, tr, td) and replacing the new line with a <br /> but either way it should work fine

Nick

nucoder

yoyo wrote: »

See here for a simple mail form you could build on. Would recommend stripping out the table tags completely (table, tr, td) and replacing the new line with a <br /> but either way it should work fine

Nick

thanks