Dreamweaver MX 2004 Form Problem

Ben Horne · November 30th, 2003, 09:05 PM

Hi all,

I have a form in a Dreamweaver page that is called "Feedback" It's basically one of those typical forms with a submit button as well as a reset button. What I want to do is this: When the user clicks on the Submit button, the information needs to be e-mailed to my e-mail address. Here's the form code I have so far:

<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" onLoad="MM_preloadImages('assets/Home_down.png','assets/About_down.png','assets/Hobbies_down.png','assets/Photos_down.png','assets/Music_down.png','assets/RIAA_down.png','assets/Links_down.png','assets/DCHS_down.png')">
<form action="mailto:[email protected]" " method="get"" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="Feedback" id="Feedback"mailto:[email protected]>
<table width="90%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2">
<tr valign="top" bgcolor="#000000">

I think this is the right way to do it but I'm not sure.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

Ben Horne
Madison Area Technical College student
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I am one of those people that you call "Microsoft Access Freaks". I'm addicted to Access

Imar · December 1st, 2003, 04:32 AM

Hi there,

You can't really submit a form to a mailto: tag. All that mailto does is invoke the client's e-mail application.

If you need full control over what you want to send, you'll need a third party control that is capable of sending e-mail. Take a look here: http://www.aspemail.com/ for more info.

There are lots of other components as well. Search Google for component and e-mail and asp and you'll find lots of alternatives.

Regards,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Ben Horne · December 1st, 2003, 09:20 PM

Hi Imar,

I actually checked this out last night after I debugged the form. What you are saying about the mailto: tag is true. Is there any way to work around this issue? Also, Could I have the results sent to a text file that is within my website? I know that if I configured the form to do this, I'd have to create the text file and then place it in the website.

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Imar
Hi there,

You can't really submit a form to a mailto: tag. All that mailto does is invoke the client's e-mail application.

If you need full control over what you want to send, you'll need a third party control that is capable of sending e-mail. Take a look here: http://www.aspemail.com/ for more info.

There are lots of other components as well. Search Google for component and e-mail and asp and you'll find lots of alternatives.

Regards,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Ben Horne
Madison Area Technical College student
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I am one of those people that you call "Microsoft Access Freaks". I'm addicted to Access

Imar · December 2nd, 2003, 01:25 PM

Hi Ben,

The work around is to use a third party mail component at the server as I said in my previous post. That's the only thing I can think of.

If you want to write to a file, you have to use the FileSystemObject. If you search for FileSystemObject and Write and ASP you'll find plenty of examples explaining how to code a solution that writes to a file.

Cheers,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

MAMBONO · December 5th, 2003, 08:13 AM

I bet you are using an IIS platform, if so, you don't need to go very far to have the email function as IIS comes with an email component called CDONTS which stands for Collaborative Data Objects. You will just need to use this bit of code to send your email

<%
Set objCDO = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")

     'Declare variables to be used
    Dim objCDO 'CDONTS mailing object

    objCDO.To = "[email protected] (NAME TO SEND EMAIL TO)"
    objCDO.From = "[email protected] (MY NAME)"
    objCDO.cc = ""
    objCDO.Subject = "CDO EMAIL COMPONENT"
    objCDO.BodyFormat = 0
        objCDO.MailFormat = 0
        objCDO.Body = "Form Content goes here"

    objCDO.Send
    set objCDO = nothing
%>

Ben Horne · December 5th, 2003, 03:39 PM

I don't have IIS. Also, I have the Windows 98 OS. Basically, what Imar Spaanjaars told me about IIS is this: IIS is not compatible with Windows 98 so I have to get Personal Web Server. PWS is compatible with Windows 98

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by MAMBONO
I bet you are using an IIS platform, if so, you don't need to go very far to have the email function as IIS comes with an email component called CDONTS which stands for Collaborative Data Objects. You will just need to use this bit of code to send your email

<%
Set objCDO = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")

     'Declare variables to be used
    Dim objCDO 'CDONTS mailing object

    objCDO.To = "[email protected] (NAME TO SEND EMAIL TO)"
    objCDO.From = "[email protected] (MY NAME)"
    objCDO.cc = ""
    objCDO.Subject = "CDO EMAIL COMPONENT"
    objCDO.BodyFormat = 0
        objCDO.MailFormat = 0
        objCDO.Body = "Form Content goes here"

    objCDO.Send
    set objCDO = nothing
%>

Ben Horne
Madison Area Technical College student
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Go there. I have a lot of awesome photos that I rendered myself

MAMBONO · December 8th, 2003, 02:01 AM

Then in that case you will have to use 3rd Party components like ASPMail, ASPEmail and JMail, all of which you have to pay for. CDonts is free with Win2k and it has an SMTP server which you can use for your Email software like Eudora or Outlook incase your ISP restricts you on usage of its SMTP server. Most of all, the easiest is upgrade to 2k. I'm surprised to find someone still using PWS when IIS is in version 6 I guess.