html to send mail

[kdw3]

Does some html code exist out there that can send an email directly from your webpage? Sort of like a contact us page...

Thank you.

[bobbyblades]

html cannot send mail, you need an initial form page, than a separate page which handles the form's values depending on on how the form sent them (post, get, etc.) that second page can then send the email via a server side script like php which filters the form values and sends the email(as long as port 25 is not blocked)

[knifeinback]

yeah, you need to make a html form. And from there use something like PHP.

alternativly, you can make a link which would open a default mail client and have the adress specified come up when the link was clicked.

But this isn't a good idea as heaps of people don't use/have a mail client anyway.

[flabbyrabbit]

Check out this: http://uk3.php.net/function.mail, should be able to help.

Flabby Rabibt

[dafunkymunky]

and giving ppl option to choose whom to mail is not a good ideq unless they have to select from a listbox.. you can mail in anybody's name if you give a text box, to anybody..

[bobbyblades]

not a good idea to have email address's in plain html either, unless those people want to be spammed to death, and if email address's are on a page in plain sight or in a select list a bot will eat them up.

[dafunkymunky]

Haha.. Ya i agree with bobbyblade, There is a way to hide your id using javascript.