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Posted: Sun, 2008-04-13 13:32

I was wondering how to have the subject of an email form be the same as a user defined entry that will be included in the mailed text. In specific, I want the user's email address to appear as the subject, but also be in the text of the email and only have to be entered in once by the user.

Also, is there a way to have the text show apostrophes instead of the code?

Thanks!

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What are you using to send

Posted: Sun, 2008-04-13 14:26

What are you using to send the email? PHP? ASP? .NET? CGI?

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I'm using FormMail.cgi.

Posted: Sun, 2008-04-13 15:08

I'm using FormMail.cgi. Didn't realize there were so many ways to submit a form! Do the other methods offer any advantage to a simple form?

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Sorry to butt in but this is

Posted: Sun, 2008-04-13 15:20

Sorry to butt in but this is a CSS forum and this is a purely scripting issue and most certainly doesn't belong in 'Beginners CSS'

Moving to 'Off Topic'

Please validate and ensure you have included a full Doctype before posting.
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personally i'd go with PHP

Posted: Tue, 2008-04-29 09:04

personally i'd go with PHP for a simple sendmail script if your host supports it.. just google php email form - i was new to all this all of about a month ago and php seemed to be the easiest option form html form handling... it's all very human readable 'n' all.

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PHP is the way to go

Posted: Tue, 2008-04-29 10:04

~Agreed...

I really dislike using CGI. I inherited the form-mail cgi script when I started working at the company I'm currently with. I dislike it a lot. There's a great page out there telling you about a PHP one which is easy to implement.

Here, this is the one I used. http://www.ibdhost.com/contact/ and I've used it on my site so you can have a look at burlster.com if you want to see it in action!!

Cheers,

J

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