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[Cricket]

I'd like to put a form on our website that users can fill in to get more information. Something very simple: their email, their question.

I tried to use the one from CPanel, and got stuck. cgiemail is now installed in the cgi-bin directory, but I've no idea how to use it. The FAQ points to a tutorial for FormMail, which says configuring it is easy and then loses me. (Change the perl script?)

As I understand it, I have to do the following:

1. Install a cgi program on the server. (I think that's done, thanks to my experiments with CPanel, but I've no clue how it's configured or how to check. There is definitely a file named www.mydomain.ca/cgi-bin/cgiemail , but I'm not even sure if this is the program the tutoiral is for.)

2. Put something like the following in my html code:

<FORM method=POST action="http://www.mydomain.ca/cgi-bin/cgiemail">
Your email:
<BR>
<input type="text" name="email" size="40">
<BR>
Your question:
<BR>
<textarea cols="50" rows="15" name="question">
</textarea>
<BR>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</FORM>

3. The user fills in the form, hits "Send", and I will get an email with his email and question.


So:

a) How do I tell the cgi where to send the question? (webmaster@mydomain.ca)

b) Will the cgi tell the user they've done it right? (I just hate clicking a button and not knowing if it worked.)

Thanks in advance!

[kevin]

Hi,

There two form to email scripts in the control panel.

CGI EMail
FormMail Clone

Found under the "CGI Center".

The paths are:

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/cgiemail
http://www.domain.com/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi

It's easier to configure FormMail.
Put this in your forms page:


<form method="POST" action="http://www.domain.com/cgi-sys/FormMail.pl">
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="yourname@domain.com">

<p>Subject <input type="text" name="subject"><br>
Name <input type="text" name="realname"><br>
Your Comments <input type="text" name="comments"><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="Reset"></p>
</form>

Replace domain.com with your actual domain name
and yourname@domain.com with your email address.

More information at:

http://www.scriptarchive.com/readme/formmail.html

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For cgiemail:

Create a file such as template.txt with the following:

From: [email]
To: youremail@domain.com
Subject: questions three

What is your name? [yourname]
What is your quest? [quest]
What is your favourite colour? [colour]

Replace youremail@domain.com with your actual email address.

Upload this file to public_html directory.

Create html forms file, put the following code and upload to public_html:


<form method="POST" action="http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/cgiemail/template.txt">

Your e-mail address: <INPUT NAME="email"><p>
Your name: <INPUT NAME="yourname"><p>
Your quest: <INPUT NAME="quest"><p>
Your favourite colour: <INPUT NAME="colour"><p>

<br>
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="Reset"></p>
</form>

Replace domain.com with your actual domain name.

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The big difference between the two is the creation of a template file for cgiemail and FormMail will only send email results to the domain name hosted under Cpanel while cgiemail can be sent to external one.

[Cricket]

Aha!

That explains the problem. I was combining the instructions for two different methods (and I suspect the other sites I looked at added a third and fourth). I eventually got the cgiemail method working, but I'll use FormMail for the next one.

Thanks for the clarification, and I suggest the clarification be coppied to the FAQ.

Sandy
kpsweb@kortrightplayschool.ca
sandy@onebit.ca

[kevin]

It has been added!

Cheers