Forms
Small World Tec's server is pre-configured with a 'fmail.pl' (form mail) script in its CGI-BIN. This script is designed to process any
forms that you write for your site. No knowledge of CGI is necessary to implement a working form on your website.
If you need help installing or writing custom cgi scripts Small World Tec can get you up and running at a minimum cost. Programmers receive $90.00 per hour with a minimum charge of $45.00 ($45.00 covers a majority of instalation problems).
Add the following 4 lines to your form document and your form will send the information to the specified e-mail address.
<form action="/cgi-bin/fmail.pl"
method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient"
value="email address to receive form info">
<input type="hidden" name="subject"
value="Name of form-Order Form">
<input type="hidden" name="thankurl"
value="http://yourdomain.com/thankyou.htm">
The above 4 lines need to be placed at the beginning of your HTML coding that starts the forms. The above 4 lines declare that the forms in your HTML page will be processed by the fmail.pl script in your CGI-BIN (Line 1). Then, the 2nd line tell the form script to send the completed forms to the specified recipient (your e-mail address of whomever's you set it for). The 3rd line tells the form script to place the declared subject line into the form sent to the recipient via e-mail. The 4th line tells the form script to send the visitor filling out the form to a page thanking them for filling out the form. These are the only codes you need to interface with to get the forms working.
Don't forget to create a 'thankyou'
page for your form.
Please note that if you DO NOT want
to use the "thankyou.htm" you can specify:
<input type="hidden" name="thankurl" value="no">
(this will display a default thank you page for you, saves some HTML coding)
Also, the place in your HTML code where you ask the visitor for their e-mail address change the coding to reflect something like this:
<input type=text name="username">What is your e-mail address?
The key parameter is the name="username". This will take the e-mail address from the form and place it into the e-mail form that is sent to the recipient (declared in Line 2 of the form coding). Otherwise, the recipient will receive mail from "No-Email-Given@whatever.com" (a null used in the form script if no e-mail address is found via the username parameter).