Email forms

Hey there.

Was just wondering how set up an email form that sends the results directly to a desired inbox without opening up outlook or other default mail clients.

I know very little about this topic but I have been on sites , especially support sites for software companies where it allow you to just fill in your name and email and sends the request immeidately upon clicking the submit button. I do not like the alternative where you click submit and it takes the information you have entered and puts it into an outlook express email.
thanks

Thanks very much Stevie, very helpful
Will

Hey
Thanks Kalon, thought it may be something like that,
cheers

You can create a html form that collects all the info you want emailed to you and then when the user clicks a “send” button, all the form info is sent to a server side script, like php, which uses the php mail() functon to send an email containing all the form info to you.

Creating the <form> bit in HTML is very straightforward. At it’s most basic, it’s just a series of <input> elements with different names, although you can be a lot more sophisticated than that if you want.

To see an example of how to create the PHP script, see http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4698246