Bronson-tate.net offers all of our web hosting clients a method of receiving feed back from visitors of their site. Form-Mail is a simple CGI script written in Perl, that allows your visitors to submit information to you by completing a form that you create on your web site. You don't need to know anything about CGI scripting or Perl to use Form-Mail. Just the basic knowledge on how to use the HTML tag, <FORM>, is all that's required. Which coding method you use depends on what type of Domain you have. Non-Domain | Domain Please select one of the above.
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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 ie:Order Form">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="thankurl" VALUE="http://www.bronson-tate.net/your_dir/thankyou.htm">
The above 4 lines need to be placed at the beginning of your HTML coding that starts the forms.
- Line number 1 declares that the forms in your HTML page will be processed by the fmail.pl script in our CGI-BIN.
- Line number 2, tells the form script to send the completed forms to the specified recipient (your e-mail address of whomever's you set it for).
- Line number 3, tells the form script to place the declared subject line into the form sent to the recipient via e-mail.
- Finally, line number 4 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 form 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).
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There are basically two type of Domain accounts that we host.
- Package 1 accounts don't have their own CGI-BIN, and must use our Form-Mail script if you want to have feedback from your visitors.
- All Package 2 and above accounts have their own CGI-BIN, and may use our Form-Mail script or your own.
Package 1 Accounts:
Add the following 4 lines to your form document and your form will send the information to the specified e-mail address.
<FORM ACTION="http://www.bronson-tate.net/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 ie:Order Form">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="thankurl" VALUE="http://www.your_domain_name/thankyou.htm">
The above 4 lines need to be placed at the beginning of your HTML coding that starts the forms.
- Line number 1 declares that the forms in your HTML page will be processed by the fmail.pl script in our CGI-BIN.
- Line number 2, tells the form script to send the completed forms to the specified recipient (your e-mail address of whomever's you set it for).
- Line number 3, tells the form script to place the declared subject line into the form sent to the recipient via e-mail.
- Finally, line number 4 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 form 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).
Package 2 and above Accounts:
To use our Form-Mail, follow the instructions below.
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 ie:Order Form">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="thankurl" VALUE="http://www.your_domain_name/thankyou.htm">
The above 4 lines need to be placed at the beginning of your HTML coding that starts the forms.
- Line number 1 declares that the forms in your HTML page will be processed by the fmail.pl script in our CGI-BIN.
- Line number 2, tells the form script to send the completed forms to the specified recipient (your e-mail address of whomever's you set it for).
- Line number 3, tells the form script to place the declared subject line into the form sent to the recipient via e-mail.
- Finally, line number 4 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 form 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).
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