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 Creating Forms to Email you back

 The purpose of this page is to show you how to insert a form into your html page that will email you back the completed form using our generic form handler in our Web Server's cgi-bin directory. 

 NOTE 1: This is only accessible by clients of eagle.ca. If you have a domain hosted at eagle.ca you will need to contact us so we can tell formmail to accept requests from your domain.

 NOTE 2: Since the spammers have decided it would be fun to send out junk mail using this script as well, you also have to tell us what email address you want your form's results emailed to if it isn't an eagle.ca email address. What fun!

 This page assumes you have some knowledge of creating forms in HTML. If you don't you should read up on creating forms and then come back here.

 I'm including two simple methods of collecting data from your viewers and emailing that info back to your email address at eagle.ca.

Method 1

• sends the completed form to (demo@eagle.ca)
• the subject is (Test Form 1)
• after submitting, displays (http://www.eagle.ca/~demo/thanks.html)
• includes their IP number and web browser information in email message
• uses pre-made (realname) and (email) variables
• and I put three test fields in for fun

Use the following sample source code:

      

<form method="POST" action="http://www.eagle.ca/cgi-bin/formmail.pl">

<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="demo@eagle.ca">

<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Test Form 1">

<input type="hidden" name="redirect" 

  value="http://www.eagle.ca/~demo/thanks.html">

<input type="hidden" name="env_report" 

  value="REMOTE_HOST,HTTP_USER_AGENT">



Full name: <input type="text" name="realname">

Your email Address: <input type="text" name="email">



Question 1: <input type="text" name="field1">

Question 2: <input type="text" name="field2">

Question 3: <input type="text" name="field3">

<input type="submit" value="Submit Test 1">  

<input type="reset" value="Reset">

Which produces the following looking form:

Your Full Name: 



Your Email Address: 



Question 1: 



Question 2: 



Question 3: 







   

And here is the email message returned:

Date sent:        Thu, 16 May 1999 18:37:56 -0400

To:               demo@eagle.ca

From:             gerry@eagle.ca (Gerald T. Freymann)

Subject:          Test Form 1



Below is the result of your feedback form.  It was submitted

by Gerald T. Freymann (gerry@eagle.ca) on

Thursday, May 16, 1999 at 18:37:56

--------------------------------------------------------------

field2: answer 2



field1: answer 1



field3: answer 3

--------------------------------------------------------------

REMOTE_HOST: notebook.eagle.ca

HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/2.01 (Win95; I)

Method 2

• sends the completed form to (demo@eagle.ca)
• the subject is (Test Form 2)
• after submitting, displays (Test Form 2 Results) title
• after submitting, shows (http://www.eagle.ca/index.html) return url
• after submitting, shows (Back to eagle.ca's Home Page) as return link
• after submitting, uses (BG_rainbow.jpg) as the background
• includes their ip and web browser information in email message
• uses premade (realname) and (email) variables
• makes email and comment required
• and I put two test fields in for fun

Use the following sample source code:

      

<form method="POST" action="http://www.eagle.ca/cgi-bin/formmail.pl">

<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="demo@eagle.ca">

<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Test Form 2">

<input type="hidden" name="env_report" 

  value="REMOTE_HOST,HTTP_USER_AGENT">

<input type="hidden" name="required" value="email,comment">

<input type="hidden" name="title" value="Test Form 2 Results">

<input type="hidden" name="return_link_url" 

  value="http://www.eagle.ca/index.html">

<input type="hidden" name="return_link_title" 

  value="Back to eagle.ca's Home Page">

<input type="hidden" name="background" 

  value="http://www.eagle.ca/~demo/BG_rainbow.jpg">



Full name: <input type="text" name="realname">

Your email Address: <input type="text" name="email">

Enter a Comment: <input type="text" name="comment">

Test field 2: <input type="text" name="field2">

Test field 3: <input type="text" name="field3">

<input type="submit" value="Submit Test 1">  

<input type="reset" value="Reset">

Your Full Name: 



Your Email Address: 



Enter a Comment: 



Test field 2: 



Test field 3: 







   

 This sends an email message back that looks like this:

Date sent:        Thu, 16 May 1999 18:39:31 -0400

To:               demo@eagle.ca

From:             gerry@eagle.ca (Gerald T. Freymann)

Subject:          Test Form 2



Below is the result of your feedback form.  It was submitted

by Gerald T. Freymann (gerry@eagle.ca) on

Thursday, May 16, 1999 at 18:39:31

--------------------------------------------------------------



field2: test field 2



field3: test field 3



comment: this is my comment



--------------------------------------------------------------

REMOTE_HOST: notebook.eagle.ca

HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/2.01 (Win95; I)

 And that is how you may use formmail.pl in your HTML pages! 

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