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Name: Matchbox
Date: August 27, 2003 at 16:57:15 Pacific
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: 800 MHz/ 556
Comment:

Hi,

Would any1 know where i could find a good script for an email form (for my webpage)???

Thanks



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Response Number 1
Name: SN
Date: August 27, 2003 at 17:33:12 Pacific
Reply:

Although I was just rebuked today for giving out such a "complicated" script to a beginner, I continue to suggest the ones in perl at cgi101.com. I used them when I was a beginner, and didn't find them too difficult.

The rebuker recommended bravenet...I don't know what that is, but feel free to check it out.

-SN


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Response Number 2
Name: Sci-Guy
Date: August 27, 2003 at 19:14:45 Pacific
Reply:

Bravenet is fine if you don't mind all the garbage that you get with it. For best results, use some kind of server-side script, such as the perl ones SN suggests above.



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Response Number 3
Name: Infinite Recursion
Date: August 27, 2003 at 21:26:13 Pacific
Reply:

Write it in PHP :) it has a mail function.

Just be aware, regardless of what language you use, that people using web-based email like hotmail.com and yahoo.com will have a problem processing it.

Infinit Recursion


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Response Number 4
Name: SN
Date: August 27, 2003 at 23:29:05 Pacific
Reply:

IR-
I'm not sure why people with hotmail or yahoo would have difficulty using an e-mail form if it had a server side script in php or any other language to read it in and e-mail the contents to someone...

As we've discussed, these people have difficulty using forms of the type
<form action="mailto:me@mymail.com">
but that's not a php or perl approach...

I think I must have misunderstood you...Any clarifications?

Perl uses mail just like any other file IO. You open up the "mail file" and write to it. When you close it, the mail is sent.

I'm excited to get into php sometime soon so I can find out why you have fallen head over heels:-)

-SN
P.S. My AI class is 3 credits, thank goodness...I'd never do it otherwise. I've been in the program long enough to know that computer guys deserve our reputation of eccentricity, but I swear my AI classmates are a bunch of psychos. Are you all like this? I mean, these guys were SERIOUS about this stuff...I felt pretty out of place just taking the class cause it fit my schedule.


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Response Number 5
Name: Infinite Recursion
Date: August 27, 2003 at 23:50:23 Pacific
Reply:

SN:

I probably got off on some tangent regarding the usage of
<form action="mailto:me@mymail.com">, lol, I do that sometimes. As long as the script is supported server side, there should be no problem, obviously.

PHP is cool man, I guess I am pro PHP because I have just recently learned it, so it has "dominated my thoughts"... lol I used to like Perl a great deal... still do for some things.

Lol, I thought you said your AI class was only one credit, if so it wouldn't really be worth it... lol. Glad to hear that it is three credits. The guys in my AI class were truely -freaky- (lazy on team assignments too)... but there was this one (and only) female in class, that was damn sexy and she knew it to man... got a job straight out of college with Cellular One (programming w/ WAP). The cutest girl that I have ever seen, not just in CSC but in AI!?! WTF!

Most electives you will find those who are hardcore (i took some remote sensing [Geological Science] classes for some electives, and those guys were nothing but -rocks-)... its crazy, in the industry... it gets worse. lol

Infinite Recursion


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