HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

Sending Form Data via Email

If you don’t feel like messing with CGI scripts and can deal with not having your data perfectly formatted (or pre-processed by a script), you can have a visitor’s data be sent to you via email.

Figure 17.6. Here is a script used to send form data via email. You can find a commented version of this script on my Web site.

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To send form data via email:

1.	Type <form method="post".
2.	Type action=“emailform.php”, where emailform.php is the script that will send the form data to your email.
3.	Type >.
4.	Create the form’s contents, as described on pages 262–280.
5.	Type </form>.

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