email forms

[truthlover]

Is it possible to have non-cgi email form that doesnt launch the email program used on the computer it's being sent from?

Thanks!

[acoder]

Welcome to TSDN!

For that, you will need some server-side code to actually send the email.

[truthlover]

Welcome to TSDN!.

Thanks for the welcome :)

For that, you will need some server-side code to actually send the email.

I dont imagine there's a generic code someone could provide for that, is there? The situation is I'm building a website for a school, but it's hosted by someone who has a server in their house and for some reason, there are all kinds of barriers to communicating with him (on his end, not the school).

The users of the site are mostly non-computer users, so the javascript code i found that throws up warnings or even opens an email program on someone just wouldnt work.

I'd use a cgi script, but that would require me to have to get information from this person.

So i was hoping for a script that wouldnt envolve my needing to ask him any questions.

Any suggestions?

TIA
-Barb

[acoder]

JavaScript has no means of sending email.

You will therefore need a server-side language to send the email. Which language does your host support? Some possibilities are PHP, ASP, Perl, Coldfusion, JSP, etc.

[truthlover]

Which language does your host support?

I dont know. I've been having trouble with the owner of the server the site is being hosted on not wanting to communicate with the webmaster. That's why i was hoping for a script or some other method that would allow me to bypass needing to get information from him.

[acoder]

I'm afraid that's the only way unless you use ActiveX with IE only (though I don't know if that's even possible). The problem (if it even works) would be that when using ActiveX, your users could only use IE and you will need to make sure that the settings are low enough to allow ActiveX to run (not a good idea).