Form Mail

Discovery Webs servers are all configured with this feature. Simply add the following 4 lines to your form to activate this feature.

The above 4 lines need to be placed at the beginning of your HTML coding that starts the forms. The above 4 lines declare that the forms in your HTML page will be processed by the fmail.pl script in your CGI-BIN (Line 1). Then, the 2nd line tell the form script to send the completed forms to the specified recipient (your e-mail address of whomever's you set it for). The 3rd line tells the form script to place the declared subject line into the form sent to the recipient via e-mail. The 4th line 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 forms 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).

A web site wouldn't be complete without some simple method of sending comments or requesting information. A small form and simple CGI can be designed to facilitate such a task. The comments form and CGI source are presented in two sections below.