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An Email form with email response

Is there a free one lurking out there?

Googly

11:13 am on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

I did post this question in the Perl and PHP CGI Scripting forum, but soon realised that it wasn't very likely that I would get the answer there, because most people there have no need for what I require. I have also researched this but have had no joy.

Okay, on this particular server I do not have any access to implement dynamic pages/scripts cgi etc. I can only use html and javascript.
I have been searching the net recently and found a couple of
websites using cgi (or similar) which provide the opportunity to use a program on their server to evaluate and process html forms.

I have recently used one and it has been very effective. The user fills in an html form on my website, the form is sent to this service provider's server where it is processed and is then sent to my email address. The user is sent to a confirmation page. So this is all free and reliable.

Which is all fine and dandy, but does anyone know of a similar service, which also automatically sends an email response to the submitter? Did i mention it needed to be free?

Hope someone can help
Googly

Birdman

12:29 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Are you positive you can't use php or asp? Each language is aqlmost standard on their respective platforms(*nix or M$).

Your provider may tell you nothing is available, but it may really be.

Try making two test pages:

test.asp
<html>
<body>
<%
response.write("Hello World!")
%>
</body>
</html>

test.php
<html>
<body>
<?php
echo "Hello World!";
?>
</body>
</html>

Upload and open each page. If one works, you are set. If you already tried this, sorry. Just trying to help :)

Googly

12:56 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

Sorry Birdman, tried it, PHP and asp are the next level up (cost) in our web hosting, this isn't a commercial project. Original question still stands.

Cheers
Googly

BlobFisk

12:59 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hey Googly,

Are you sure that your current hosting package does not include a cgi-bin? The vast majority of hosting give you a cgi-bin with formmail, guestbook etc.?

Birdman

1:05 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Here's one: Whiz Mail [whiz-mail.cc]

Googly

3:30 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

Blobfisk, There are a set of tools available to me with my webhost. These are basic however. I have a formmail type service, but it is minimal and I want to have more features, like the autoresponder. Even though I have tools such as guestbooks etc I can't put my own scripts up. Although there is a folder called _zisp_ but I don't think it'll help me, it seems to be a halfway house between my html pages and the cgi scripts on their own server.?

Thanks for the WHIZ Birdman. i am currently hoping for some support from the people who run it. I logged in and went to their form wizard which didn't work!

So, if anyone has any other similar free services they know of then please post! It's a shame cos Whiz looks very promising.

Googly

Googly

9:53 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

Birdman you're a genius

They have now fixed the problem on the Whiz website and I'm pretty impressed with it. It is more or less exactly what i was after. I searched google a lot, can I ask you where you found it or was it just a memory from your past?

Googly

Birdman

3:47 am on Feb 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

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cgi-resource.com: remotely hosted form processing [cgi-resources.com] is where I found it. I can't remember the search words I used.

Glad it helped :)