Feedback form

[evolution88]

Quick question.

I have a website and I want the visitor to be able to leave feedback. So I want to setup a blank box and then a submit button that would send it directly to my email. What would be the best way to do it?

Thanks

[MamaDawg]

Hi and welcome -

To do that, you need a form in your web page (with a textarea and the submit button) which calls a server-side program to process and mail the form input to you. Some hosting plans include a ready-to-use form mailer, if yours does not, search the script sites for "form mailer".

This assumes you have support for server-side processing on your account - Perl/CGI, PHP, ASP ...

Hope this helps!

[mblair]

To do this reliably it has to be done on the server side. Most web hosting companies have set up specific programs and provide instructions with how to set them up to work with forms on your website.

It involves have the action statement in the form tag go to a script that proccesses the form accoring to some preset paramaters which are usually configured in the script itself, a configuration file for the script, or the hidden varaibles in your form.

Hopefully this helps! If they don't have a script setup for you then it gets a little trickier. :-)

[evolution88]

Thanks for the help!

[sirkei]

If you want to avoid the hassle of looking at all the codes installing the script, you can try using a third party form service.

Usually these kind of third parties require a link back. Depends on you. But it is fast to set up. Well, some even offer pay option without the link back. Just do a search and i guess you can find a few.