May I have some form help

[ganderla]

I have a simple form that users can sign up for my news letter.

The form is set up to send me an email from whatever email address they enter. Yahoo hosting will not allow this. So on the form, I want it to look at the PHP include that is housed on another domain name and the take them back to a thank you page on the first domain.
Is this a possibility?

[ergophobe]

What will Yahoo hosting allow?

Assuming that you can create PHP scripts and can build your own form, why not just send the info sent straight to a page on the other domain?

Or is this a form which must be submitted to a specific Yahoo! address and you want to also add processing of an e-mail address? That might make things more complex... but we'll leave that until you answer.

Tom

[ganderla]

For being 40 dollars a month, they do not offer much.
They are reliable and give you a ton bandwidth.
I am not very skilled in PHP, a friend did the form.
Do you mean send them to a thank you page on the other domain?
If I stay on the yahoo domain, it must be sent from an email addres in my domain and I only get 250 a day, way to little. So, in short, I think this is complex.

[IanKelley]

You're paying $40 a month for hosting that doesn't allow PHP? Don't try to come up with workarounds, just find a new host :-)

For $40 a month you can get enterprise level bandwidth almost anywhere and unlimited bandwidth at a lot of hosts (and I'm referring to hosts on fast networks that don't overcrowd).

[ergophobe]

I have to agree with Ian.

$40/month should get you a fairly nice set up. You would probably lose some reliability and bandwidth, but honestly I can think of plans for $6/month that would give you more features. For $40/month you certainly ought to be able to find a plan that gives you 35GB of transfer.

Yahoo throws in a domain name, but that only costs $8/year, so I wouldn't consider that a factor.

Anyway, back to your original problem... Maybe I'm just being dense here, but I'm having a little trouble understanding exactly what the limitation is. As I understand, you have:

- a Yahoo account and another account, each with their own domain name.
- both have PHP and MySQL
- you want to send e-mails (like confirmation e-mails or 1.0x10^9 offers for cheap viagra or something) and Yahoo limits you to 250/day.
- therefore you need to send the e-mails from the second account.

What I don't understand, is

- what is the form doing, besides getting someone's email address?
- why isn't the form simply on the second account to being with?
- if not actually being served by the second account, why isn't the form being submitted to the second account which would do all the processing? Are you using some credit card processing that Yahoo offers? If that's the case, and you have a merchant account somewhere, ask your bank to do it for you (for a fee, but at Bank of America, it's fairly cheap), and if they won't find a new bank.

Sorry I can't be more help, but I'm just trying to understand exactly what your needs and limitations are.

Cheers,

Tom