I know there are dozens of form-to-email scripts out there, but I was 
wondering what people's experiences were of specific (and hopefully free!) 
form mail php scripts, and what the recommended solution is for a total 
novice who can just about spell "php".

The requirement is to have a required field - the email - and, if possible, 
to collect that email and use it in the 'from' field in the email that goes 
to the relevant web site owner's email address, so he can just click on 
'reply' and get on with it.  The latter's not a show-stopper, but the former 
is.

Many thanks in advance for contributions.

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<Henry Ross>
<Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:53:39 +0100>


> I know there are dozens of form-to-email scripts out there, but I was 
> wondering what people's experiences were of specific (and hopefully free!) 
> form mail php scripts, and what the recommended solution is for a total 
> novice who can just about spell "php".
> 
> The requirement is to have a required field - the email - and, if possible, 
> to collect that email and use it in the 'from' field in the email that goes 
> to the relevant web site owner's email address, so he can just click on 
> 'reply' and get on with it.  The latter's not a show-stopper, but the former 
> is.
> 

www.phpimage.co.uk has a contact php form script that you could use 
although you will need to add any chmod stuff yourself as i only use 
windows web hosting these days and i'm not the least bit interested in 
(touch your toes) linux web hosting files and folder permissions .

Either way , A couple of hours tinkering around should see you being 
able to write your own php form mail script as there isnt really much to 
it once you learn the basics of it .


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contained the following:

>The requirement is to have a required field - the email - and, if possible, 
>to collect that email and use it in the 'from' field in the email that goes 
>to the relevant web site owner's email address, so he can just click on 
>'reply' and get on with it.  The latter's not a show-stopper, but the former 
>is.
>
>Many thanks in advance for contributions. 

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in message , Henry Ross
('HR@HR.invalid') wrote:

> I know there are dozens of form-to-email scripts out there, but I was
> wondering what people's experiences were of specific (and hopefully
> free!) form mail php scripts, and what the recommended solution is for a
> total novice who can just about spell "php".
> 
> The requirement is to have a required field - the email - and, if
> possible, to collect that email and use it in the 'from' field in the
> email that goes to the relevant web site owner's email address, so he can
> just click on
> 'reply' and get on with it.  The latter's not a show-stopper, but the
> former is.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for contributions.

It's very easy to introduce security problems using web-to-email scripts.
Consequently, it's best to use a well-known, tried and tested one. One of
the best is cgiemail, here: http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail/ . It dates
back to about 1995, but that isn't a bad thing - it's had time to have all
the problems knocked out of it years ago.

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> <uk.net.web.authoring>
> <Henry Ross>
> <Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:53:39 +0100>
> 
>
>> I know there are dozens of form-to-email scripts out there, but I was
>> wondering what people's experiences were of specific (and hopefully 
>> free!)
>> form mail php scripts, and what the recommended solution is for a total
>> novice who can just about spell "php".
>>
>> The requirement is to have a required field - the email - and, if 
>> possible,
>> to collect that email and use it in the 'from' field in the email that 
>> goes
>> to the relevant web site owner's email address, so he can just click on
>> 'reply' and get on with it.  The latter's not a show-stopper, but the 
>> former
>> is.
>>
>
> www.phpimage.co.uk has a contact php form script that you could use
> although you will need to add any chmod stuff yourself as i only use
> windows web hosting these days and i'm not the least bit interested in
> (touch your toes) linux web hosting files and folder permissions .

PHP files use the default 644 permissions set by most FTP programs, the same 
as html pages.


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<Gordon Hudson>
<Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:51:25 +0100>


> > www.phpimage.co.uk has a contact php form script that you could use
> > although you will need to add any chmod stuff yourself as i only use
> > windows web hosting these days and i'm not the least bit interested in
> > (touch your toes) linux web hosting files and folder permissions .
> 
> PHP files use the default 644 permissions set by most FTP programs, the same 
> as html pages.
> 

On any support forum for whatever app - linux file and folder permission 
issues are a constant theme and never seem to go away .

While making a script exclusive to windows web hosting obviously means 
only a fraction of potential users will ever use it - but thats a price 
a willing to pay to spare myself the pain from brain dead idiots .

Quite frankly i'm surprised that so many people can be bothered with 
linux web hosting as all it needs is one file or folder permission to be 
wrong for the script to stop working properly .


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