I have been trying to learn how to submit a form with html but I am not having any luck with the cgi code.

I am tyring to send this http://www.drysnot.com/contact.html to an email address.

Whats the mail to command and should I use it?

If not is there another way to do it? My host provided me with instructions on how it works with the cgi bin but they are above my level lol.

Thanks for the advice.

Can you post the instructions from your host? There should be something like

<form action="PATH_TO_EMAIL_CGI" method="post">
blah blah blah
</form>

If you add that path to your code it should be fine (currently the action part of your form is an empty string).

Dave

Snot,
You may want to just try Googling around for a PHP-based contact form. These seem to be the most popular from my experience. They aren't too bad to install since they are so common to use.

Matt

You can save yourself a whole lot of trouble by just using a free forms developer site.
Saves you hassle of coding yourself. And no debugging involved.
I've used http://www.formlogix.com/ before and they're good. Best of all, it's free.

Originally Posted by MattCoops

You can save yourself a whole lot of trouble by just using a free forms developer site.
Saves you hassle of coding yourself. And no debugging involved.
I've used http://www.formlogix.com/ before and they're good. Best of all, it's free.

There would be only 1 problem. you will be sharing precious information with formlogix(.)com that way. Of course, it depend on how much your datas are private but I think that self-coding is the best, even if you can get nightmares.

Sending mail with PHP is very easy: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php