Basic Web Data Capture

Basic Web Data Capture

wanting to capture name, address, and some basic info via forms/input boxes, whatever (its for a quotation system) and then email this to the relevant person...

How hard is this to do?

Some pointers would be good. The fact that i know nothing about this sort of thing doesn't seem to phase my boss at all!!

I presume you will need to use a mail relay? How do you set that up?

its pissoir, i did it at college but alas ive forgotten its not hard to do tho, if you find it on a tutorial site let me know the link

about as much use as a cock flavoured lollipop!

if you want to be a REAL geek you need to know more than this chris!!!

google - theres hundreds if not thousands of tutorials!

lazy lazy people!

ps. yes u need an smtp server to relay through, theres a start for ya

I would use ASP to process the data and then relay through an SMTP..

You could use PHP though..

Well I have found a php script that is very simple...didnt require any SMTP config so i assume it must just use the mail on the host....i have modified it for my needs, sends data from a form.

The script:



<?

// ------------- CONFIGURABLE SECTION ------------------------

// $mailto - set to the email address you want the form
// sent to, eg
//$mailto = "youremailaddress@example.com" ;

$mailto = 'myemailaddress@mywork.com' ;

// $subject - set to the Subject line of the email, eg
//$subject = "Feedback Form" ;

$subject = "Quote Recieved" ;

// the pages to be displayed, eg
//$formurl = "http://www.example.com/feedback.html" ;
//$errorurl = "http://www.example.com/error.html" ;
//$thankyouurl = "http://www.example.com/thankyou.html" ;

$formurl = "http://www.example.com/feedback.html" ;
$errorurl = "http://www.example.com/error.html" ;
$thankyouurl = "http://www.example.com/thanks.html" ;

$uself = 0;

// -------------------- END OF CONFIGURABLE SECTION (ahem)---------------

$headersep = (!isset( $uself ) || ($uself == 0)) ? "\r\n" : "\n" ;
$name = $_POST['name'] ;
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$telephone = $_POST['telephone'] ;
$comments = $_POST['comments'] ;
$http_referrer = getenv( "HTTP_REFERER" );

if (!isset($_POST['email'])) {
header( "Location: $formurl" );
exit ;
}
if (empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($telephone) || empty($comments)) {
header( "Location: $errorurl" );
exit ;
}
if ( ereg( "[\r\n]", $name ) || ereg( "[\r\n]", $email ) || ereg( "[\r\n]", $telephone )) {
header( "Location: $errorurl" );
exit ;
}

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
$comments = stripslashes( $comments );
}

$messageproper =

"New Quote Requested from Todd & Cue Pub Quote\n" .
"---------------------------------------------\n\n" .
"Name of sender: $name\n" .
"Email Address: $email\n" .
"Telephone Number: $telephone\n" .
"\n" .
"Details:\n\n" .
$comments .
"\n\n\n" ;

mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper,
"From: \"$name\" <$email>" . $headersep . "Reply-To: \"$name\" <$email>" . $headersep . "X-Mailer: chfeedback.php 2.07" );
header( "Location: $thankyouurl" );
exit ;

?>

So just using it with a html form...just need to make it bigger!

It could be used for mischief lol, if the recipient doesnt know the crack about email headers, you could send it from "admin@microsoft.com"