Submit buttons...

[maxbennett]

I have a website that gets updated often, so I decided that I'd add a subscription thing (I'll email everyone when I update the website). The only way I knew how to do it was by saying on the homepage "To subscribe to my website, email me saying you'd like to do so...".

What I want is a text box where the viewer would type their email address, and then a submit button that emails me the email address the viewer typed in. I've tried to add a form with some stuff but I haven't got a clue what to do. Any help?

 

[AxileMedia]

This message may be late, but I cna offer a little help. You are going to need to set the <form></form> around a text input box as well as a submit button. After doing that you will need to set the "value(s)" of the form, which can be hidden, and set up the submit button to go to a cgi bin. This by no means is a complete explination, but it is a start. Hope this helps

 

[wiser3]

What needs to happen is that when someone clicks "Submit" the form information is sent to a program on the server that processing the information in some way and returns a new page to the user. In you case "processing the information in some way" would be to check that the information is a valid email address and then email it to you.

Considering your asking this question i bet you don't know how to make a server side program that can do that, so i'll point you to my favorite:

http://www.mindpalette.com/formprocessing/index.php

There are two version of this script, you only need the free version, but if you want the bells and whistles go ahead and buy the other one.