Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 07/06/07 21:15

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Kennedy"
<n.kennedy927@btinternet.com> writing in
news:J6adnbCqfMrBDRPbnZ2dnUVZ8s6gnZ2d@bt.com:

Top posting fixed... don't that again

>
> "Adrienne Boswell" <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9965782789753arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121...
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Neil Kennedy"
>> <n.kennedy927@btinternet.com> writing in
>> news:Zp-dnZCgs-NFFBPbnZ2dnUVZ8t2snZ2d@bt.com:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Now I have done this before many moons ago, but just cannot, no
>>> matter how much I tinker, get a form to redirect when sent.
>>>
>>> I have the following, set in a multi column / multi row table:-
>>>
>>><form method="post" action="mailto:email address (removed)>
>>
>> That in itself is fraught with danger - the biggest one being the
>> user has to have an email client to send the form data.
>>
>>>
>>> and at the bottom I have
>>><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">
>>><input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="redirectfile.html">
>>
>> Okay, so your action is mailto - mailto does not know anything about
>> redirection. Server side scripts know how to redirect.
>>
>>><input type="reset" value="Reset">
>>
>> Personally, I find those useless if not annoying.
>>
>>>
>>> Any idea which bit I may have missed to prevent the form from snding
>>> to my email (which it does) and then redirecting to another page
>>> (which it doesn't!).
>>
>> Yes, you need a server side form handling script, eg:
>> <form method="post" action="myformhandinglingscript.asp">
>>
>> If you are writing the script, you probably don't need to use the
>> redirect hidden input element. This that I've seen in third party
>> form processing scripts, like http://www.response-o-matic.com/ .
>>
>> HTH
>>
> Ta for the reply.
>
> I am hoping to avoid using scripting, purely and simply because I
> haven't got a clue what I am doing with it! I did set up a simple form
> on a (very) simple page years ago, which didn't use any scripting, and
> was hoping to head off down that path again. Is there any way round
> this?

You probably used a third party application, maybe even Response-o-Matic,
as noted above. Plain HTML has no way of doing what you need to do, nor
do email clients.

>
> With regards to the users having mail clients - the form is on a site
> that is going to be used by specific people, and I know they all have
> mail clients.

And if that person is at a library, Internet cafe, someone else's
computer? Doesn't want the email application to pop-up, or doesn't
understand what's going on? Beleive me, this is not a good thing to do.


> As for the Reset button - trust me, it'll be needed :)

One of the terrible things about reset buttons is they reset EVERYTHING.
Nothing more annoying than filling out a form, hitting the reset button
by accident, and having to fill the darned thing in all over again.


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