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creating a submittion form using html, anyone know how to do this?

LRB	2 Feb, 2007 - 06:53 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 1 Feb, 2007 Posts: 13 My Contributions	Story behind my problem: I've made an art contest site on myspace. I wanted to make a submittion form to where people can just type and submit their art and poetry entries on the page and it go directly to my email or someplace for safe keeping until the contest. The Problem: I have NO CLUE where to begin as far as the proper code to use. Question: Can someone help me make the form or at least point me into the right direction for me to doit myself?
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LRB	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 2 Feb, 2007 - 07:37 AM Post #2
New D.I.C Head Joined: 1 Feb, 2007 Posts: 13 My Contributions	any and all help WILL be greatly appreciated
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LRB	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 2 Feb, 2007 - 07:52 AM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 1 Feb, 2007 Posts: 13 My Contributions	QUOTE(LRB @ 2 Feb, 2007 - 08:37 AM) any and all help WILL be greatly appreciated Hmm well I figured out the html to the form boxes now I don't know what all this talk about CGI is
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William_Wilson	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 2 Feb, 2007 - 08:36 AM Post #4
lost in compilation Joined: 23 Dec, 2005 Posts: 4,101 Thanked: 25 times Dream Kudos: 3275 Expert In: Java, C, Javascript My Contributions	you just need a form with a GET or POST method. the action will be connected to a script, likely something .cgi there are many sites which offer free ones, probably the site you are with has one.
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Amadeus	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 2 Feb, 2007 - 08:36 AM Post #5
g++ -o drink whiskey.cpp Joined: 12 Jul, 2002 Posts: 12,351 Thanked: 51 times Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	If you wish to have the entires be sent to your email box, you'll likely need to use a scripting language or a CGI script to send the actual email. I don;t frequent myspace - do you have any access to any scripting languages there?
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LRB	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 2 Feb, 2007 - 06:13 PM Post #6
New D.I.C Head Joined: 1 Feb, 2007 Posts: 13 My Contributions	QUOTE(Amadeus @ 2 Feb, 2007 - 09:36 AM) If you wish to have the entires be sent to your email box, you'll likely need to use a scripting language or a CGI script to send the actual email. I don;t frequent myspace - do you have any access to any scripting languages there? I don't know. I really don't know much abut computers barely any of the terms.
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Amadeus	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 2 Feb, 2007 - 08:10 PM Post #7
g++ -o drink whiskey.cpp Joined: 12 Jul, 2002 Posts: 12,351 Thanked: 51 times Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	Hmmm....well the site admins will be able to tell you if there is any scripting or CGI scripts allowed. HTML is a markup language - it doesn't actually do anything in and of itself. If you were running your own site, no problem, but this will be dependent on what myspace allows in this situation.
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haveacigar	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 3 Feb, 2007 - 01:42 PM Post #8
New D.I.C Head Joined: 3 Feb, 2007 Posts: 15 My Contributions	QUOTE(Amadeus @ 2 Feb, 2007 - 09:10 PM) Hmmm....well the site admins will be able to tell you if there is any scripting or CGI scripts allowed. HTML is a markup language - it doesn't actually do anything in and of itself. If you were running your own site, no problem, but this will be dependent on what myspace allows in this situation. There shouldnt really be a problem. Just find a free host that supports php, and link the myspace form to it. So what you can do [mod edit] We don't allow posting of code unless effort has been made by the asker. This post has been edited by hotsnoj: 11 Feb, 2007 - 12:02 PM
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LRB	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 11 Feb, 2007 - 10:31 AM Post #9
New D.I.C Head Joined: 1 Feb, 2007 Posts: 13 My Contributions	QUOTE(haveacigar @ 3 Feb, 2007 - 02:42 PM) QUOTE(Amadeus @ 2 Feb, 2007 - 09:10 PM) Hmmm....well the site admins will be able to tell you if there is any scripting or CGI scripts allowed. HTML is a markup language - it doesn't actually do anything in and of itself. If you were running your own site, no problem, but this will be dependent on what myspace allows in this situation. There shouldnt really be a problem. Just find a free host that supports php, and link the myspace form to it. So what you can do how about photobucket I don't know if it supposrts php or not
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Arbitrator	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 11 Feb, 2007 - 11:26 AM Post #10
D.I.C Regular Joined: 26 Jan, 2005 Posts: 492 Thanked: 2 times My Contributions	QUOTE(LRB @ 11 Feb, 2007 - 12:31 PM) how about photobucket I don't know if it supposrts php or not Photobucket is an image hosting service. You need a Web site hosting service for PHP.
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jonesa01	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 18 Feb, 2007 - 03:02 AM Post #11
New D.I.C Head Joined: 18 Feb, 2007 Posts: 39 Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	Here are a few ways that you can do it. If you want to send your results to e-mail make sure that the start of the form is like this but change the name and e-mail address <form name="name" action="mailto:someone@dreamincode.net"> If you have access to php I would save it to a file. As long as you code it so it adds to the file not overwrites it. I am not sure how to do this but, I will add a reply with the code soon.
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omoimasuyo	RE: Creating A Submittion Form Using Html 20 Feb, 2007 - 08:17 AM Post #12
D.I.C Head Joined: 19 Oct, 2006 Posts: 60 Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	From reading and making a mail form, I think it would be a good idea to just use php on a site that allows it.
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