Mailform

**chechu** · 11-15-2006, 10:16 AM

Hey you all,
Can anyone tell me why this code doesn't work ?

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
function clearDefault(el) {
if (el.defaultValue==el.value) el.value = ""
}
</script>

</head>

<body background="bgpalet.gif" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

<table width="80%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align=right>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle">  

<table border="0" width=100% align=right>
<tr><td width="120" valign="middle">

</td><td valign="middle" align="right">

<FORM NAME="form1" METHOD="post" ACTION="contact.php">

<table width="100%" valign="top" align=center>
<tr><td>
<table width=100%>
<tr><td align=left>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="name" VALUE="your name" onFocus="clearDefault(this)" style="border:1px solid #666666; width:190px">
</td></tr>
<tr><td align=left>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="email" VALUE="your e-mail" onFocus="clearDefault(this)" style="border:1px solid #666666; width:190px">
</td></tr></table>
</td><td width=20>
&nbsp</td><td align=left valign=middle>
<INPUT TYPE="image" src="emailgo.jpg" NAME="submit" VALUE="go" style="border: 0px">
</td></tr></table>

<table width="100%" valign="top" align=center>
<tr><td align=right>
<TEXTAREA NAME="message" style="border:1px solid #666666; width:265px; height:120px">
</TEXTAREA>
</td></tr></table>


</FORM>

</td></tr></table>
</td></tr></table>

</body>
</html>

**mwinter** · 11-15-2006, 06:53 PM

You might want to start by suggesting what's wrong with it. The phrase "doesn't work" isn't very enlightening.

Out of curiosity, just how many nested tables do you want?! Don't use tables to effect layout. Use CSS.

Mike

**chechu** · 11-16-2006, 10:20 AM

I have no idea what is wrong with it, that's why I asked ... I guess it has someting to do with this:

Code:

<INPUT TYPE="image" src="emailgo.jpg" NAME="submit" VALUE="go" style="border: 0px">

About the tables: everything looks fine, so I stick to something I know. Unless you can explain me more about how the css would work ?

**mwinter** · 11-16-2006, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by chechu

I have no idea what is wrong with it ...

Clearly you do: you said that "this code doesn't work", so you must have some expectations of what it's supposed to do.

Mike

**chechu** · 11-17-2006, 10:35 AM

Dear Mike,

Okay, so as everyone knows, especially a "professor", a mailform is supposed to send the input data to a mailserver, or in this case, be processed by another file called "contact.php".
As this expected action hasn't been taken,something must be wrong ? But it could have various reasons:
- the .php file (correct ?)
- the html code without the <form> tags (correct ?)
- the <form> itself (correct ?)

Actually, someone that doesn't know what this code is supposed to do, shouldn't reply. Luckily, in the meantime, someone that did understand this code (a student by the way), checked it and confirmed me by personal mail that the code is entirely correct. So there is another reason, maybe the .php(to be confirmed).

Is it clear now, Mike ?

**codeexploiter** · 11-17-2006, 10:53 AM

What kind of error you are getting while executing the above mentioned page, you haven't mentioned nothing about that.

**BLiZZaRD** · 11-17-2006, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by chechu

Dear Mike,

Okay, so as everyone knows, especially a "professor", a mailform is supposed to send the input data to a mailserver, or in this case, be processed by another file called "contact.php".
As this expected action hasn't been taken,something must be wrong ? But it could have various reasons:
- the .php file (correct ?)
- the html code without the <form> tags (correct ?)
- the <form> itself (correct ?)

Actually, someone that doesn't know what this code is supposed to do, shouldn't reply. Luckily, in the meantime, someone that did understand this code (a student by the way), checked it and confirmed me by personal mail that the code is entirely correct. So there is another reason, maybe the .php(to be confirmed).

Is it clear now, Mike ?

Flattery will get you nowhere

What Mike was asking was not what is the code supposed to do, rather, what are your expectations for said code, and what is failing to meet those expectations?

If the code works once and then never again, or if you get a blank response, or other problem.

Posting a code snippet and saying "fix it" isn't going to get fixed. Those trying to help you will need to know what you have done to try and solve it yourself, as well as what you are expecting from the code and what it is or isn't doing.

oh, and BTW the student/teacher/professor thing, just means how much we talk, not how much we know

Except in Mike's case (and a handful of others...) Who have probably forgotten more than you and I will ever know.. back off the insults and just answer the questions needed to get the help you want.

**chechu** · 11-17-2006, 12:41 PM

No insults, opinions !
Nothing appears; it remains the same page.
- the .php file is correct
- the html code without the <form> tags (correct ?)
- the <form> itself (correct ?)
So something is wrong in the code ?

**BLiZZaRD** · 11-17-2006, 01:46 PM

That or your server is not set up to allow/support PHP... by saying "nothing appears" do you mean you have a blank page?

If so you might not have php support there.... or you may have to adapt a .htaccess file to include php on an html page...