Some html coding help please!!

[degeneration]

Ok, I've done most of what I'm asking here before, but I can't remember for the life of me what the coding was to do it.

I am wanting to put a form on a website that allows users to fill in a comment box, clikc submit and that comment gets sent to someone's email.

I don't want it to go through the person typing the comment's own email program, but directly over the internet.

I'm wanting to have a few fill in boxes:

1) A "Name" box.
2) An "Email" box.
3) A "Subject" box.

and also a drop down menu which will be a list of about 4 people's names, and depending on which one is chosen the email will be sent to a different email address.

Then the "Comment" box.

When the email is sent to whoever is chosen, I'd like the "Subject" box to become the subject line of the email.

Now I have done all that except the drop down list bit before, but I can't remember the coding.

If someone who is html savvy could knock up a a basic form for me, that would be great!

Oh, and if you could make it autoamtically forward to a certain address once the form has been sent, that would be great!

Thanks in advance for any help I get.

[Edited on 4-11-2004 by degeneration]

[wazzabi]

Okay, are you using any kind of Server-Side scripting e.g. Active Server Pages (ASP) or PHP for your site or it is just static HTML pages?

I ask because, as far as I know through the use of static HTML Forms and JavaScript, the best you are going to get out of it is: being able to open a New Message window (from the user's default e-mail program) and the form data automatically filling in all of the required fields in the New Message window (i.e. Address, Subject and Body Text). Server-Side code utilising ASP or PHP can easily (and automatically) send MIME e-mails without the use of the user's e-mail program.

For either of the cases above, there are loads of tutorials out there, so hopefully search using Google should yield some decent results for you.

[Mordib]

don't forget cgi, it may be old, it may be ugly but it works in many places where php and asp don't

[url=http://scripts.cgi101.com/#lk1]a basic cgi one[/url]

[url=http://www.scriptsearch.com/PHP/Scripts ... rocessing/]some php ones (i havent actually tried any of these, there are much simpler ones about)[/url]

[url=http://www.library.unr.edu/subjects/guides/mailplay.asp]an asp one that looks pretty simple and well written[/url]



[Edited on 5-11-2004 by Mordib]

[degeneration]

I've no idea whether any server side coding is being used. It is for a University club web-page...

Will have a play around and see what happens!