Trying to make a contact form in Dreamweaver CS5.

<form ACTION="/cgi-bin/form-submit/ipusers/jruser/forms/em" method="post">
Name:<br />
<input type="text" name="name" value="your name" /><br />
E-mail:<br />
<input type="text" name="mail" value="your email" /><br />
Phone:<br />
<input type="text" name="Phone" value="your Phone" />
<br /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit">

</form>

The most important line is the reference to the form-submit utility:

<form ACTION="/cgi-bin/form-submit/ipusers/jruser/forms/em" method="post">
Here, the argument /ipusers/jrusers/forms gives the path from the top of the WWW tree to J. Random's forms directory, and the final element em identifies the form to be used. Given this, form-submit will take its directions from a file named em.submit in that forms directory.

em.submit -- the definitions file for form-submit

The em.submit file tells form-submit how to proceed with processing the form submitted from em.html .


# submit file for email form

Tag-Required: name

Tag-Default comments ""

Email-file em.template
Email-to : email address

Return-document: em-done.html
This file says that the submitter's name must be provided, and that the comments field, if omitted, will be set to blanks -- this will make sure that there is a translation for the comments field when it is included in the email message. The file also specifies that the results of the form should be emailed to "email address" using the file em.template as a model. That file (the template file) contains form-submit style substitutions so that the actual submitted information can be sent in the desired format. Finally, the em.submit file says that when the form is successfully processed, a file em-done.html should be returned to the submitter as a confirmation page.