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Simple Feedback or Order Form
Formmail is one way you can add a web based form to your site that your visitors can fill out to send you information. Formmail's job is to take the information entered by your visitors and send it to you in an email message. In addition, it is also capable of generating its own confirmation page that the user will see after they submit their information. If you are using a web authoring program to create your site, it's likely it already has support for creating forms. However, your form will need to know how to post to the script and contain at least one hidden field that tells the script where to email the information to. If you are not using a web authoring program, or your web authoring program does not support forms, you can learn more about how to create forms using HTML using a tutorial like the one found here. (If the NCSA tutorial looks like too much reading, jump down towards the end of their tutorial and take a look at their example forms.)
Using the formmail.cgi Script
To use the formmail.cgi script with a form you have created, you must modify your |
