JavaScript OR JSP

[Liza]

Dear all,

can you please tell me how i can get information from a form filled in
by a user at my website to my e-mail inbox? are there alternative ways
of retrieving information enter by users at a website...if so which is
the easiest or the best? will i NEED a server side script to submit
the form to and if so how?

will i need server side script (such as JSP) together with client side
script(such as (javascript)? or can i get the above task done with
just one of these?

thanks a lot guys.
Lisa

[kaeli]

Re: JavaScript OR JSP

In article <a4ebd3b1.04062 50646.1163658b@ posting.google. com>, lizalee10
@yahoo.co.uk enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> Dear all,
>
> can you please tell me how i can get information from a form filled in
> by a user at my website to my e-mail inbox? are there alternative ways
> of retrieving information enter by users at a website...if so which is
> the easiest or the best? will i NEED a server side script to submit
> the form to and if so how?[/color]

Your best bet is one, yes. The only way to do it with javascript is
mailto, and that's not a good way to do it. It has way more cons than
pros.
[color=blue]
>
> will i need server side script (such as JSP) together with client side
> script(such as (javascript)? or can i get the above task done with
> just one of these?
>[/color]

JSP alone would suffice if you had it. Javascript as an added plus would
validate the form on the client, but JSP can certainly validate on the
server and you should always validate on the server, anyway, in case the
user has javascript disabled.
You'd need SMTP mail or JavaMail on your host and a mail server to send
it through.
Check with your host, though, as many already have formmail (a perl CGI
script) or other form mailers for free.

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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: JavaScript OR JSP

kaeli wrote:[color=blue]
> In article <a4ebd3b1.04062 50646.1163658b@ posting.google. com>, lizalee10
> @yahoo.co.uk enlightened us with...[/color]

Please do not write attribution novels.
[color=blue][color=green]
>> can you please tell me how i can get information from a form filled in
>> by a user at my website to my e-mail inbox? are there alternative ways
>> of retrieving information enter by users at a website...if so which is
>> the easiest or the best? will i NEED a server side script to submit
>> the form to and if so how?[/color]
>
> Your best bet is one, yes. The only way to do it with javascript is
> mailto, and that's not a good way to do it. It has way more cons than
> pros.[/color]

There is still server-side J(ava)Script.


PointedEars

[Dr John Stockton]

Re: JavaScript OR JSP

JRS: In article <40DC6177.60504 03@PointedEars. de>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@nu rfuerspam.de> posted at Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:31:35 :[color=blue]
>kaeli wrote:[color=green]
>> In article <a4ebd3b1.04062 50646.1163658b@ posting.google. com>, lizalee10
>> @yahoo.co.uk enlightened us with...[/color]
>
>Please do not write attribution novels.[/color]

No Usenet RFC indicates that the above is unreasonable. Nor does the
newsgroup FAQ. A recent Usenet draft RFC supports reasonably detailed
attributions.

Ignore Lahn on etiquette; he deserves to end up chopping wood at Doorn.

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[kaeli]

Re: JavaScript OR JSP

In article <40DC6177.60504 03@PointedEars. de>, PointedEars@nur fuerspam.de
enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> kaeli wrote:[color=green]
> > In article <a4ebd3b1.04062 50646.1163658b@ posting.google. com>, lizalee10
> > @yahoo.co.uk enlightened us with...[/color]
>
> Please do not write attribution novels.
>[/color]

Putz off.

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[kaeli]

Re: JavaScript OR JSP

In article <JCVeM7HjHK3AFw Dm@merlyn.demon .co.uk>,
spam@merlyn.dem on.co.uk enlightened us with...[color=blue]
>
> Ignore Lahn on etiquette; he deserves to end up chopping wood at Doorn.
>[/color]

He's already in my killfile. ;)

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Re: JavaScript OR JSP

JRS: In article <MPG.1b4b9ce332 93abf989f3f@nnt p.lucent.com>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, kaeli <tiny_one@NOSPA M.comcast.net> posted at
Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:36:41 :[color=blue]
>In article <JCVeM7HjHK3AFw Dm@merlyn.demon .co.uk>,
>spam@merlyn.de mon.co.uk enlightened us with...[color=green]
>>
>> Ignore Lahn on etiquette; he deserves to end up chopping wood at Doorn.[/color]
>
>He's already in my killfile. ;)[/color]

That's a pity.

Being obviously wrong only wastes space; but a plausible dictator is
always a bad thing, even if (which is not the case here) invariably
correct.

Such assertions as his should not pass unchallenged.

Hegel, Santayana, and Shaw, as in quotings.htm, were right; on odd
occasions, I have doubts about Hoyle.

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