George Fox University | Offices and Services | Institutional Technology | Creating a Form to E-mail Webpage

In order to gather information from your webpage viewers, you need to create a form that will capture that information and process it. This tuitorial will focus on creating a form that your web viewer can use to input their data, and configuring the form so that the data will be packaged in an e-mail and delivered to the e-mail address(es) of your choice.

We are going to use a Perl script called FormMail. FormMail is a generic WWW form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified through the form, meaning you don't need any programming knowledge or multiple scripts for multiple forms.

For detailed information about how the script works, visit the readme file on the References page.

Once you work your way through the following sections, you'll have working knowledge on what it takes to send e-mail from a web form.

1. Overview
2. The Basics
3. Making It Work
4. Text Paragraphs
5. Radio Buttons
6. Checkboxes
7. Select Lists
8. Thanking the User (sending a response webpage)
9. Putting it all together
10. Best Practices (Thinking about Usability)
11. References
12. A Printable version of this document