Can I stop Outlook pop-up on form submit?

Question

Hi All
I'm pretty new to Dreamweaver and am not a programmer or
coder by any stretch of the imagination. I have just created my
first website (using the design view for the most part) and have
added a page with a form on. When I preview the form, complete it
and click 'submit' it opens a new Outlook email message box. The
address and form details are filled in on the Outlook box and I
have to press 'send'. Is there a way I can set the form up so that
it sends in the background without opening this up, as it looks
amateurish and also means people can see my email address.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Many thanks
m.nutt1

Answer 1

You've said your hosting supports PHP?
If yes- then a php script would be easier to setup than the
nms-formmail
Perl script.
1)go to
http://boaddrink.com
-->phpformmail
download it.
http://www.boaddrink.com/projects/files/phpformmail/phpformmail_classic-1.07
.2.zip
extract the ZIP file.
2) open formmail.php in dreamweaver
Make the following changes (in code view, turn line numbers
on)
2a)
line 4,
define('CHECK_REFERER', true);
change to:
define('CHECK_REFERER', false);
reason: too many people use a firewall or Norton security to
restrict this.
2b)
Line 43
$referers = array('www.example.com', 'example.com');
change to:
$referers = array('www.marknuttall.me.uk',
'marknuttall.me.uk');
reason: this probably isn't needed since we just turned the
referrer
checking off. but change it anyway.
2c)
Line 46
$recipient_array = array();
change to:
$recipient_array = array('me' => '[email protected]');
reason: this sets the email address the form results will be
sent to.
3) now do a File-->Save As and save this file to within
this Local Site
folder.
4) in dw's File Panel, find formmail.php and upload it to the
remote site.
5) Now open your form html file in dreamweaver, ContactMe.htm
5a)click the mouse into the form area, and select the
<form> tag on the
lower left margin of the design window.
In the Property Inspectory, it should now show the properties
of the <form>
tag. In the Property Inspector, to the right of the ACTION
line, click the
folder icon and browse to and select the copy of the
formmail.php file
you've saved to within this site.
5b) click the mouse into the Email field of your form.
In the property inspector, change the "name" for this field
from Email to
email
reason: this will let the outgoing email have a "reply to"
that uses the
visitor's email address.
5c) now go to dw menu-->Insert-->Form
Objects-->Hidden Field
This inserts a hidden form field.
In the property inspector, change the NAME of this field to:
recipient
And the VALUE of this field to: me
the code should look like:
<input name="recipient" type="hidden" id="recipient"
value="me">
6) Save and upload ContactMe.htm
Try the form from the website.
Optional:
make a new page for a thank you for submitting message.
In the form, insert another hidden field.
Name: redirect
Value: the full absolute
http:// address to the new thank you page.