Just two questions

[TheAtheist]

I'm in the process of building a website, for my hobby, aviation photography. I've hit some snags though. I want to be able to have a comments and critisms page, where people can contact me via a form and click a button and their comment be emailed to me. I cant for the life of me remember how to code for this. I thought of using the mailto tag, but i want it to work, without using a mail client, almost so users dont see this bit, it looks like it just submits!

Secondly, as its a website for photography, i want users to be able to make it possible for users to upload photos. To save on space on my freewebs account, i want it setup like above, i capture the file location, and attach it to an email, and then email those photos to me. Anyone know how to do this. I can do the users only bit, i've got a login section.

Cheers

[carsey]

I think a PHP script will work fine for the mail comments and criticism page. How about a page such as a guestbook where others can see who wrote what etc??

I have a uploader script that you can use, I just need to write instructions for it then its getting posted in this programming section for all to use.

[TheAtheist]

Thanks carsey, but i dont want the comments posted, its a system whereby people can email me, but it looks easier to use than just simply going to hotmail for example and sending an email. I have a comments script already in use for people to write comments about the photos.

On that uploader script, is that the PHP one?, as i dont want it uploading directly, i want it emailed to me so i can crop it, etc to add it to the photo album on my site.

Cheers

[carsey]

Yes, its a PHP script, but I dont know whether there is anything Ive heard of that it will email it directly to you. I think you would be relying on people to do it through a email based program.

You could modify the script so that it uploads to a folder only viewable via password or have no 'public' permissions. This wont allow people to see the pictures inside, but you will be able to access it through FTP or your file manager.

[TheAtheist]

K, thanks carsey, i'll try that. Just hope it works. I'll get back to you on that. any further ideas on the email thingy for the comments? Cheers

[carsey]

Have a look at this site:

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/20650.html

[Damion]

I would not sugest using some one elses script you never know what they have there code doing they may be having the emails sent to them to sell for spam, fortunitly email scripts are easy. Also The Mailto method will send the email adress and the subject but not the information, and it is verry unsecure so heres how to make a php script for it.

Step 1: Make sure your host supports SMTP Wich is the protocal to send mail. Also make sure it supports PHP.

Step 2 write the PHP driver:

Name the file: sendmail.PHP <-- Make sure to spell that name exacly how it is here and use .PHP not .php because thats how it is named in the HTML)
Note: change the recipiand address (yourmail@yourdomain.com) to your email adress
change the header (Your URL) to the url of the page you want it to send them to when they send it.

<?
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
  $message = $_REQUEST['message'];

   mail( "yourmail@yourdomain.com", "Feedback Form Results",
      $message, "From: $email");
     header( "Location: Your URL ");
?>

Step 3: Write the HTML code

Save this as whatever you like but make sure to make it .HTML (coments.HTML)

<Form method="post" action="sendmail.PHP">
Email: <input name="email" type="text" /> <br />
Message:<br />
<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="40">
</textarea> <br />
<input type="submit" value="submit"><br />
</form>

[TheAtheist]

Thanks Damion, but carseys code looks like what i need and is all sorted for me. cheers Carsey

[TheAtheist]

Carsey, really appreciate your time on this one as i know i'm being a bit demanding, but i uploaded the upload(!) script to my website and when i click on it all i see is the code within it, not the page. Am i doing anything wrong, or will my freewebs not cope with it? My only idea on how to fix it, is to take the code from the .php file and put it into a .html file on my site, will this work?

BTW, the comment think implemented correctly, dunno if it works yet, need to have my account 7 days to find out. But nothing looks out of place with it

[carsey]

I dont know. Does freewebs allow PHP scripting, or any scripting??

It may pay, for future expansion, to get a free webhost and upload your site from there. It would probably mean starting again, unless you could copy the HTML source code from freewebs to the webhost.

[TheAtheist]

Accept my deepest apologies, freewebs doesnt accept php, and as this is a hobby TBH i am not prepared to pay or move my site. So i'll just have to ask people to email me!

[carsey]

You can get hosting for free all over the net, but if you aint prepared to move, theres not much I can do.

[gistek]

You could check out Bravenet.com

They have a lot of free web support services and very strict guidelines about what can and can't be done via their service.

You don't have to host with them to use the web support services. They do ask you to add a discrete link to your website, but don't require it.

[Redcore]

Bravenet is pretty cheesy though, I think. I guess it's fine if you're starting off - but most of their stuff screams amateur. They do have good basic articles on their site though.