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Tim Kennedy
6,807 PointsHtml form to email
I need a simple form just so the user on a site can enter their name, email, and what services they are needing. I don't need to collect any data at the moment. I just want it to be sent to an email address so they can be followed up with. Is using the mailto: inside the action attribute bad or is it ok for what I want by simply sending brief info to an email?
Thank you in advance for your help...
2 Answers
Liam Clarke
19,938 PointsHi Tim
As a placeholder i would say its fine but as a long term thing, mailto is generally avoided especially for sensitive information as its not very secure as well as mailto being very limited in what it can do.
It is also not supported for all email clients and could produce incorrect results, or no results at all.
A long term plan would be to have proper server side validation and mailing (i recommend PHP, the mailing is fairly straight forward to set up) and client side validation with JavaScript.
Hope this helps
Liam
Nina Maxberry
10,630 PointsTim, yes it is okay to use as a placeholder. I created a button with a href to bring up a populated email for my "biz" to receive responses. <button><a href="mailto:emailbox.com"><strong>Email:<\strong> @gmail.com</button></a>
Tim Kennedy
6,807 PointsTim Kennedy
6,807 PointsThanks for the info! Yeah it will definitely be a placeholder short term just to get the layout and until I can hook up the php and validation. I appreciate it.