I need to create a custom Form in hostgator and should be able to send the Form input to my email address.
I am new to html and form in general.
I have used the code on the following link to create the base html file: https://support.hostgator.com/articles/custom-form-mail The form I've created is working well it just that I didn't receive any email.
Do i need to create a php file for this? I'm also not sure what to put on value="http://www.example.com/redirect-path"> part.
I'm using Hostgator website builder. I'm not familiar with form in general
============== The code i followed:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>FormMail Demo</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function hgsubmit()
{
if (/\S+/.test(document.hgmailer.name.value) == false) alert ("Please provide your name.");
else if (/^\S+@[a-z0-9_.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6}$/i.test(document.hgmailer.email.value) == false) alert ("A valid email address is required.");
else if (/\S+/.test(document.hgmailer.comment.value) == false) alert ("Your email content is needed.");
else {
document.hgmailer.submit();
alert (' Thank you! \n Your email is sent.');
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="http://www.example.com/cgi-sys/formmail.pl" method="post" name="hgmailer">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="myemail@mydomain.com">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="FormMail E-Mail">
Whatever you want to say here<br><br>
Visitor Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="30" value=""><br>
Visitor E-Mail: <input type="text" name="email" size="30" value=""><br>
E-Mail Content: <textarea name="comment" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea><br><br>
<input type="button" value="E-Mail Me!" onclick="hgsubmit();">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.example.com/redirect-path">
</form>
</body>
</html>
