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January 29, 2017
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E-mail HTTP script

  • January 29, 2017
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Beste,

voor mijn website www.Antwerpse-Stralingswerken.be wil ik voor mijn klanten een e-mail formulier maken.

Nu ben ik wat haastig geweest en heb ik een domain bij Telenet genomen en zijn ondersteunen dus geen php, is er een html code voor het sturen van een e-mail formulier zonder server zijde. Nu opent namelijk altijd outlook.

Of is er ergens een gratis php server die kan gebruikt worden of kan aangeschreven worden?

Het formulier zou het een contact formulier moeten worden voor een aanvraag tot offerte:

zandstralen van meubels, trappen enz...

wie kan mij helpen

alvast bedankt.

groetjes David

Ps: het antwerpse zandstraal team

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Correct answer Rob Hecker2

With SMTP you could send email using an email server that is not on your web server. You could even use GMAIL for this, but the code would have to be PHP (or Ruby or ASP.net)  and located on your web server.

The only alternative could be some kind of service that your webpage links to, but I am unfamiliar with such options.

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 29, 2017

Wufoo is a 3rd party form service.

Wufoo Online Form Builder

It's popular with people who have no knowledge of or support for server-side scripts.    But if you plan to do more serious web development, you need a server that supports scripts.  Good web hosting is very affordable these days.  There's no reason to settle for less.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Rob Hecker2
Rob Hecker2Correct answer
Legend
January 29, 2017

With SMTP you could send email using an email server that is not on your web server. You could even use GMAIL for this, but the code would have to be PHP (or Ruby or ASP.net)  and located on your web server.

The only alternative could be some kind of service that your webpage links to, but I am unfamiliar with such options.

pziecina
Legend
January 29, 2017

I know this is a very old method, but would a cgi script work?

Rob Hecker2
Legend
January 29, 2017

would a cgi script work?

I don't know.

Maybe the solution is a free or very cheap web host that provides some PHP support. Those are not on my radar.