Im creating a coming soon page for a website im developing, and im adding an option for the user to enter their email address so we can email them when the site is up.
How do I do this?
In order to make a form you will need to use an HTML form to allow the user to input their email address, and then a server side technology such as php or asp.net to grab the data and either send an email directly after the form is submitted, or store in a database or text file for later processing.
You can create a simple email form by following the steps here.
Heres a solution for asp.net.
And heres one for php.
Hope this helps.
Prefinery will help you manage the entire "beta" process. If you are just looking for a simple for tool, look at emailmeform.
If you have programming experience, you could create a database and store the email address.
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I want to create a feedback form where the users input data and when they press submit button, all the data entered is received by the admin at an email address which has been predefined in the code.
i don't want to use "mailto" as it opens another service. Is there any way to send data to email through the HTML form itself?
Forms send data to the URL specified in the action attribute.
mailto: URLs, which you have sensibly ruled out, are highly unreliable.
The only other kind of URL which can be usefully used is an http(s) URL where it is then processed by server side code.
If you want to send the emails to a different address then you need to change the server side code so it doesn't use a single address.
After a lot of research, I have decided to use https://formsubmit.co for this purpose. The details are present in their documentation.
It was exactly what I wanted, and completes my requirements. Thank you to everyone for their help.
I've been coding a website, it's nearly finished but I want users to be able to sign up for a newsletter. I've found that you can use the submit button but I don't know how to. How do you get the button to email you the information? Any help appreciated, thanks.
Typically the page contains a series of input elements ( think text boxes etc) which the user puts their data in to, the submit button POSTs a form to the server, the server can then access those form values and use them as required.
So in your scenario the server received an email address and name, for example, and you have an email library which can send that information to you. Alternatively of course you might put that information in a database so you can more easily handle subscriptions.
Look at this tutorial how get user email and save in database.
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1924985
Just want to ask if there is some way to add automatic email confirmation to vb.net website.
I want that user create new account in the website and the website sent the confirmation link to them. Only if the confirmation email is clicked the user will be able to fully register.
I know that there are ways with build in login page from vb. But I'm using my own login. Mainly becouse the database where user connect is MySql.
something like this: http://www.asp.net/web-forms/videos/authentication/implement-the-registration-verification-pattern
Any idea where to look? most of the google search links are with php or to Microsoft Sql.
Thanks in advance for any good link or solution.
Petr
basically, when an user registers the account, you generate a confirmation # (I will use GUID), then send the user an email with the confirmation link. the confirmation link is the url of the confirmation page with the confirmation # as parameter, i.e. www.mysite.com/confirmation.aspx?code={guid} . you save the confirmation code in the database with the user account table (it could be in the same table or a separated table). the user has to click the confirmation url to confirm. when confirm, you just need to check whether the code is the same as the Guid in the database.
Basically, the process is the same and it has no much relation with mySQL or SQL Server.
here is an example, although it is C#, the same process, just a little bit different syntax in code:
http://www.webreference.com/programming/asp_net/registration-confirmation-system/index.html
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asp.net confirmation mail send link that contains a unique identifier
Is there a correct way to go about including submission forms onto your site?
I am needing to create a form that simply allows a user to enter their email, and once they have entered it - show them a site that says thank you and we will be getting in touch with you.
Do I need specific software for this or simply just server space to store the data?
This is a common goal of a CGI script or scripting language. This requires some sort of scripting language on the hosting server, such as PHP, Perl, or ASP.NET.
Create the form in HTML, and then set the action to POST the data to the script.
<form method="POST" action="http://www.mysite/myScript.php">
This script file would contain the language necessary to process the incoming information (name, email, etc.), perform some sort of action (say, emailing the data to a third party), and then displaying a thank you page to the user.
I need to create a feature for a website that will allow a user to enter their email in order to receive a free promotion (which will be emailed immediately) and be added to an announcement list. I haven't done any web programming and am wondering where I should start?
Should I just create a database and everytime an email is entered, add the email to the database, then when I want to send out an announcement just write a script that will send an email to every address?
Thanks!
Sites like Campaigner do all of this for you. Why re-invent the wheel.
You could use emailing list software; on a Linux box, that would be Mailman, http://www.list.org/.
Use ASP.NET express. Configure send e-mail and sore whatever you need in the database.
http://www.orcsweb.com/blog/brad/sending-email-from-asp-net-4-c-sample-code/