html to e-mail

[stu96art]

I apologize for asking such a broad question, but I need to write a CGI to take information from my webpage and have it emailed to me. How can I do this? What form does the information get sent in? Any information would help, thanks.

[rozallin]

By this I am assuming you are talking about using a form to allow users to input data, and that data is sent by email to you when the users hit submit. If so, I would suggest using the CGI.pm module.

Ovid has a great offsite (and free) Web Programming course that will help you to learn how to implement this, provided you know a little bit of HTML and a little bit of Perl. And if you try a Super Search for CGI.pm and forms, you should come up with quite a lot of nodes that deal with your query.

Hope it helps, and good luck!

--
Rozallin J. Thompson
The Webmistress who doesn't hesitate to use strict;

[poj]

Take a look at CGI::Application::Mailform which is described as "a reusable and customizable mailform for the web. It is intentionally simple, and provides very few facilities. What it does do is provide an easy-to-use, secure system for taking the contents of a HTML form submission and sending it, via email, to a specified recipient."
poj

[sutch]

I've done this using Mail::Mailer and CGI:

- create a new Mail::Mailer object
- call the object's open method, passing a hash with From, To, and Subject
- print the CGI values to the object

See the Mail::Mailer docs for more information.

[thatguy]

It depends on the format that you encode it with. If you just print the raw data to sendmail it will be a plain text email.

However, why not take a break from the wheel rewriting and look at the nms formail? It does what you have described and I'm sure you can tweak the look of it to suit.
-phill