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Send me an email!!!

· Software · 11 posts · Jan 5, 2004 View original thread ↗

#1 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 08:11

took me a goddamn year fudging and teaching myself PHP to be able to do this:

http://jacktse.com/contact.php

i admit it was easier than i thought but it was 10x harder because i have no programming experience and i did this all via a book and fumbling. my biggest mistake was to try to install my own PHP/Apache/Mysql module because it just complicates the process exponentially. I gave up that shyt for now and just pay for the damn service and my production increased a million percent.

every email i send myself via that page i have a mini-orgasm because it took me so long to get this to work...so shoot APU a mail to celebrate my brilliance!

#2 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 08:15

Sent.

#3 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 08:24

Congrats. Did you know you could have just built your form and used the post method with the target being a simple cgi script that does the same thing? You can find generic cgi scripts all over the internet. Does your form data dump into tables in mysql?

Next, you should build a script that dumps the form data into mysql and then autoreplies a html/text e-mail message thanking the person for filling out your form.

#4 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 08:46

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I believe the clue here was that he was teaching himself php.

#5 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 08:49

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Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
took me a goddamn year fudging and teaching myself PHP to be able to do this:

http://jacktse.com/contact.php

i admit it was easier than i thought but it was 10x harder because i have no programming experience and i did this all via a book and fumbling. my biggest mistake was to try to install my own PHP/Apache/Mysql module because it just complicates the process exponentially. I gave up that shyt for now and just pay for the damn service and my production increased a million percent.

every email i send myself via that page i have a mini-orgasm because it took me so long to get this to work...so shoot APU a mail to celebrate my brilliance!

Can you post your code ? (is it all visible in the source ?)
Would be nice

#6 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 08:54

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Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
I believe the clue here was that he was teaching himself php.

This is a good book if you want to teach yourself php and mysql.

#7 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 09:16

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Originally posted by waxcrash:
Congrats. Did you know you could have just built your form and used the post method with the target being a simple cgi script that does the same thing? You can find generic cgi scripts all over the internet. Does your form data dump into tables in mysql?

Next, you should build a script that dumps the form data into mysql and then autoreplies a html/text e-mail message thanking the person for filling out your form.

my host actually has preset scripts but i wanted to learn PHP and do it manually. i really do not need the functionality, i would just as soon have visitors of my site contact me by clicking a email link .

and yeah, that sounds like a logical next step...my experience with MySql is rough though

#8 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 09:19

thanks folks...23 emails so far and counting!

it really feels good...

#9 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 12:04

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Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
thanks folks...23 emails so far and counting!

it really feels good...

SETN!

#10 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 12:17

that's quite a resum�!

#11 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 - 12:21

thanks

always working hard and never taking anything for granted (hence PHP learning) � and that hasn't been updated since july