[ironknee]

hello

i need to add a simple "sign up for our newsletter" /email thing to a client's website

see this example http://java-scripts.net/ left collumn bottom

i've search a lot of javascript sites and i don't know what this is called

anyways if you know of a simple way to do this, it would be great

thanks

[Chuckit]

Javascript wouldn't be right for this — it works mainly on the client side. PHP would be the right choice. If you search on Google, you'll find several tutorials and sample code for mail-sending scripts. A basic template would be something like this:

(on the HTML page)
[codex]
<form action="sendmail.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="address" value="Enter your e-mail"></input>
<input type="submit"></input>
</form>
[/codex]

(in sendmail.php)
[codex]<?php
$address = stripslashes($_REQUEST['address']);
mail('youremail@example.com',"Mailing list signup","$address would like to sign up for the mailing list");
echo "Thank you for signing up!";
?>[/codex]

You'll want a little more than that (e.g., an actual page that redirects them back to your site instead of just "Thank you for signing up!"), but that's the basic form of it.

[ironknee]

thanks chuckit!