I would like to set up a form on my Shopify website. I want the content of the form to be sent to me via email. So I would like to use the get method and set the forms action attribute to a URL that will send me an email with the submissions.
The question is, how do I send an email through URL's? Or do I need to use API for this? Is it possible at all? Or is it gonna be possible for me to submit the form to a mystore.myshopify.com page?
I have already tried searching some similar questions, but nothing was satisfying.
Sending an email is something that is done on a back-end of the server. With Shopify it's not possible because you don't have access to the back-end.
But the default Shopify contact form does send you an email when it's submitted, so you can use it. You can modify its fields, copy it to other pages, etc.
If you want more customization options, or more control you'll have to use a service. Shopify recommends Wufoo or Jotform. But you can use whatever you like.
One additional thing. If you have a server somewhere where you can access the back-end, you can send your form data there and email it yourself with PHP or any other language that can run there and send emails.
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I know it's possible to have a polling survey in Mailchimp, but can we have a text field where people can submit responses as well, inline within the email, without being sent to a landing page?
If you were to code the email yourself, you would probably be able to include an input field. The thing is though, it won't work. Input fields are part of forms, and forms need a location to submit the entered data to. Email clients don't support that kind of data transfers, ergo: nope, not possible!
Final thought: if using a landing page isn't an option, you can always create an email link that simply allows your recipients to reply to the email with their answer to your question. Might not be the most elegant solution, but in some situations it does the trick just fine.
So the form i previously created didn't work because my site is hosted in Amazon S3. I just want a simple form that sends an email when the user clicks submit.
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form is at the bottom
Any ideas on how to make this form work and send an email?
You'll need a back-end service to help you send the email.
You can use a Lambda function to send the email, then setup an API gateway to funnel your requests to the Lambda function.
Then in your static website, use Javascript to issue Ajax calls to the API gateway when the form is submitting.
A static site on S3 can't process form submissions so you can't do this with just S3. You could either create your own server process to handle form submissions, possibly on EC2 or Lambda, or you could use a service like Wufoo forms.
The other respondents are correct in that you'll need a back-end service. One popular option is formspree. Another alternative would be posting a form's contents to something like Slack or HipChat using webhooks, such as explained in this blog post.
I know I could simply make a html form on a website and email a link to it, or send the html as an email which posts to the website and try to deal with the errors/warnings for different peoples mail clients.
But, due to a specific request from a client, I am wondering if there is a way I could send an email, a questionnaire, with the same checkbox elements which then user receiving the questionnaire simply checks and sends back as a reply to the sender?
This is not very well supported across email clients, and will even throw some scary looking error messages to your recipients. You will be much better served linking to a landing page.
More info: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/forms/
Email only supports html and css. I think Google has something like that, but it is not widely supported.
Generally, neither html of css can submit a form or (if the form even displays) acknowledge which form fields are populated/checked. Pretty much all you have is hyperlinks.
Passing parameters in your hyperlink would allow you to pre populate a form, but that is about as tricky as you can get.
Something like this:
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You could then use PHP for example to populate the landing page form with the values. I know it doesn't help much for a questionnaire, but that's all we have to work with in email.
I'm looking for any tools, or services, that allow me to send email to a website. For example, if I have a form on a webpage, I can fill in the information and submit it. What I'd like to do is put the information in an email and send that to the webpage, for the same processing. Currently, what I can do, is using something like Twilio... where I can SMS the information and load it into a webpage... it's just fairly expensive.
Thanks in advance.
source here bro. http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp you can send it to your email using this script..
Can anyone show me a script or example of a form results being emailed with submit? Does jquery have any advantage with this?
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jQuery might be the magical unicorn of scripting frameworks but even that isn't able to actually send an email.
Typically you would serialise your form values and pass these back to some server-side method to process; be that a PHP script, .Net method or whatever.
If you HAVE to have an email pop up when the user clicks a link or button, you might get some of the way by employing a (rather unattractive) approach like this.
But the bottom line really is, "Please don't".
Typically a website that sends an email as a result of submission will do this emailing on the server side (where a suitably configured SMTP client exists). You can use jQuery to validate the form on the client side (although you will still need to do server side validation) and to submit the form, which will POST it to program / script on the server side that will email whatever text it should email.
It might have some advantages like client side validation and "nice effects" or no refresh after send.
You must no that jquery isnt the one "sending the email" you might want to do this with php or any other methods just google email form or similar. :)
Here is a good example:
http://trevordavis.net/blog/ajax-forms-with-jquery/
Good luck!
the only advantage jQuery has with submitting the results is that you don't have to post to the page that actually does the submissions. What's nice about that is that the page doesn't refresh, and the user doesn't leave what he's currently doing. You can do a jQuery.ajax() POST to the email script, on the server, to process the email submission, and the user will still be on the page.