Adding contact form to a static website [closed]

Answer 1

Have a look at Form Spree, you can simply add a <form> with an action posting to their service, and get an email each time someone fills the form.

Very efficient!

(Not suited for contact forms with a lot of submissions. Consider Wufoo or the shiny new FormKeep)

Answer 2

If you're using Octopress or Jekyll for your static site. You might want to check out jekyll-contact: https://github.com/anchetaWern/jekyll-contact It uses pooleapp for sending the contents of your contact form to an email you specify.

Answer 3

Another alternative is to use free hosted forms from a service such as Tectite. You push your forms to their service then they email you the results.

Answer 4

There's a similar question here.

The solution was to point to a PHP file on a different server, one that isn't static. knittl shows how to point the action attribute to a different server.

<form method="post" action="http://example.com/process.php">
  <input type="text" name="my_textfield" />
  <input type="submit" value="send!" />
</form>

One other alternative would be to use Wufoo forms, which you can embed in a static page.

Answer 5

You can better use UserVoice contact form. Uservoice will do two things

1. It will create new ticket inside Uservoice system.

2. It also send a mail to you.

It will be end to end solutions for customer support. However if you send mail through some services, you have to communicate to your customer for support. Uservoice will designed and built for customer support only.

I know, you have a questions that you want to use your own custom form, not the one provided as uservoice widget. Yes, you can do it by

https://gist.github.com/cypriss/2032215

Answer 6

The page can be static HTML, but your action can point to a PHP or similar file.

<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">
<textarea name="comments"></textarea>
<input type="submit" class="button" value="Send Feedback">
</form>