How To : HowTo Simple Forms in Mambo/Joomla

This is a little Mambo Email Script I wrote to help me create quick and dirty email forms.

I've found the current components to create Mambo Forms out there to be too much if you just want to quickly create a small mail form, so I wrote this to help me.

This is great if you want to have a little 'subscribe to newsletter', or 'send us your comments' form withing your content. You can then also set this up so that it sends a mail to your autoresponder, and have the person automatically subscribed.

About Mombo:

• Download the file: mailform.php.zip
• Unzip the file.
• Ftp the file into the includes foler on your server.
• Now you need to create the Form. What I like to do is to use something like Dreamweaver or any HTML editor (Except Frontpage - Frontpage chucks in a lot of extra code, which is not needed.)
• There are essentially 5 things you need replace in the code
  
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Courtesy : http://www.shadowrain.co.za