Need help with email form

[Mark2000]

Hello there. I'm a designer and not really a coder, but I do my best. I'm trying to set up a mailer form that will collect email addresses for a newsletter and send them into my inbox in the body of a message. I've managed to create just that, but I need some other functionality that I haven't been able to accomplish.

 

The work is for a non-profit site on Net Neutrality. http://internetyouneed.com/. You can see the form under the navigation menu. I sends the addresses to me just fine, but it also takes you to a blank page after. The form in nested inside a css div with an image background. I'd love two things: One, something that secures the form a bit so that only email addresses get sent and not random junk. I'd also like it if, instead of trying to go to another page after being clicked, it would stay on the same page and delete the form and changed the div's background image (say, a thank you image). Is this possible?

 

Sorry, I'm so clueless, I was able to pull this off in Flash, but in HTML I'm baffled.

 

This is my PHP script so far

 

<?php
mail("news@badmonkeystudios.com", $_POST['subject'], $_POST['body'], "From: PHPMailer\nReply-To:". $_POST['from']."\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?>

 

And here is the form with the CSS

 

div#signup {
position:absolute;
background: url(images/signup.gif) no-repeat;
left: -144px;
top: 440px;
width: 227px;
height: 137px;
}

div.link03 {
position: absolute;
top: 75px;
left: 45px;
width: 126px;
height: 61px;
}

<div align="center" id="signup"><form action="mail.php" method="post"><br /><br /><input name="BODY" type="text" value="Enter Your Email" size="20" maxlength="60" />
  <div class="link03"><input type="image" name="submit" src="images/spacer.gif" width=125 height=59 border="0" /></div></form></div>

 

 

[Rifts]

you need to follow the correct format

 

this will help you

 

http://www.htmlite.com/php029.php