# Having an incredibly hard and embarassing time making form

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-an-incredibly-hard-and-embarassing-time-making-form/240416>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [October 2, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-an-incredibly-hard-and-embarassing-time-making-form/240416 "2007-10-02T19:57:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![badlydrawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@badlydrawn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/badlydrawn)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-an-incredibly-hard-and-embarassing-time-making-form/240416/1 "2007-10-02T19:57:38Z")

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Hi guys, I’ve been web developing for quite a while now but my current job never had me make web forms before using CGI. I worked with it a while back but have completely forgotten everything! I was wondering if you guys could help me out…

All I want to do is know how to create a simple HTML form, and have it submitted to an email address in a formatted way. I know this is not possible with mailto: and I must use CGI script. Problem is is that I cannot find any good tutorials online or free CGI scripts that I can use. I was considering writing my own CGI scripts, but I do not know how. I’m guessing PHP is another way to make forms? Anyways, any help would be greatly appretiated!

- Badly