Form submissions

[Flynnerbeanz]

Hi i have a new site developed for my band and i want to just a text field and
submit button for people to enter their email address and sign up for a
newsletter.. once submit is clicked where does the information go? i havnt
uploaded the site yet so does it have something to do with the host?
And is it possible to have the information sent to an email address on
pressing the submit button?

For my old site i was using the free newsletter form available at [url]www.ymlp.com[/url]
but i need my new form to be tucked neatly into the coloured margin and my html
knowledge is not that good..
Any help really appreciated..
thanks alot..
-flynn

[Murray *TMM*]

There are only two ways to process form data -

1. Use mailto:name@domain.com as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c) formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d) redirect the visitor
to some ending page

Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on their computer -
this eliminates public computers, or home users without email clients
installed (more and more it seems) - and on the installed email client
responding to
the mailto call. It is not possible to use this method *and* send the
visitor to a
thank you page as well.

Method 2 is the preferred method, since it eliminates the problems of method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).

Start with Method 2 by asking your host what they provide for processing
form data.

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"Flynnerbeanz" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi i have a new site developed for my band and i want to just a text field
> and
> submit button for people to enter their email address and sign up for a
> newsletter.. once submit is clicked where does the information go? i havnt
> uploaded the site yet so does it have something to do with the host?
> And is it possible to have the information sent to an email address on
> pressing the submit button?
>
> For my old site i was using the free newsletter form available at
> [url]www.ymlp.com[/url]
> but i need my new form to be tucked neatly into the coloured margin and my
> html
> knowledge is not that good..
> Any help really appreciated..
> thanks alot..
> -flynn
>