handeling forms

[romeo.malancu]

i've done a html page with forms....i'm desperate...nobody want to tell me how
to handle this forms...where all the information from this forms goes...and how
to do so that everytime that someone fill out this form i can receive this in
an e-mail...?
help me pls....

[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.).

To get started with Method 2, ask your host what they provide for form
processing.

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"romeo.malancu" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> i've done a html page with forms....i'm desperate...nobody want to tell me
> how
> to handle this forms...where all the information from this forms
> goes...and how
> to do so that everytime that someone fill out this form i can receive
> this in
> an e-mail...?
> help me pls....
>