Noob Idea in Need of Help

[Bumbobean23]

Basically I need to know how to make it were I can have a user come to my
webpage and anwser some questions on one page however they like, (no drop down
menu's, their own text), and then have them hit submit and it get sent to my
e-mail address. If anyone could help me with this since it's so easy, I would
greatly appreciate it. My s/n is Lamo Mayoisnasty and my e-mail adress is
[email]maxmelton@sbcglobal.net[/email] Thanks in advance!

[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.).

You would have to decide which of these methods is best for your needs,
but if it's Method 2, then start by asking your host what they provide for
form
processing.

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"Bumbobean23" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Basically I need to know how to make it were I can have a user come to
> my
> webpage and anwser some questions on one page however they like, (no drop
> down
> menu's, their own text), and then have them hit submit and it get sent to
> my
> e-mail address. If anyone could help me with this since it's so easy, I
> would
> greatly appreciate it. My s/n is Lamo Mayoisnasty and my e-mail adress is
> [email]maxmelton@sbcglobal.net[/email] Thanks in advance!
>

[Bumbobean23]

My site supports CGI Access/PHP, mySQL, and ftp. Could you please explain method two for me please?

[Murray *TMM*]

You would need to first ask your host what they provide for processing form
data. I need to know the answer to that question.

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"Bumbobean23" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> My site supports CGI Access/PHP, mySQL, and ftp. Could you please explain
> method two for me please?

[poserman]

Hey Guys

If you are using Windows and your server has ASP then instead of spending time
building all that code, do what I did buy Form Builder from Xigla.com. It
takes me about 2 minutes to build a form or contest page that will save info to
database(if you want), send an autorepsonder (if you want) send you complete
data information and then redirect the visitor to another page. I have bought
this program for every website I have.

[url]http://www.xigla.com/absolutefp/index.htm[/url]
Plus the tech support is incredible

Steve Owens

[Bumbobean23]

They basically said the support everything. lmao, that's the tech support I get (deserve) for using a free service. Maybe it's a good thing though? lol