Creating And Submitting Forms

[steanet]

once i create a form how do i get the data submitted back to me? i basically have no idea, is this something i can figure out or is it complicated? can anyone point me in the right direction?

[surefire]

Once you create a form, you need to have the information sent to a page that can interpret the variables and do something with the data. This is done through the first line of the form tag like so

 

<form name="form1" method="post" action="/dir/somepage.php">

 

That .php ending could very well be .asp, .cgi, .cfm or even .htm if you know what you're doing. But the page it references must have code that can perform some sort of action and email you the results.

 

There are three alternatives:

• Post the information to a third party site and have them send you the email
  
• Get some code that's already written and put it up on your site
  
• Write (or pay someone to write) custom code for specifically what you want done
  

It just depends on your level of knowledge and how unique your results have to be. I would be willing to bet that you just want to get emailed the results and so option two could be accomplished with a very small amount of effort.

 

(Option one is really for those who are just WAY over their heads and want a quick solution... and that's not necessarily bad.)

 

So I would go to hotscripts.com and look up a piece of code that will do this to your liking, or you could use a piece of code I wrote that others at TCH have really enjoyed http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/id65.htm

 

Hope that answer helps.