Email form

As virtually every website of any consequence has this, I feel a bit foolish
not being able to figure out how to do it.

Anyway, I want to put a sign-up form on the main page of my site that will
collect the visitors name and email, then send them to another webpage
("thank you" page, download page, etc.) once the information has been
submitted. I've looked everywhere I can think of for a script or something
that will do this with no results.

The closest I have been able to come is a form generator that creates a form
on a seperate page (that can't be edited) that the visitor has to click a
link to get to.

In our last episode, MTC <freightshkr@earthlink.net> pronounced to
alt.www.webmaster:

> Anyway, I want to put a sign-up form on the main page of my site that will
> collect the visitors name and email, then send them to another webpage
> ("thank you" page, download page, etc.) once the information has been
> submitted.

Sounds pretty straight forward.

> I've looked everywhere I can think of for a script or something
> that will do this with no results.

Have you tried your host? Most usually have a basic form handler script
available.

Otherwise it will depend what server-side language(s) you have available
to you. But there are plenty around. E.g. for PHP:
http://hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_an...ors/index.html

--
Mark Parnell
http://clarkecomputers.com.au

Quoth trevor in alt.www.webmaster

> you have to at least try, even for one milisecond, to find your answer
> by SEARCHING for it.
>

Trevor is right, though I think it's more like a femtosecond.

http://www.boaddrink.com/

--
# www.mattlindi.com
# matt.lindi@your_clothes_mattlindi.com
# remove _your_clothes_ to email me

"Mark Parnell" <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au> wrote in message
news:4361c3cc$0$21701$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> In our last episode, MTC <freightshkr@earthlink.net> pronounced to
> alt.www.webmaster:
>
>> Anyway, I want to put a sign-up form on the main page of my site that
>> will
>> collect the visitors name and email, then send them to another webpage
>> ("thank you" page, download page, etc.) once the information has been
>> submitted.
>
> Sounds pretty straight forward.
>
>> I've looked everywhere I can think of for a script or something
>> that will do this with no results.
>
> Have you tried your host? Most usually have a basic form handler script
> available.
>
> Otherwise it will depend what server-side language(s) you have available
> to you. But there are plenty around. E.g. for PHP:
> http://hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_an...ors/index.html
>
> --
> Mark Parnell
> http://clarkecomputers.com.au

Thanks for the information!

My host does have a form generator. It's the one that requires that the
visitor click a link that takes them to the form on another page rather than
having it incorporated on my main page.

I checked out the link you offered. As it's obvious I know very little about
this, my next question would be: is having the visitor automatically sent to
another page something common to these scripts? The descriptions seem only
to make reference to how the collected information is handled.

"MTC" <freightshkr@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:GGm8f.1264$m81.398@newsread1.news.atl.earthli nk.net...
>
> "Mark Parnell" <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au> wrote in message
> news:4361c3cc$0$21701$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>> In our last episode, MTC <freightshkr@earthlink.net> pronounced to
>> alt.www.webmaster:
>>
>>> Anyway, I want to put a sign-up form on the main page of my site that
>>> will
>>> collect the visitors name and email, then send them to another webpage
>>> ("thank you" page, download page, etc.) once the information has been
>>> submitted.
>>
>> Sounds pretty straight forward.
>>
>>> I've looked everywhere I can think of for a script or something
>>> that will do this with no results.
>>
>> Have you tried your host? Most usually have a basic form handler script
>> available.
>>
>> Otherwise it will depend what server-side language(s) you have available
>> to you. But there are plenty around. E.g. for PHP:
>> http://hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_an...ors/index.html
>>
>> --
>> Mark Parnell
>> http://clarkecomputers.com.au
>
> Thanks for the information!
>
> My host does have a form generator. It's the one that requires that the
> visitor click a link that takes them to the form on another page rather
> than having it incorporated on my main page.

Are you sure? You should be able to use the form code on any page that you
wish.

--Tina

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of MTC
of alt.www.webmaster make plain:

> As virtually every website of any consequence has this, I feel a bit
> foolish not being able to figure out how to do it.
>
> Anyway, I want to put a sign-up form on the main page of my site that
> will collect the visitors name and email, then send them to another
> webpage ("thank you" page, download page, etc.) once the information
> has been submitted. I've looked everywhere I can think of for a script
> or something that will do this with no results.
>
> The closest I have been able to come is a form generator that creates
> a form on a seperate page (that can't be edited) that the visitor has
> to click a link to get to.

If I understand correctly, your main issue is with how to have the form
itself included in your page. There are plenty of form generators, but if
you want it included in your page, you're probably going to have to get
your hands a little dirty and cut-and-paste the form code. You're
probably better off just learning how to create a form in HTML -- it's
quite easy, really.

Once that's done you need something on the back end that receives the
form contents and does stuff with it. There are lots of scripts for this;
I of course recommend Phorm.

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/