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SSL-secured Credit card form How to

How do I make a credit card form that is SSL-secured

         

jtakano

11:33 am on May 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I wanted to make my own credit card payment form in my website. My host already support SSL so I'm going to use their shared SSL Certificate. I just wanted to make a form where my clients will put their credit card details and shipping information and automatically send the informations to my email address.

Now, the problem is I do not know how to make a form that is SSL-secured and how to make the informations send to my email address. Can you please show me some easy to use free form creator or can you link me to a simple tutorial website?

rocknbil

4:14 pm on May 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

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There's a little more to it than that.

If the form is requested from the secure server, the data is securely encrypted when submitted.

However, by "receving the info via email" you are UN-DOING the security of the system as email is NOT secure. So especially if this form contains credit card or other sensitive information, Do. Not. Do. This.

The correct way would be to store the submitted info in some secure location in an encrypted format and receive an email notice that simply says "new info submitted." You would then retrieve the information in a secure manner through a login or othe method, not via email.

Managing the data submitted by the form is usually done via some server-side programming, such as perl or php. The form is submitted to a program which does all the work and sends you the notice.

If you've no idea how to do any of this, keep searching, you will find you have a lot of reading to do. :-) Pick the language of your choice (most people like php these days) and start learning.

killua

11:12 am on May 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

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OK. Do you know any free online websites or any free downloadable softwares that can create HTML forms for you. I tried to search for HTML tutorials but it will take me days to study them. Which is why I wanted to know if there are free sites or software that can build HTML forms for you?