Submitting Forms

[neikan]

Now I'm not a programmer of any sorts. I just design web pages and send the work along to the programmers. However, i am designing AND scripting a page for a non-profit organization. They would like information someone fills out in a form to be sent to an email. I've looked all over and i can't find what i'm looking for. if anyone can give me some tips, it would be much appreciated.

[tedster]

Welcome to the forums, neikan.

What this takes is some server-side programming. Pretty basic stuff, so don't worry that you're going to need to get into deeep waters.

It depends on what kind of CGI their webhost has made available. Many hosts make this kind of functionality very simple, giving you templates and straighforward instruction.

You're looking for a program like FormMail [scriptarchive.com] in Perl, or perhaps ASPMail if your host offers that with their ASP support.

If you run into a snag with Perl, the folks in our CGI Scripting forum [webmasterworld.com] would be glad to help, and for ASP issues, you can post in the ASP and .Net forum [webmasterworld.com] - but in most cases your web host should be able to give you this basic functionality pretty easily.

[neikan]

Thanks for you help. Perl worked out great with what we needed.