Dreamweaver - I ned an order form script

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I ned an order form script

Fit2BTide

2005-07-30, 7:26 pm

I'm new here, and would like to find out where I can find a simple script to use for an order form on a website. Using a Submit button to send info to an email address. Any suggestions? Thank you.

J.S. $UltraSuite$

2005-07-30, 11:14 pm

Which server model are you using?

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Fit2BTide

2005-07-30, 11:16 pm

Sorry. I don't really know what you mean. Building a site in Dreamweaver 4 (haven't upgraded to MX).

Murray *TMM*

2005-07-31, 7:36 pm

There are two basic 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.).

For an order form, you'd probably want to use Method 2, although anything
other than PERL is going to be a struggle for DW4. Start by asking your
host what they provide for processing form information.

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> I'm new here, and would like to find out where I can find a simple script
> to use for an order form on a website. Using a Submit button to send info
> to an email address. Any suggestions? Thank you.