Website forms

[Admiral Huddy]

I'm a complete noob when it comes to website building so I need some help with forms.

I've created a test page here.. (ignore the heading)

http://www.admiralcomputers.co.uk/test.shtml

Ok so basically I need to know how to consolidate the data and place into a database or and email, either is fine, when pressing the submit button.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Davey_Pitch]

The way it generally works is that the form interacts with a CGI or PHP script which is hosted on your site. The script will format the data in the form and email it to an address that you specify. There are tons of scripts on the web which will work easily (and freely), so all you'll need to know is whether your host supports PHP or CGI scripting.

[Admiral Huddy]

I know it supprts PHP scripting as I've some on their already

[Desmo]

The first form I came up with used this to make it all... http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/

It was pretty good and gives you a step by step interface to create the form.
I now use something totally different but it won't help you as it uses at backend package to capture the data.

[Admiral Huddy]

What sort of backend package? For retail?

[Desmo]

Nope. It's a customer relationship manager (CRM) called SugarCRM.

[Admiral Huddy]

Ok here's the generated form...

http://www.admiralcomputers.co.uk/form.html



No i've ported the code to on of my templates

http://www.admiralcomputers.co.uk/form2.shtml

something not quite right with the info message not folding.. Appears to looking for a class called InfoBox which I can't find... Must be there somewhere because the generated one works..

[Joe 90]

looks like you just need to add a class to your CSS called 'infobox' and style it however you want, then you'll be sorted well after also restyling the email boxes anyway

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obviously the easiest way is to take the same css as the generated page -

a.info:hover .infobox {
	font-weight: normal; 
	display:block; 
	position:absolute; 
	top:20px;;
	left:25px;
	width:205px; 
	height:70px; 
	border: 1px solid #ccc; 
	background:#f4f4f4 url(question.gif) no-repeat bottom right; 
	color:#000; 
	text-align:left; 
	font-size:0.7em; 
	padding-left:10px; 
	padding-top:10px;
}

[Admiral Huddy]

blimmy.. I'm glad i'm on your side..

Ok I'll take that on but how come the generated one works as they are both in the same domain directory..

[Joe 90]

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

Ok I'll take that on but how come the generated one works as they are both in the same domain directory..

nothing to do with the domain dir or owt like that...

just the CSS stylesheet on the generated code had a class to tell that description how to display, but then your test form was missing that block of code, so it didn't know what to display as...

btw, i learnt just about all i know about php/css from www.sampsonvideos.com

the guys awesome
american - but he's sound and does like 20/30min video tutorials
watch one on CSS and you'll soon pick it up