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Evening all!!!

I am "relatively" new to web design (2 months experience and counting!) however....

I have managed to create a website using dreamweaver an got it onto my AOL Webspace, but... one of my pages contains a form and I havnt got a jar of glue where the information visitors write is being sent??? ive heard about CGI or something to enable it to be sent to ur e-mail addy???

Anyone shed any light on this???
Cheers

 

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You need a form handler and like you said you can use a CGI script to handle the forms processing.

1st thing is does your host support CGI if they do you can move onto the next step.

If not there are websites that provide an external form handling sevice that you can subscibe to but I would recomend this as a solution to not having CGI support on your own web space.

 

well the aol step by step guide might as well be wrote in spanish!!! lol
Thanx anyway ill keep trying.

 

Do you have FTP access t othe webspace? Is there a premade folder called CGI, if so you should have CGI support.

 

Its on my AOL webspace though my website, contacted AOL an they said all I have to do is add a link in my page to my email address, but I dont know whether they meant in the main page or the form page.

 

I think AOL are trying to fob you off and telling you to just use a simple email link rather than a form. For a form to process the input to email it still needs a form handler such as a CGI or PHP script.

 

As they said,

Yes you can use just a normal type of hyper link,
but that will only work if the end user has a mail client
set up on their p.c. So in other words if they only have access
to hotmail, yahoo! etc, they can't use the link.

When people are hitting your submit button, it is doing nothing!
It is just resetting the form. Firstly , as previously stated, check
your space's file directory. Is there a CGI-BIN? If so it supports CGI, also you will want to find out what CGI server-side scripting languages are installed and usable on the server.

If they have PERL(practical extraction and report language) then go to:

http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

from here you can download form mail, there will be a read me file etc which will tell you of the alterations you will need to make to the existing script.

Failing that, you can visit:

http://www.w3schools.com/

To learn any number of server side scripting languages. Good luck if you go down that road