Online Forms - Easy or Hard?

Tommy B · 10 Oct 2006 at 19:14

I'd really appreciate some help/advice on this!

Is it easy setting up a basic form like this one?
http://www.forgeclose.gpsurgery.net/Webdesk/netblast/pages/index.html?id=345342

How exactly are the results saved? Are they stored on the domain or emailed?

Tommy B · 10 Oct 2006 at 19:25

My knowledge of HTML programming is limited. The website in question is incredibly simple, and made during Front Page. Realistically, do you think I'll be able to set something up that emails the data on to an address?

Are there any templates/guides on the internet?

Many thanks,

Tommy B · 10 Oct 2006 at 19:48

CGI Scripts
MySQL
Frontpage extensions for your NT hosting package

That's the only information I could find on the host site control panel. My host is Easyspace.

Tommy B · 10 Oct 2006 at 20:37

I opened notepad, put this in:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

and saved it as PHP

I then typed www.gsgmc.co.uk/PHP but nothing happens.

So I tried .html .htm and .php - the PHP one brought up exactly what was written, the html/htm ones were blank. They are all still on there so you can try them

Many thanks,

Tom

Tommy B · 10 Oct 2006 at 22:41

http://www.gsgmc.co.uk/asp.asp

Doesn't work either :confused:

Tommy B · 14 Oct 2006 at 13:33

Anyone?

I'd be prepared to give someone £10 via paypal* if they can help me do this

*As long as I can get this form up and running!

Tommy B · 14 Oct 2006 at 14:59

I've searched their support for "Cgi-bin" and "ESMail.pl" and nothing came up. I've had no luck using their control panel either. Is the cgi-bin supposed to be a folder in the domain directory?

So if I place the relevant email address/info in that code above it would send the data to that provided email address. I take it I then have to apply that code to a form?

Cheers,

Tommy B · 15 Oct 2006 at 21:18

This explains some things!

Thanks for contacting Support Services.

Unfortunately the domain is currently on our Basic Web Hosting package which
does not support CGI, PHP or ASP. To be able to run scripts on the domain, you
need to upgrade your hosting package, you can do so by contacting our sales
team via this telephone number: 0870 755 5088.

Should you have any further problems, please feel free to contact us.

Regards,
Ake
Technical Support Engineer
Support Services

I'll get that sorted. Which script (CGI/PHP/ASP) is essential?

Tommy B · 16 Oct 2006 at 15:18

They want £60 extra a year. Although that option includes support for all the major scripts and many more unwanted features.

Is that too expensive or about right?

Cheers