Terms & Conditions Page on Website

[AndyBorzi]

Hope someone can help!

I am designing a website for my brother-inlaw. He has asked for an enquiry form which is no problem but he only wants his clients to be able to send off the enquiry once they have 'agreed' to the terms and conditions.

I need the enquiry form to confirm that the client has clicked on the 'Agree' button in the t&C page and the 'Send' button be disabled until they have clicked on agree.

Preferably the t&c will be on a separate page.

Any help/pointers would be appreciated.

 

[AndyBorzi]

It is most common to have the terms and conditions within the form and just have them in a text area the scrolls so they only take up a small space.


You can then just have 2 simple radio buttons - agree to terms and conditions -yes/no.


You can then check on the server side for that being yes - if it is - then continue - if not then go back to the form and say - oi!

Very simple really.


If you really want the submit button to be unavailable until they tick 'yes' then this will require more work and involve JavaScript - you will still have to do the validation on the server side any way so I wouldn’t bother if you're not too confident.

Hi thanks for your reply.

I'm not a coder, can you give me an idea where to start with the radio button check (your first option) and I will go from there!

 

[AndyBorzi]

then on the server side something like (assuming php is your language of choice)

I know my webhost has php so will be using that.

This may sound noobish. Where do I put the php script/code? Does the HTML not call the code? Never used php before - never really had use for it!

Thanks for your help so far

 

[AndyBorzi]

Right, you want to make an HTML file with a form inside it, then use the radio buttons code i posted above. For instructions in using forms look @ http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp


Then you will set the forms action="form.php", then create a file called form.php and put the PHP code in there. And as you have never used PHP before, get yourself over to -> http://www.php.net/

I have already created a client enquiry form which submits the data via email using the /cgi-bin/mailer action. From your solution above you are using the form action="form.php" - can I have 2 form actions on the same page or will I have to create a separate page? I think it will look tidier on the same page but will go for 2 for ease!!

Thanks