Simple order form on website

[vespax]

Been searching for ways to create a simple form on a website, can anyone suggest someplace to get code, examples, etc?

I need something for customer to input some details and then press "submit" or whatever at the end. Not much of a code-junkie, so basic stuff is best.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to create such a form?

Using HTML w/css. Thanks.

 

[ziglet]

http://wufoo.com/ if your not much of a code junkie

 

[eye_suc]

http://www.w3schools.com is also rich with information

you going to store this information anywhere?

 

[vespax]

Planning on it, but mostly just need it to shoot me an email straight away.

 

[BobbyMac]

Planning on it, but mostly just need it to shoot me an email straight away.

There are two ways of achieving this:

The first is not really an acceptable way of doing it anymore. This method will create an email in the default Email Client from the form elements - as if you composed the email in your Email Application (it uses your local default email client):

<form method="post" action="mailto:[email protected]">
<textarea name="mailbody"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="send">
</form>

The other method, and this is the method used by almost all developers, is to send the form via the server calling a server side process, such as a CGI application or Mail Form Handler. Most if not all server scripting languages (such as PHP , ASP, Cold Fusion (Mailer 1.5), Ruby on Rails, etc etc) can handle this in some or other way

 

[texo]

I use NateMail www.mindpalette.com for simple forms. Has basic spam prevention, field validation etc and is free...

 

[Da Programa]

Hit NIIT college, buddy.

 

[AirWolf]

I use NateMail www.mindpalette.com for simple forms. Has basic spam prevention, field validation etc and is free...

This certainly has some excellent features --> thanks for the tip

 

[texo]

You're welcome -- if you're looking for a cool order form which has a quantity/total function, have a look here: http://www.mcfedries.com/JavaScript/OrderTotals.asp

It's *really* easy to customise, adn you can easily use natemail to email it to you.

 

[SYNERGY]

How about something like this @ http://gigazoneretail.co.za/contact.html
Just place the swf and config file in your server. I can edit the the flash file to suit your needs.
Uses the form mail script. Will email the contents to an email address of your choice
It will include a footer of: Synergy Designs thou

 

[texo]

NO!
Don't use flash for a contact form/order form.

 

[SYNERGY]

lol.Why? does the job for a simple form.

 

[rorz0r]

There's no reason to use it when it doesn't add any functionality and in some cases where the user doesn't have flash it decreases functionality and annoys/confuses the user.

Vespex what you're probably looking for is called formmail. There's about a million different variants of it, including of course the sites that host the stuff for you mentioned above.

 

[SYNERGY]

True, the flashform makes use of formmail. Most people have flash these days thanks to youtube and the like. It does add a feel of sophistication thou