Creating a Contact forum Page

[Solidwham]

I need help!
So where do I even begin.
I am trying to set up a contact page where somebody fills out a forum and then it would be automatically emailed to me. But I can't seem to figure it out. I am also wondering if this should be built in dreamweaver or fireworks or flash?

Anyway if anyone would like to walk me through it or direct me where to go to read some information/steps that would be awesome!
Thanks in advance

[jakomo]

Try to build it with PHP :) search in google php form example, there are many free :)

[Solidwham]

wow after looking at those examples it seems rather simple.....but explain to me. once its set up were does that information go? Is this going to involve setting up a MSQL.... Can you have it automatically email you the information?

[Solidwham]

oops I mean mysql database

[jjpmarketing]

I believe you might be able to do this with HTML, but PHP may be a better option since you can save the script for use with other pages/sites. With PHP it would use your hosting accounts outgoing mailserver to send the message to you. The best place to look if you can't find anything on google would probably be hotscripts.com, and there will probably be decent instructions on how to make it work. This won't require use of a mysql database unless you plan on storing that information on your webserver for later retrieval. Using a form to submit info via email won't require long term storage so you wouldn't need mysql. I think there is another site as well... phpscripts.com or something like that. I can't remember for certain. Google "free php scripts" and you should find sites loaded with these types of scripts since this is a very common script. The only issue you may have to deal with is formatting... sometimes formatting the output from the form to show up how you like in the email is not always that easy.

[Solidwham]

Thanks, its starting to make more since....now its just time to read about it and then try it....Also thanks for the website direction. Pretty good stuff.

[jjpmarketing]

Thanks, its starting to make more since....now its just time to read about it and then try it....Also thanks for the website direction. Pretty good stuff.

Your welcome. Glad I could help.