I send and receive a rather lonigish form several times a day which has to be filled out, copied into the body of an email (or worse yet sent as an attatchment) and returned to me . In order to make my life a bit easier I'd like to make this a web-based form that could be filled out and submitted directly from the site- no email required. It would be much like the form used when signing up for LQ.

I can set up Apache no problem but what exactly is it that I'm after in order to allow users to enter info? Any other advice, tips, ideas or other are very welcome. Thanks.

You will need a basic html form containing input elements for the information you want to collect, then a script that can handle the information, either by e-mailing it to you or putting it in a database. Either php or perl are idea for this.

you can also use java script, iv seen that it can email things to people (i 4get how but there are examples at the examples sites for java script

I've never seen it done with javascript and I don't see how it could be. You could set the form action to be a mailto but it would rely on the clients being set up correctly so I wouldn't advise it.

Thanks david_ross

A feedback form is what i'm after I do beleive. There are php and cgi scripts and it seems that cgi is a bit more involved than php. I've found 'free' (as in free to roam about the prison-yard) cgi scripts but I really could use a free one. Better yet a tutorial that reads "buld your own feedback form in X easy steps". I don't ask for much do I?

I work for a large company that is very Linux friendly. I have at my disposal a bitchin-bob Compaq deskpro sff, 400 Mhz, 128M, 6G that I intend to not only use to develop this simple web form but also eventually I hope to reface our entire website (multiple complex pages) and get myself noticed standing by the penguin all at the same time.

I do appreciate any tips.

SciYro eventually this will need to comnnect to a database so I think that's the way to go for now. Thanks for the input.

If you are wanting to use a database the I think you'll need to write one yourself. It isn't that difficult though.

Well I went and did it. Now instead of simlly adding a form to the site I get to refurb the whole thing!

OK well apparently they're all using M$ Frontpage to edit the site. Does Frontpage do something or provide some functionality that other HTML editors do not? Is there any reason I can't use Mozilla or Quanta or GINF or one of the many other fine HTML editors to get the same results and not have any difficulties integrating the pages I create into the existing site?

Thanks again

Pretty good resource for scripts:
http://www.cgi-resources.com/Program...rm_Processing/

front page is acutaly very hard to use and very inconvientietn if you alrdy know html (in my opiniop) frontpage puts thigs to the html like tags here and there that jsut waste bandwith and makes it horable to work with (i dono about you but i dont need to know that the page was made by frontpage), i sugest using anyoher html editor (my favorite is a reqular text editor )

edit:
nice win error, i wonder what genious made that error msg at redmon