advice on creating a form

[3billy3]

Hi
I have been asked to create a form on a web site i have designed - the form will be quite extensive and have about 16 fields for an online booking.

Is there a way to create an email form which, when submitted returns the complete form and not just the text within the fields?

Have tried a pdf form, this is ok but relies on the fact that users/customers will have acrobat installed - so i'm not too sure about using a pdf.

Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated

 

[lebisol]

Absolutly, what is at your disposal?
Any dynamic languages? ASP,PHP...

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[3billy3]

Im using Dreamweaver 8.0, I've got Adobe Acrobat Pro and Adobe Lifecycle Designer

Not any experience with ASP or PHP - sorry

I have been able to create the form using DW, but i would like the complete form to be mailed to me, and not just the results because they are not very legible in an email.

I thought a pdf would be the answer because the complete form can be submitted but this runs into problems when people don't have a pdf reader installed

 

[lebisol]

I meant does your host provide you with ablity to use a PHP or ASP ...or is it just HTML. Don't sweat it if you dont know the laguages, parts/script that handle email are pretty traight forward IF you can execute ASP or PHP.
If not then go in direction of:

http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

Post back!

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[3billy3]

I've used PHP before on a simple 'contact' form, so i guess they're geared up for PHP

 

[lebisol]

in that case here one of many tutorials:

http://www.php-scripts.com/php_diary/122899.php3

http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attachment.php

More or less you just point the forms target to that PHP mail processing page.
All the best!

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