Form building in Dreamweaver
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- move
Anyone got any experience in doing this? I am attempting to program a site for a client and I was wondering if it is even worth the trouble for a novice to make an attempt to construct a page. HELP!!!!!!
- creez0
what kind of form?
- dropdown0
The form is the easy part. The script that handles it is the harder part. Depending on what the form actually does that is.
- move0
The form is only going to collect name, email addy and a brief summary of the cause for contact
- move0
hmm? How so?
- moth0
- moth0
Your next question will probably be about databases or mail scripts.
- move0
Shit, data bases? please feel free to expound.......
- Stugoo0
first off you need to tell us what it does.
then you need to figure out what you want it do to...
then you need to figure out what language you want ot use.
find out what what language your server can handle then find a tutorial that will help you build the form.
or
pay someone to do it.
- moth0
I'll do it for 300 quid.
- fiesta0
Use Textmate or Coda instead
Dreamweaver doesn't do you any favours, just gets in the way of things
- moth0
There's nothing wrong with dreamweaver at this guys level.
- move0
Dreamweaver doesn't have a AJAX (javascript) form, where I can just put code into the HTML?
- moth0
this will be harder than i thought.
- moth0
Try this;
http://paste.milk-it.net/1067- It'll work - but it sure as shit ain't safe. You need to validate ALL user supplied datamoth
- 404NotFound0
Ummmmmmmmmmmm....
Why do you have clients if you can't even make a simple form?
- pylon0
So *move* you'll need to do the front-end coding of the form in HTML (you can use the DW wysiwyg stuff if you must).
Then the next step is finding a script that will process the information that the user has added to the form. Most of the simple scripts are wide open to spam attacks and so on. Here's one that works well once properly set-up, for novices: http://www.tectite.com/
Once you've got the front-end sending info to the back-end you can test the thing and make sure that your error pages and everything are working properly. None of this is *that* hard, but it is more complicated than you likely think; there's the form (front-end), the form-processor (back-end, php etc), error pages, success/thank-you page.
If you're serious about learning HTML there's no better way than to just get in there and do it, but if this is for client-work and you're not really that interested save yourself the aneurism and sub this out to someone with experience.
- move0
Awesome pylon. I will give this a shot and update you on whats what!!!