Web Page Form Handling

May 9, 2005 8:57 AM

I want to be able to provide a form with a "submit" button on a web page.

I host my own web servers with two websites. I want to be able to add custom form (the content of which could change regularly) and have that data sent to me, email or whatever. For some reason, this seems like a big mysterious concept that only people with PERL or JAVA or whatever coding language du jour are capable of. Is there a simpler way to achieve this for someone who does not know coding? I am running these servers on Win2k Server with the built in IIS.

Either a 3rd party program that will do it for me or a website/tutorial on how to cook something up would be great!

posted by SparkyPine to computers & internet (3 comments total)

My company uses Whiz-Mail. It's very customizable and you could do a lot more than with most form programs or services. It's pretty inexpensive and reliable too. You could also output the forms into whatever spreadsheet program you use if you want to do stats.
posted by Blue Buddha at 9:06 AM on May 9, 2005

I had to do one of these last week myself. I ran across this before I decided to write it myself: Website Contact Form Generator- it will generate the code for you.

There are lots of commercial utilities that will create a form for you too. Try googling for "online form generator", and you should get some hits that are for programs that don't require you to write any code.
posted by gus at 10:07 AM on May 9, 2005

If you are using IIS, you can easily create an ASP page using CDONTS like in this tutorial. Or this one. It's very easy and I do it all the time. There is no reason to buy a 3rd party application.
posted by aaronh at 8:39 PM on May 9, 2005