Problems with programming submit button and attachment upload

Question

i have a problem programming the upload "athachments" and i
would like to know how to program the submit button to go to an
email address. once the form is filled out i want the information
to go into my email inbox. what script or coding to i need to add
to the page to make these two things i mentioned above happen?the
code for the page and where does it go. that is the reason for my
questioning on how to program the two buttons and place the code in
the html where it belongs so the page will function right and go to
the email adress that i need it to go in.
http://worldofexotics.com/submit.htm

Answer 1

> There are only two ways to process form data -
You understand that, right? You are asking about how to
process form data -
and I am saying that there are only 2 ways to do that.
> 1. Use mailto:[email protected] as the action of the form
You understand that? Each form has an action -
<form action="..."
--------------------^^^
The contents of that action attribute tells the browser what
to do when the
form's submit button is successfully pressed.
In other words, you could have <form
action=mailto:[email protected]
That would be ONE way to do it - but there are many
disadvantages, as
explained further in my post. The other way is method 2 -
> Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the
form's data, b)
> process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a
database, c) formulate
> and
> send an email to one or more email recipients, and d)
redirect the visitor
> to some ending page
To do that, you'd have to *have* some server-side script -
there are quite a
few of them to choose from but the normal host usually also
supplies one as
part of your hosting package.
> You would have to decide which of these methods is best
for your needs,
> but if it's Method 2, then start by asking your host
what they provide for
> form processing.
Do you undertand that?
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"jayney" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi I have been sent this answer but i am still none the
wiser
>
> Can you work it out? this is the answer
> below.............................
>
> There are only two ways to process form data -
>
> 1. Use mailto:[email protected] as the action of the form
> 2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the
form's data, b)
> process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a
database, c) formulate
> and
> send an email to one or more email recipients, and d)
redirect the visitor
> to some ending page
>
> Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least
reliable. It depends both
> on your visitor having an email client already installed
on their
> computer -
> this eliminates public computers, or home users without
email clients
> installed (more and more it seems) - and on the
installed email client
> responding to
> the mailto call. It is not possible to use this method
*and* send the
> visitor to a
> thank you page as well.
>
> Method 2 is the preferred method, since it eliminates
the problems of
> method
> 1, but it means that you have to grapple with
server-scripting somehow
> (ASP,
> CF, PHP, perl, etc.).
>
> You would have to decide which of these methods is best
for your needs,
> but if it's Method 2, then start by asking your host
what they provide for
> form
> processing.
>