Use of submit button

Hello,
could somebody help?
I'm trying to put a text button plus a submit button in order
for the website viewer to enter some text and click on the submit
button to transfer the content to an emailaddress.
The problem: how to make the submit button work?
Thanks for your help,
Jean-Claude

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 2a 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.).
Method 2b would be to use some third-party form processing,
like
http://www.bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/.
You would have to decide which of these methods is best for
your needs,
but if it's Method 2a, then start by asking your host what
they provide for
form
processing. If it's 2b, then read their FAQ/instructions
carefully.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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"behrjc" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:g8evj1$r64$[email protected]..
> Hello,
> could somebody help?
> I'm trying to put a text button plus a submit button in
order for the
> website
> viewer to enter some text and click on the submit button
to transfer the
> content to an emailaddress.
> The problem: how to make the submit button work?
> Thanks for your help,
> Jean-Claude
>

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