First of all let me say thanks to all of you who run and maintain these forums as well as all who contribute to these forums. It is, I can already tell, a great service to those like me who don't know where to start!
I am truly a newbie to all of this web coding/programming. I used to do MS-Foxpro programming years ago and have fallen away when it went the way of "object-oriented" programming. Now I wish I'd kept up. Anyway, I'm trying to do something that I think is probably "elementary" yet I need some guidance. Right now I have to put up a simple HTML screen that captures basic information about a visitor in a SINGLE page site. This information needs to be saved, lets say to a text file residing on the web server, (right now it doesn't have to be a database although later it could be a database ?Foxpro? maybe) and then sends the visitor who filled out the form, a predetermined email message as an immediate followup to their filling out the screen form.
Right now I have some HTML code that was given to me. I've attached the sample code below at the bottom of this message. The best I can do is, using "common sense", -- logically modify sections, cutting and pasting logical modifications into this code. I'm not yet an HTML maven. I have this page displaying fine when I preview (of course with the proper embedded images present) but I don't know how to set it up so that when a visitor fills out the screen and clicks the button - all the followup steps described above in the previous paragraph are performed. (saves their info to file and sends them an preset email message)
I'm sorry if I'm stating this to simplistically, but this is the best I know how to describe what I need.
Again, thanks in advance for any help.
--Gary
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Make Money NOW!</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0><!-- ImageReady Slices (formimage-------------2----------------1-4-2k3.psd) --><!-- End ImageReady Slices -->
<TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width="100%">
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD><IMG height=75 src="formimage--2_01.gif"
width=19></TD>
<TD width="100%"
background="formimage--2_02.gif">
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</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top width="100%" height="100%">
<TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top width="100%" bgColor=#ae9356 height="100%">
<TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"
border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width="50%">
<IMG height=324
src="formimage--2_03.gif"
width=401></TD>
<TD width="100%"
background="e1.gif"> </TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top height="100%"></TD>
<TD width="50%"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD>
<TD vAlign=top>
<TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD
background="formimage--2_04.gif">
<IMG
height=132 src="formimage--2_04.gif"
width=332></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD width="100%" height="100%">
<TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="332"
border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top width="312" bgColor=#ae9356>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD colSpan=3>
<IMG height=6
src="formimage--2_05.gif"
width=312></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD
background="formimage--2_09.gif"
colSpan=3>
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<TR>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle
background="formimage--2_09.gif"
colSpan=3>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"
border=0>
<FORM action=~submit_target~ method=post>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD align=right width="50%"><B><FONT
face=Verdana size=1>First Name</FONT></B></TD>
<TD width="50%">
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2px"><INPUT size=14
name=First_Name></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD align=right width="50%"><B><FONT
face=Verdana size=1>Last Name</FONT></B></TD>
<TD width="50%">
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2px"><INPUT size=14
name=Last_Name></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD align=right width="50%"><B><FONT
face=Verdana size=1>Email
Address</FONT></B></TD>
<TD width="50%">
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2px"><INPUT size=14
name=email></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD align=right width="50%"><B><FONT
face=Verdana size=1>Phone</FONT></B></TD>
<TD width="50%">
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2px"><INPUT size=14
name=Evening_Phone></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD align=right width="50%"><B><FONT
face=Verdana size=1>Desired
Income</FONT></B></TD>
<TD width="50%">
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 2px"><SELECT size=1
name=Desired_Income> <OPTION selected>Please
Select</OPTION> <OPTION>$500/Monthly</OPTION>
<OPTION>$1000/Monthly</OPTION>
<OPTION>$2000/Monthly</OPTION>
<OPTION>$5,000/Monthly</OPTION>
<OPTION>$15,000/Monthly</OPTION></SELECT></P></TD></TR><INPUT
type=hidden value=~id~ name=uid> <INPUT
type=hidden value=~camp_id~ name=camp> <INPUT
type=hidden value=~success_target~
name=success_url> </TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD colSpan=3>
<IMG height=3
src="formimage--2_09.gif"
width=312></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD colSpan=3>
<IMG height=6
src="formimage--2_10.gif"
width=312></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD>
<IMG height=23
src="formimage--2_11.gif"
width=57></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT type=image height=23 width=202
src="formimage--2_12.gif"
border=0 name=Submit></TD>
<TD>
<IMG height=23
src="formimage--2_13.gif"
width=53></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top bgColor=#ae9356 colSpan=3
height="100%">
<IMG height=10
src="formimage--2_14.gif"
width=312></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></FORM>
<TD
bgColor=#ae9356 width="20"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD width="100%">
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD><IMG height=16 src="t_16.gif" width=38></TD>
<TD width="100%" background="t_17.gif">
<IMG
height=16 src="t_17.gif" width=497></TD>
<TD><IMG height=16 src="t_18.gif"
width=245></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>