Information capture page Help

hi people

i have not been designing website for long and i want to redesign my site www.cleancleartidy.co.uk.

In the new site i want a information capture page where the customer would type in name address, tel, etc. when the press the submite button i want it to email me with the details they have provided.

I dont know where to start, what should i be using php, asp, or anthing else

also is there a template that some one has that i can pinch andjig about with.

any help would be great

(please remember i am not a web desginer, i am a dry cleaner)

cheers

Neel

p.s. sorry if this is the wrong place i did not know where to post

Hi Neel

You could use a number of different programming languages........

A lot of it comes down to the constraints of your host. What programming languages does your hosting package support?

I have a very simple information capture system that I have used for my clients in the past......what it does it emails a set address with the info, but also records the information in a database which is viewable via a web page.

If you want I can do you a quick example......which is in ASP, all the code is commented so it is easily customisable.

Cheers

Lee

hi lee this is the package i have

http://www.streamline.net/uu.php

I dont know if this helps, i know i can switch from windows server to linux, so that should not be a problem


if i did not want a database is there a simpler option

cheers

Neel

Well, obviously the way to go would be a server side script like ASP or PHP. Which one of those you use depends on your host's server. Windows and MSSQL or Linux/UNIX with MySQL. Microsft being Microsoft pretty much require you to use their ASP/MSSQL to achieve your goal.

If you are hosted on a non windows platform then MySQL/PHP would be the way to go.

Someone posted a sample mailer form on here some time ago... I can't remember who it was though....Damn this memory. It was in the PHP forum though so I'd look there first.