Once again about forms?

Question

Ok, asked a few times already and readlized that i was not going to get anywhere with PHP, so i now have access to Dreamweaver.

What i want: a simple contact form. I would like it simple and with not copyright stuff in the form and not links to other sites.
I also saw somewhere about a shopping cart in php, whats that all about.

Serious answers only

Answer 1

php is a webserver programming language.

There are open-source shopping cart programs written in php. They are free, but are difficult to learn, and really not worth the effort if you don't have some familiarity with php, MySQL, etc.. See http://www.zen-cart.com/ and http://www.oscommerce.com/.

The easiest way to sell something online is to use PayPal. You can very easily get a "Buy Now" button and be selling on line in about an hour.

HTML will NOT send email. A mailto link will open Outlook Express (or other email program), but HTML forms have to be sent somewhere. Typically they are sent to the webserver that process the information. Someone has to program the webserver to send that data to you via email.

Your webhosting account already has ASP and/or ASP.net if it is a Windows hosting account and probably php if it is a linux hosting account.

Answer 2

Try using CuteSiteBuilder. It automatically creates such forms for you. Shopping cart is a totally different stuff. It is for online shopping. U browse a shopping site and go on adding items to a 'cart'. Cart is nothing but a virtual thing which keeps account of which items you have selected to buy. In the end u can buy all the items in the cart or remove those which you don't want and buy the rest. Go to amazon.com for a real time experience :)

Answer 3

o.k. didnt catch ur last questions...but what i got to know is that u r learning PHP.. and u gonna use Dreamweaver for ur design… am i right?.. ok now.. u can design ur page very simple by Dreamweaver...just insert the form and insert the text box and what ever else u need to be in ur form.... even u can copy the source of any other websites into ur dreamweaver to get their deign....

After designing the page...now, the main part is the programming... to save the data that u r getting from the user u need a database... mySql would be the easiest... then u gotta code to get the data from the form and save into ur tables in the database...

The shopping cart code can be written by PHP,JSP or ASP or so many other web applications... when u finished coding copy and paste ur codes here so we can debug...

good luckz...