Getting web form to function?

Question

Can anyone walk me through getting a form to function on a website? (directing me to a page with lots of code doesn't help! very new to this!)

Answer 1

I can help you with the form, what is the function of the form that you want to code?

Answer 2

Creating the form on the website itself is fairly easy - it's just a bit of HTML code. However you have to have something running on the server that will take the information submitted by the user, and do something with it. Of course this depends on what you want to do, so it's not possible to give a general guide - do you want to collect addresses, send e-mails, put something in a database, or what?

For simple tasks you will usually find some code available that will do what you want, which is probably why people have pointed you at pages of code. You'll need to upload one of those to the proper directory on your web server. For more complex tasks you'll have to write it yourself, which will involve learning one of the scripting languages eg Perl, Python, PHP.