Sometime around 25/2/08 (at 20:38 -0500) Matthew said:
The “Action” section in the “Form Setup” option under “Pages” is
throwing me. What needs to be entered here - html or some sort of
address?
The form action is the address of the script. You point the form at
the script, and when someone clicks the Sumbit button the contents of
the form is sent there. The script takes the data and does whatever
it is written to do with it; store it in a database, send it to you
by email, whistle Dixie, or all three at once. (Forms can be clever
like that…)
The script is (normally) a standalone file somewhere on your (or any
other) server. The form page you design just needs to know where the
script is.
would a ‘mailto’ option be better?
Simpler in one sense - but it won’t do this with a form. All a mailto
can do is tell the visitor’s email client to make a new outgoing
email message, addressed to you. It doesn’t provide structured,
controlled content insertion in the way forms do, and it doesn’t even
guarantee that the message will be sent!