I need to develope forms, but before i do i have a couple questions. How do you get the form to check itself and how do i get it to redirect to a certain page if i am using a CGI program to mail it to an e-mail address?
You can either use Javascript to perform client-side form verification or do it server-side in the CGI script. To force a redirect, you can have your CGI script send a Location header to the client.
You can find plenty of examples of form-verifying Javascript code with a google search. For examples of manipulating response headers you’ll have to look at the documentation for the CGI interface of whatever language you’re using on the server.
Here’s the script you are looking for:
BFormMail
http://www.infosheet.com/iScripts.html
It’s simple to configure and does what you need.
The above script is a based upon:
FormMail
http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html
If you’re looking for something hosted and ready made, your options are:
and a hosted version of the above FormMail script:
If you use the pre-written FormMail as mentioned above, the page to which you can make the browser redirect is simply a variable in the form.