First time hosting with HMS, but have some experience elsewhere. What do you recommend using for Fill-in Forms. I'm not super experienced with these, but can get by if I have a good example. To start, I want a basic "Contact Us" form that collects visitor info and sends it in an email to a member of the office staff. Later, I'll get more advanced and also post it to a database.

Any help??

Dan (CT)

What is script language? CF, ASP/ASP.NET/PHP??

WHat kind of account do you have wiht them a WIndows account or a Linux account?

That is going to determine what language you will be using for your forms coding

I've got a linux account.
Isn't there a basic script I can pull from somewhere that shows me how to collect first name, last name, email address, phone number and a comment and have all that sent to me automatically via an email when they press SEND? I'm just not real experienced with this sort of thing, but know other hosters have these to where I've been able to pull it off in minutes.

ahh... what you're looking for is formmail.pl... check their KB on it at http://hostmysite.com

I recommend using Novice Forms. I was able to use it and configure it as a newbie to the whole php thing. There of course many others out there that you may find better suited for your needs.

There's all different kinds of ways to do it...PERL, PHP, etc etc etc...

Oh yea, definately. It was almost harder to pick which one to use than actually setting up one to use. I used the PHP script because I had trouble initally with getting a particular cgi script to work..

CGI/PERL can be wierd especially for beginners...using PHP I think you'll have an easier time.