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Posted by Mark Cabangon
Mark Cabangon
3,940 Points

Form Submission

Hi Everyone, I'm a beginner here and would like to know which track/course to take to send data from a form. I've finished the html and css courses and have implemented a form on a webpage done in html.

Now to send the data from the form. PHP, Ruby, Jquery? Which course should I take to learn this?

Thanks, Mark C

4 Answers

Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
45,783 Points

Mark,

I haven't taken the Ruby courses, but for PHP, you can learn a bit about submitting forms (specifically, sending an email from a form, if memory serves) from the Build a Simple PHP Application and Enhancing a Simple PHP Application classes.

Erik

Mark Cabangon
Mark Cabangon
3,940 Points

Thanks, Erik. I will check it out. My form is in the making still and I've estimated over 20 fields of information to be sent.

Oziel Perez
Oziel Perez
61,321 Points
Oziel Perez
Oziel Perez
61,321 Points

^ I'm currently on the course mentioned above. It's definitely easiest for me to use PHP. The coding for such email forms is rather simple once you analyze it well. Here's a very good step by step article on how create the form and program it with php, should you still need additional help:

http://tangledindesign.com/how-to-create-a-contact-form-using-html5-css3-and-php/

I will point out that if you wish to add file attachment on your form, you should probably stay away from that until you get a firm grasp on programming a basic email form, because trust me, there's a lot of reading to do regarding MIME types for email messages and the coding on those types of forms was a pain in the brain. Hope this helps you!

Mark Cabangon
Mark Cabangon
3,940 Points

Oziel, Awesome! Thanks a bunch for the link. The form I'm building is just a questionnaire. Nothing too fancy.

Mark C

Mark Cabangon
Mark Cabangon
3,940 Points
Mark Cabangon
Mark Cabangon
3,940 Points

Eric - That's exactly what I was looking for as for courses go!

Oziel - I went over the tutorial and will definitely use it to custom build my forms for future projects.

Thanks a bunch guys!! Exactly what I need and more.

Mark C

Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
45,783 Points
Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
45,783 Points

Perfect! Glad we could help, Mark!

Happy coding :)

Erik