Hi Lawfour
Ok the first thing is I think your ready to move on to hand-writing your php instead of using a tool to do it for you. The people in this form are great and we can answer almost any question you have. -And while writing by hand might take a while at first you will eventually generate many methods and algorithms that you will re-use over and over so things will eventually become less frustrating.
Ok, here is how you will need to do form submission for now on. The mail() method simply wont work.
Make a form like this
[HTML]<form name="thisForm" method="POST" action="process.php">
<p><input type="text" name="my_textbox" size="20"></p>
<p><select size="1" name="my_dropdown">
<option value="one">one</option>
<option value="two">two</option>
<option value="three">three</option>
</select></p>
<p><input type="buttom" value="Submit" name="btm_submit" onclick="validate()"></p>
</form>[/HTML]
Notice that the submit button is not a type="submit". We are going to call a javascript function called validate first before we potentially send off bad info to the php page. the function looks like this
function validate() {
fm = document.thisForm
//use validation here to make sure the user entered
//the information correctly
fm.submit()
}
Notice that the form has an action="process.php". That means that there will be $_POST variables available to you in that php file. When the user hits the submit button and the javascript sends the form, the browser will re-direct to process.php
Here's what that page might look like
[PHP]<?php
echo $_POST['my_textbox'];
echo $_POST['my_dropdown'];
//The name of these post variables is the same as the name
//of the elements that were in the form
?>[/PHP]
Now, Let me know if your have grasped all that and if you respond (in otherwords if you have looked back on this thread which some people dont even do). Then perhaps Troy and I can help you with the database and dynamic form part
On a side note. If you would have used method="GET" in the form, you would use $_GET[] in the php
-B
