ASP And PHP Form Page

hasnatme

Hi Guys,

I have just registered here to join all of you and hope will continue as long as possible.

Now I want to know how can I make a form page like the following link in both asp and php platform.
[http://www.hnass.com/rate_request.asp]

Thanks in advance.
Hasnat Jamil.
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dinangkur

Regarding your problem, you've to use databases with your php or asp code. I recommend you to use mySQL. Now php has native facility to connect mySQL. ASP also connect mySQL through ODBC. And if you search on the net through www.google.com then you will find lot free script to do your job.

http://www.phpscript.com/

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quantum

Dear Hasnat,

Welcome to the community.

Now the form page you are looking at does not need either php or asp. You are thinking too complex. The form tag is an HTML attribute. Not asp or php attribute. ASP or PHP comes when you are doing something with the form data. In this case, what they are doing is probabaly having it sent to some email address. Javascript is being used here to validate the form data. This is the form code they used on their site:

Code:

<table border="0" cellpadding="4" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="65%" id="AutoNumber2">
<tr>
<form name="form" method="post" onSubmit="return v(this)">

<td width="100%" colspan="3" height="30" align="center">
Rate Request</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Shipment type</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="radio" size="20" value="Shipment AIR Type" name="txt_shipment_type">
AIR
<input type="radio" size="20" value="Shipment SEA Type" name="txt_shipment_type">
SEA  

<input type="radio" size="20" value="Shipment HAZARDOUS Type" name="txt_shipment_type">
Hazardous
<input type="radio" size="20" value="Shipment REEFER Type" name="txt_shipment_type">
Reefer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Shipment term</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="radio" size="20" value="Shipment PP Term" name="txt_shipment_term">
PP 
<input type="radio" size="20" value="Shipment CC Term" name="txt_shipment_term">
CC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Pickup location</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_pick_location" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Origin
Airport/Seaport</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_origin_airport" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Destination
Airport/Seaport</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_destination_airport" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Place of final
Delivery</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_place_final_delivery" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">No of Packages</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_no_of_packages" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Total Gross weight</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_total_gross" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Dimensions of each
package/lot</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_dimensions_each_package" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Date of shipment</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_date_shipment" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Instruction, if any</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_instruction" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Contact Person</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_person" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%">Contact Email</td>
<td width="3%">:</td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="text" name="txt_email" size="30" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%"> </td>
<td width="3%"> </td>
<td width="55%">
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0">      
<input type="submit" value="Clear Form" name="reset" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; border-style: ridge; border-width: 1; padding: 0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="43%"> </td>
<td width="3%"> </td>
<td width="55%"> </td>
</tr>
</form>

It's done with just four kinds of html form tag. <form>, <input>, <submit>, <reset>

Now tell us what you really want to do with thr form data that are being submitted? If it is enough that the data is simply emailed to you when the user submits, then most probably you won't have to do any php or asp programming. Your host definitely has a script installed that sends the form data to the email address you specify. You just have ask their support or look at their FAQ to know the name of the script. That'll be enough.

If you want to do anything else with the data then let us know and we will tell you how to do that.
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hasnatme

Thanks both of you guys. When user click on the submitt button then another page appear..which name is mail_send.asp. Then what is that? And how do I confirm that user cannot leave any empty field or invalid e-mail. And how to put action on the submitt button.

Thanks already.
Hasnat Jamil.
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quantum

In this particular page, the form input is validated with javascript, which resides on the same page in the header part. Javascript is convenient in this case, because javascript is client based and the browser can validate the data fields immediately without having to send the data to the server and have it come back.

//Edit...you can check the javascript code from the View-Source of the page, in the header section.

It is pretty simple and actually you can use it with minimal modification for your purposes too. Note that you can also use PHP or ASP for such validation, but that is not preferable. Because it would take the extra time to send the data to the server.

Now, things would be easier for us if

1. you tell us what you want to do with the data
2. check out if your host already has a form mailer script running and learn how to use that, as I mentioned earlier. Most probably your host already has a script like the mail_send.asp in the cgi bin. In that case all you have to do is point your html form to that script, like this,

<form name="form1" method="post" action="/cgi-sys/formmail.pl">
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Last edited by quantum on Mon Aug 23, 04 11:19 am; edited 5 times in total

hasnatme

Thanks quantum...I will let you know when I will build our website. I have just strated the site.....and I have enough experiences on design, animation, presentation making, flash or etc. But have not any good idea about website developement. You can visit our demo site @here"http://www.hnass.com/
work/website/index.htm" just making the interface.

Thanks.
Hasnat Jamil.
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redsky · Beginner User Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 26

hello everybody,
i want to test my form page in my local computer. So i install apache 1.3.13 web server with mysql,php. When i click submit button on my web page, then i see error masseg like this

Code:

"Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /insertOK.htm."

Am i doing wrong with apache config file or writing code?

quantum

Hi redsky,

It is happening because you are not allowed to post to an HTML page with a form submit. You can post to .pl or .php file. So try to change the "action=something.php" . And why would you want to post to an HTML file anyway? An html file will not let you do any processing or anything with the data.

On a personal note, we encourage people to start a new thread for each new problem. This allows you maximum visibility. Most people would'nt check out the end of this old thread for the new problem.
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redsky · Beginner User Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 26

Thanks, i try it on my computer.
You are right. But i think, this is spam and harmful for forum. And there are a lot of new threads. So i do not start a new poll. Thus i post here.

quantum

Thanks redsky for your concern. But trust me that it is NOT harmful to start new thread if it is a new problem. Instead, new topic makes it more searchable both by google and the forum search. It makes things more categorised. And any respectable forum has thousands of threads. So number of threads is not a problem, so long it discusses a new topic or problem. Gentle smile

A topic is considered spam if someone does not really want solution to a problem but posts a message or topic just to advertise his company or website. We quickly take action against such posts. If we kept all the spams posted so far we would probably had over 3000 posts by now.

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redsky · Beginner User Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 26

Thanks admin.