Urgent online form help needed

[peekaboo]

I am building a website for a conference that my lab is hosting and i need to set up an online registration form that people fill out and click "submit" and it gets sent to me.

i can build the pages but have no experience with online forms and i have no time to learn as this needs to be up and running now.

i need a hold-my-hand explanation/tutorial on how to do this (as soon as possible). i promise to learn how to do it properly but right now i need a quick fix.

thanks

[faulkner132]

As best a beginner walkthrough you will find:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

[mauriciorossi]

Originally Posted by faulkner132 As best a beginner walkthrough you will find: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

thats just the design, itd be non functional

thats as far as i got too lol

[faulkner132]

Walking someone through how to create forms is too much of an open ended question. After the form is submitted, what do you want to do? Enter the info into a database? Send an email? Go to another page?

You have to get the design done correctly first, otherwise the next step will not function properly.

[peekaboo]

thanks for the replies but i knew it was too much to ask for in so little time.
i took the easy way out for now and just posted a request to send me a registration email with their details.
i'll learn how to do it properly in my own time.

but if anyone would like to help me in the meantime, the old form (from a site which i did not build but am authorized to copy/modify) contains the following:

form method="POST"
action="http://depts.washington.edu/nwbs/_bin/mycgi.cgi"
name="reg" onsubmit="return verify(this)"

i replaced the web address with my address and not surprisingly got a message saying:The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL...

what do i need to do so that "post" is allowed?
what is the "post" action?
i'd also be happy if it just sent me an email with the info.

[mairving]

Is the form on that you are trying to submit on the washington.edu site?

[peekaboo]

the form is a registration for a conference. it was hosted by the university of washington last year and is hosted by mine this year.
here's the link to the form on the u of washington's site.

[Statica]

CGI access to the script is likely restricted to pages within uwashington (as it rightfully should be, else it becomes an easy target for spammers etc). What are the capabilities of your web server? Are you able to use PHP? If so it's fairly easy to write up a simple php script that will do the necessary processing. Check out www.hotscripts.com for easy to use scripts, if you dont want to learn how to write one from scratch.