[tomyam]

Hi, I am taking DreamWeaver class now and I have a question about what to fill in Action field when creating a form. My instructor told me that I need to contact my hosting provider.
According to my text book, "The Action field allows you to specify the program, often, a Common Gateway Interface script, that processes the user's form data. You can type in the path to this program. In most cases, you'll need to get this information from your hosting provider.

Please help

Thank you.

[Leder678]

the action field should be the script file you made that processes the submitted form.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_post.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_get.asp

However, CGI isn't enabled on the free host, if that's what you are using.

[tomyam]

Mmm, I don't know if I'm using PHP.

Here's my coding.

<form action="" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" name="contact" id="contact">
<p>Your Name:
<label for="Mailing_list_name"></label>
<input name="Mailing_list_name" type="text" id="Mailing_list_name" size="55" maxlength="35" />
<br />
<br />
Your Email:
<label for="Mailing_list_email"></label>
<input name="Mailing_list_email" type="text" id="Mailing_list_email" size="55" maxlength="55" />
<br />
<br />
Inquiry: <br />
<label>
<textarea name="Inquiry" id="Inquiry" cols="58" rows="5"></textarea>
</label></p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="reset" name="Reset" id="Reset" value="Reset" />
&nbsp; </p>

</form>

My question is , with this coding, how can I retrieve information that inputted in the field?? I really appreciate your help!

[Leder678]

That is pure HTML.

You need to create a script in PHP (if you are going to use this host), Ruby, ASP etc. that handles the form.

The action="" should be the path to the script that handles the form, e.g. <form action="post.php" method="post">

Then you need a file named post.php, inside this file, you should use the information from the form for whatever you want, I linked to some w3schools tutorials in my previous reply.