Can anyone help me with regards to CGI scripts for forms.

 

I have a mailto form on my non-live site at the moment which doesn't work.

 

when the user clicks on submit, the form must email the contents to me and forward the user onto a secure payment site (the payment site automatically re-directs them to the website once payment is complete).

 

Firstly should I create a CGI script myself/ and how would I do that?

 

Or should I buy one (don't like the free ones) and ask the hosting company if they accept CGI scripts.

 

I cannot upload the site to the WWW until this form works, so please help

 

Thank you

If you want an easy Perl/cgi form processor have a look at http://form2email.net/ - I've been using it for years and it's very configurable, you can set multiple "thank you" landing pages, different recipient emails, file uploads, save data to CSV and so on

Thanks for the recommendation I will have a look at that. Better than trying to learn Perl

No point in reinventing the wheel

If you want to try using a PHP form I found the one on this site to be very good: Tectite.com.

 

Andrew