Need a little info about "Dreamweaver" HTML forms

I was using Microsoft Frontpage 2000 in which I created forms and was able to
use them with ease. Was recomenced to switch to Dreamweaver 2004. However, I
don't understand how some items in the forms work. MS Frontpage makes it very
easy to specify which .htm file will store the HTML form data and which page
should be displayed when the form is submitted successfuly. In Dreamweaver I
see a Action, Target, Enctype, and Class - and after playing with the help
files for hours I still can't figure out where the form results are stored, how
to access them and how to set the page that the user is re-directed to after
submitting the form successfully. Also how do I make a form field only accept
alphabets and no numbers. I was able to do these things in about an hour in
MS Frontpage 2000 (4 years older than Dreamweaver 2004). Please help.

Well unfortunately that feature is part of the FrontPage extensions on a
webserver. DW does not have extensions which is why it makes more compatible
code. Now to answer your questions. The help files won't help you in DW you
must have a form processing script to do something with the data. A good
script to use is formmail from http://www.hotscripts.com because they have more
scripts using PHP, ASP or CF depending on your server configuration. If you
need data stored to a database, then some of the scripts from that website will
do this, otherwise you can use the server behaviors window to
update/insert/delete fields in a database or you can always code it yourself.

somebody's gonna be sorry to have switched to Dreamweaver...

SnakEyez wrote:

Well unfortunately that feature is part of the FrontPage extensions on a
webserver. DW does not have extensions which is why it makes more compatible
code. Now to answer your questions. The help files won't help you in DW you
must have a form processing script to do something with the data. A good
script to use is formmail from http://www.hotscripts.com because they have more
scripts using PHP, ASP or CF depending on your server configuration. If you
need data stored to a database, then some of the scripts from that website will
do this, otherwise you can use the server behaviors window to
update/insert/delete fields in a database or you can always code it yourself.

I've switched back to Frontpage 2000 as my web server supports those extensions
and I'm sure there is no lack of web servers that do. I will try the
web-sites you gave for help on other scripts, thank you for your help.

Take a look at http://phpforms.net
It's the best tool for web forms creation I've ever saw. I've found it
to be a great solution to my needs. Hope that it meets yours.