Help with web forms

After years of putting this off, I have finally come to the conclusion that I should learn how to insert my own cgi forms. I'm tired of using those crappy free things with advertisements on them.

I have a friend that I need to make a form for. I'm not sure though how to make everything work. I think I need to know the basics of cgi 101 or somethign like that. DOes anyone have a link to a good site that takes you through it stpe by step. I've searched, but have not been able to find anythign good.

Thanks for the help.

CGI only, or would you like to maybe learn PHP, which in my opinion is easier to learn, and more versatile.

CGI isn't even a language... Normally when someone refers to CGI they really mean PERL, but it could be any language really.

But yeah, PHP is the easiest in my opinion. Probably the most widespread as well.

I have to agree, PHP is an all around better language. Its easier to learn, has become almost a standard language on the web, and is probably the most applicable. Might want to look into learning it instead of PERL.

However if you still want to learn PERL check out some of these books on amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-7531244-2821745

Or check out...
http://www.perl.com/ and fallow some of the links on that site. You should be able to find something that will help you out

Also if you don't want to write the script yourself, there are lots of them on www.hotscripts.com under PHP and then Email or something like that.

[QUOTE=deker]CGI isn't even a language... Normally when someone refers to CGI they really mean PERL, but it could be any language really.

But yeah, PHP is the easiest in my opinion. Probably the most widespread as well.[/QUOTE]Yea, you're right, I've just come accustomed to calling Perl scripts CGI because often they end with the .cgi extension, but you knew where I was coming from anyway.

[offtopic] holy **** its squid [/offtopic]

[QUOTE=!mo0chan!][offtopic] holy **** its squid [/offtopic][/QUOTE]
Yes it is. :D

ok so I did some research and got a basic php from mail template on my web site now. Only problem is that I dont think I'm editing it right. I tried duplicating some feilds but it's screwing it up for me take a lookhttp://sitexplode.net/fs2.2/ it reads txt_address rather than "Address" like all the other lines. Any suggestions?

Show us the code for the PHP script.