How to make a web form?

[PsYcHo 1]

hi friends,
this is my first time on this forum. so kindly ignore my faults. i have just started the doing the html. i don't much about it. i have given an assignment to make a web form. i have tried a lot of different things but nothing was working. so i gave up and thought that some guys would help me. so i am posting my query here. hope that someone can help me soon. thanks in advance.

[kelfro]

Working with HTML forms is a little bit hard work. The good thing is that you can design forms using any HTML editor. In order to get a form working, it is not enough to just design the form itself in HTML. First you will have to create a new HTML form handler. A form handler is a program that runs on the web-server. The processing code is commonly provided by a web host as a cgi script. The displayed form and the processing component are two separate files. The formmail script can be called by any web page not just your form.

[MindSpace]

For making the web form you should know how does a web form work?
. Just looking at the following points, you will understand it.

1. A user visits a web page that contains a form.
2. Then the HTML form is displayed by the web browser.
3. The user fills in the form and submits.
4. The browser sends the submitted form data to the web server.
5. A form processor script running on the web server processes the form data.
6. A response page is sent back to the browser.

These are the steps that takes place when you input something on the web. Keeping this in mind you would have to make a web page.

[void]

I think that now you should know the steps involved in the web page. Besides that you will have to do the coding for the validation and the verification which is very important for the web page. Doing this is the real tough job. A standard web form has the following parts :

1. The HTML code for the form.
2. Input validations.
3. Form processor script.

[kyosang]

HTML has tags for creating a web form and the input elements. Instead of giving the big coding consisting of many things, I thought providing you with sample of simple HTML form would be more useful. Here is the coding for the same :

<form action="cgi-bin/formtrial.pl" method="post">
    name: <input type="text" name="name" value="" size="25" maxlength="50">
    place: <input type="text" name="place" value="" size="25" maxlength="50">
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="sign up!">
</form>