php in Blue voda and forms

[Nite Producer]

Hi people, here, I really need help from pros, anyway, I followed the tutorials about creating forms in blue voda, and it talks about a php page and codes in note pad, weel, look what I did,

I created a note pad file called it with the name of my page .php
I saved as the same page with .php

so now I have a page named page.php and a note pad file named page.php

is it right what I did?

should I publish both files with Blue FTP? or what?

and about the same subject, I just discover that in page properties in Blue Voda I can decide to put it as html or php, should I change that as well?

or I have just to change to php and save it as .bvp

anyway, I guess it's more confusing now for you, but I'm confused as well, can you just tell me the step by step what to do?

[davidundalicia]

Re: php in Blue voda and forms

Go to this url and all will become a lot clearer....
.http://netisopen.com/computer/web/webpagestuff.html
Its an excelent step by step tutorial on forms and php.......
do not ftp your 2 files as the 2nd one will overwrite the first one.....

[Nite Producer]

Re: php in Blue voda and forms

How comes, you say it will overwrite, I still get them in a same folder both of them.

that web site you gave me is not that helpful but thank you anyway

[davidundalicia]

Re: php in Blue voda and forms

If you have ftp´d both file to the same dir then the option to overwrite is off.
There are many diferent ways to create forms as you have seen in the forums.......What sort of form are you looking to create?
Contact form, get data form or what?

With a little more information, we might just be able to help you !!

[Nite Producer]

Re: php in Blue voda and forms

I created a first home page which is index, and I'm still working on the other pages, what I did is just published the index and put a link to a form page temporary, in this form you put your name, your e-mail and some questions and comment and click get info, so then you will receive an automatic response with an information about my web site and what does my club that I'm creating now.

[davidundalicia]

Re: php in Blue voda and forms

Ok Nite Producer, I visited your site and with the info you have just supplied
I think we can help you.....

1) Please go back to that tutorial that I mentioned earlier and look under
Contact form using php mailto script - with field validation
this will get you started on your form and with what you learn creating this form you can extend to the rest of the fields required.....

2) You can then use the automatic answering facility as required....

Hope this gets you started..............

[Nite Producer]

Re: php in Blue voda and forms

Al right, Got it, but one of the customer support told when I've sent a ticket to upload both files, the notepad.php and the page.php, and now each one is telling me different advises, anyway, I guess the best solution is to be patient and try everything untill it works, That's computer and web hehehe.

Thanks for help, by the way what you think about the home page, personaly I find it boring, but it's just temp page now.

[davidundalicia]

Re: php in Blue voda and forms

Its not bad for a start. I am sure you will improve it as time goes on.....

Word of advice about these forums......Duplicate threads tend to be ignored
so please try to wait for futher input.......