Sumbitting form from Adobe Livecycle

[score444]

I have recently designed a website for a local window factory. As part of the website, they needed their order form placed on the website so customers could fill out the different specifications. The problem that I am having is that when the user goes to submit the form, it must go through an email client to be emailed to the sales department. This is fine for customers that have email clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird configured, but what about the customers that don't have this? How can I change it so when the user submits the form it gets submitted to some kind of web server automatically with no email involved? In case you need to see the form, the link is http://northeastwindowsusa.com/NorthEast Windows USA Order Form.pdf

 

[tomdavies]

Hi score444,

Don't know how helpful this will be as I'm not sure about it's integration with PDF documents, could work though.

If the submission is in any way similar to HTML forms, then you'd need a form handler/processor. A nice free one, written in PHP and with some extensive documentation is PHP FormMail (http://www.tectite.com/formmailpage.php).

I've used it on quite a few websites in the past, although moved on to using ASP.net's mail system now since I mostly write in .net for the web.

Hope this is in some way helpful.

 

[score444]

Thanks for the reply tomdavies. Unfortunately, I don't know if that formmail is what I am looking for. In Adobe LiveCycle, the sumbit button allows me to submit the form to a URL. I had been using mailto: whatever@whatever.com, but as I stated before, this just brings up an email client.
So I guess my question is, how do I set up a web server (or something like it) on my website so I can have the submit to url box direct to whatever.northeastwindowsusa.com or northeastwindowsusa.com/whatever that will allow the form to be submitted to the website and stored?
Hopefully I am being clear enough here. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks in advance.

 

[rusty.nells]

The URL needs to point to a script. The script handles the form data by storing and/or emailing it. PM me if you need some help.