Form fields information

[FinishHost.com]

HI,

I am looking to pass some information through a form on my sites home page to
a whois lookup on another page (my order page) what is the best way to do this

the form is at http://testsite.finishhost.com and the order is at https://secure.finishhost.com/sales/...derwiz.php?v=3

I would like for it to work like this:
user inputs the domain name on the front page of my site and it gets passes to the order form and automatically does the lookup and goes to step 2 of the process (domain lookup results)

any one have any ideas on this? if i have not put enough information just let me know

[JuggoPop]

This might do better in the coding forum.

[FinishHost.com]

Could a mod move it for me?

[JuggoPop]

I'm sure they will... until then maybe someone will give you a decent answer to the question...

[FinishHost.com]

I hate to post this here, but do you guys have a PDA site for these forums I'm using a blackerry now and it is hard to veiw all the forums

[John Scott]

We did but it is disabled at the moment. We will get it up and running again shortly. Sorry about that.

[bill benson]

You need to add the form tags and submit button to your form. In the form tag set your action to the page name of your whois page.

In your whois page you will need to add php code to POST the form data to the page. You will then use php to insert that data into the form field on the whois page.

If this all sounded like greek to you I suggest you go through a tutorial or two using forms in PHP. I found this one http://www.tizag.com/phpT/forms.php but there are plenty. Its really pretty simple, but running through a couple of tutorials will help you integrate it into your site. You need to learn a little bit about forms and php to make this work.