FormASP.com

HTML Forms handling

Why outsourcing HTML forms handling ?

You might have created a static web site, without a PHP or Java engine, and you wish to process forms ? Making forms with a "mailto" action does not work very well, and is incompatible with some ISPs. With FormASP.com (aka formulaires.net for French speakers), you don't have to pay for a general purpose dynamic web engine (PHP, Java, database...) just to handle forms, all the handling is done by us. You don't need to redevelop webforms handling scripts. When forms are submitted, FormASP.com can send you an email, keep the informations in its database, or both. The price of the service is US$ 5/form/month. You can register online, and contact us at sales@FormASP.com.

A short user's manual

Once you have received an idenfier and a password, you can create forms on FormASP.com. You need to create one FormASP.com form for each HTML form you want us to handle. In the sequel, we will assume your identifier is "jdoe" and that you create a form named "test". Choose to create a new form, and enter "test" in the "id" field. The "site" field is the name of your site. You then need to fill-in

The full URL of your form
The name of the main field (it will be used when displaying answers)
The confirmation URL (displayed after processing the form)
A default "back", or "refresh" URL. It will be used if FormASP.com does not manage to guess the page the user was coming from when displaying the form.
An URL to display if a required field is missing.
A choice to send emails to one or several email addresses (separated by commas) for each answer, and/or to use the database

On your site, you have to

Create your HTML form with your own design.
Display the form with "http://FormASP.com/form/jdoe/test/form".
Use as "action" URL in the form "http://FormASP.com/form/jdoe/test/process".
Use "http://FormASP.com/form/jdoe/test/back" to go back to the page the user was coming from when displaying the form. You will typically have a link to this URL in your confirmation page, or use a delayed forward with "<META HTTP-EQUIV='Refresh ' CONTENT='10;URL=http://FormASP.com/form/jdoe/test/back'>"

The names of the fields in your form are free. One of them must be the main field entered in the form creation form. One name is reserved, "required". It is used to indicate required fields, for instance with "<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME='required' VALUE='name'>", which indicated that the NAME='name' field is mandatory.

Payment

It is done through paypal, in US dollars, with VISA, Mastercard, American Express or Discover. Payment can be monthy, quarterly, or yearly, corresponding to $5/form/month.