How to get form comments to post

[davidc]

I have finished building a (Dreamweaver) website which comprises a number of picture galleries. I want to enable visitors to leave comments in a form and have the comments appear below the form and a notification sent to me by email. I don't need a database for the comments - I want to be able to delete the comments and add them by hand to a table of comments which also allows me to add a response. You can see what I mean here (my current website) -

http://www.davidcolepictures.co.uk/Visitors_Email.htm

It is very easy to set this up in Frontpage because the Extensions do the work for you but I cannot find any similarly easy way of achieving what I want in a Dreamweaver site. I know I need to put some script on my host server - ?php -but am lost as to what this should be or how to do it. I have researched extensively on the web and still have not found a simple idiot's guide to how to achieve what I want. I don't need or want a whole guestbook - just to see comments appear on a page on my website following insertion in a form.

I am re-building my website because MS and my website host have withdrawn support for Frontpage Extenions and I need to make an alternative arrangement.

I am sure that what I want to do is simple enough but I am at a loss as to how to do it.

Thanks for any help.

David

[KDLA]

A simple ASP form can do wonders:
http://www.brainjar.com/asp/formmail/

KDLA

[davidc]

A simple ASP form can do wonders:
http://www.brainjar.com/asp/formmail/

KDLA

Thanks. This doesn't seem to post the comments just email them.
Is this really as easy as it gets? If it is, may be I need to pay someone to do this for me.
David

[KDLA]

This will only email them, because in the 1st paragraph of your post asked for something that "add them by hand to a table of comments which also allows me to add a response."

To have things post, it's best to have them in a database. You can do this with an ASP form, which puts the comments in a database; and with some ASP coding, which would then place the comments into your HTML file. You need to store the comments somewhere -- not just have them go from the form to the webpage without some repository for them to reside.

It sounds to me like what you really want is a blog. WordPress (http://wordpress.org/) is really easy to use, and free. You will only need to find out what type of operating system your web host has, and whether or not they will let you have a database & the space to install the program.

[davidc]

This will only email them, because in the 1st paragraph of your post asked for something that "add them by hand to a table of comments which also allows me to add a response."

To have things post, it's best to have them in a database. You can do this with an ASP form, which puts the comments in a database; and with some ASP coding, which would then place the comments into your HTML file. You need to store the comments somewhere -- not just have them go from the form to the webpage without some repository for them to reside.

It sounds to me like what you really want is a blog. WordPress (http://wordpress.org/) is really easy to use, and free. You will only need to find out what type of operating system your web host has, and whether or not they will let you have a database & the space to install the program.


Sorry - I thought the second sentence of my first post was clear - "...and post the comments underneath..". I want the comments to appear on the same page as, but below, the form, but not in a table or grid, or in any particular formatted form. I'll have a look at Wordpress but I didn't think I wanted anything as elaborate as a blog because my only contribution will be to respond to questions which visitors put to me. I'll have to think about that. Thanks.

David