Order form Email Problem

[nbanyan]

I'm trying to figure out the Shopping Cart at
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/shoppingcart.html.
However, it uses a mailto: operation to send the order resaults. This causes some unwanted error flags from the browser and the .dat attachment that is sent with the email is uninteligable. Is there any way to easily use php or some other method to send the form resaults in plain text?

My programming experiance is limited to C++ and HTML.
Thank you.

[PeOfEo]

Do not do a client side shopping cart. The mailto attribute is extreamly limited because if the user does not have a mail client on their machine it will not work. Also its goodies, I like them for teaching the basics about html and how a markup language works but I mean their code does suck. You should use a server side language to do shopping carts and any mailing in general really. How much experience do you have with c++? I would suggest using c# to do asp.net, c# is similar to java and c++ in syntax, through it was more based on java, java was based on c++. If you know vb I think it would be better to use vb to do asp.net though because I heard on msdn that microsoft is going to be discontinueing c# in a few years.

[nbanyan]

Cool, Thanks. Do you know where some examples or tutorials would be? I use to know a bit of vb and I have some books, but some working examples/source would be nice.

[PeOfEo]

Well I would always start at www.asp.net. They have a big tutorial section, also if you go to the control gallery and then go to ecommerce, I saw a whole bunch of shopping carts premade there that you can modify. I have a shopping cart in a book and the source codes are on a disk but you can probably get something better but if you cannot find anything I might be able to upload it or something.

[nbanyan]

Thank you.

[PeOfEo]

you might want to go here too http://www.asp.net/ControlGallery/default.aspx?Category=48&tabindex=2 . That is part of the ibuyspy porthole. If you download webmatrix and the starter kits from asp.net and get the eccommerce one it is sort of like .net nuke I mean it comes ready so you only need to configure it and it has a shopping cart