Integrating Form to a Database!

[wisfort]

Pls i want someone to assist me on how i can integrate an email contact form into my web hosting account.

1.I have just hosted "economy package account" with godaddy. Would the package allow .php files?

2.Am i going to create a database?

Thirdly, how am i going to be accessing the submitted data in the "formail.php" in the email contact form below.


This is the specimen of email contact form:
<div id="webcontact">
<form name="form1" method="post" action="formmail.php">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="recipient" value="info@xxxxxxxx.com">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/thanks.htm">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="required" value="name,email">Name -- <font color="#FF0000">*required</font><br>
<input name="name" type="text" size="25" class="webcontact1" tabindex="1">
<br>Email -- <font color="#FF0000">*required</font><br>
<input name="email" type="text" size="25" class="webcontact1" tabindex="2">
<br>Subject<br>
<input name="subject" type="text" size="25" class="webcontact1" tabindex="3">
<br>Message<br>
<textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="5" class="webcontact1" tabindex="4">Kindly leave your message here! </textarea>
<br>How Did You Find Us?<br>
<select size="1" name="howdidyoufindus" class="webcontact1" tabindex="5">
<option>---none---</option>
<option>Yahoo Search Engine</option>
<option>Google Search Engine</option>
<option>Other Search Engines</option>

</select> <br>
<br><input type="submit" value="submit form" class="webcontact2"><input type="reset" id="Reset" value="clear" name="clear" class="webcontact2">
</form>
</div>

[dvduval]

I don't know how deep you want to get into this, but certainly you would need to learn about creating a mysql database, setting up values, and writing a script in php (yes, it works on godaddy) to add it to the database. Then of course you are probably going to want to write a script to view the data in the database.

An alternative that might be a little faster for you would be to use a Form from Google Docs. You could probably be up and running in less than an hour.