I came across some assistance with a PHP form. However here's my problem.
The form by itself, will preview and work fine in the browser. But once I add it to my webpage (in place of my current form), my page won't load at all. So something isn't compatible somewhere with the form, and my page. Because my current form works fine (from a preview perspective, not from a functionality perspective).

So in summary...
1.) current form previews fine http://www.jacksonao.com/contactus.html
2.) new form will preview fine by itself
3.) webpage will not preview at all when current form is replaced with new form.

any tricks?

Here's the code for my new form:

<form method="post" action="sendeail.php">

<!-- DO NOT change ANY of the php sections -->
<?php
$ipi = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
$httprefi = getenv ("HTTP_REFERER");
$httpagenti = getenv ("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
?>

<input type="hidden" name="ip" value="<?php echo $ipi ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpref" value="<?php echo $httprefi ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpagent" value="<?php echo $httpagenti ?>" />

Your Name: <br />
<input type="text" name="visitor" size="60" />
<br />
Your Business Name:<br />
<input type="text" name="visitor business" size="60" />
<br />
Your Email Address:<br />
<input type="text" name="visitor email" size="60" />
<br />
Your Business URL:<br />
<input type="text" name="visitor web address" size="60" />
<br />
Your Phone Number:<br />
<input type="text" name="visitor phone" size="60" />
<br />
<br />
Please describe the types of information or services you are interested<BR />
in receiving from Jackson Administrative Outsourcing.
<br />
<textarea name="notes" rows="10" cols="65"></textarea>
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Send Mail" />
<br />
</form>

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Sarah Bernstein
Jackson Administrative Outsourcing
www.jacksonao.com

For a PHP form to work, your hosting package must support PHP, if it does, then the extension of your page must be PHP that is the file name of the page must be contactus.php rather than contactus.html
This is because the PHP extension (.php) tells your web server that this page contains PHP code.

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

Ok, thanks codehead I tried changing the extention and infact it still didn't work. So it turns out our server doesn't support PHP, I needed to use ASP. So through some trial and error and some advise from my web host company, I have something that works.... FINALLY! UGH.

I definitely figured out that creating a form is a lot more work than just using a template. There are many interacting variables that determine if it will or will not work.

here's the final product http://www.jacksonao.com/contactus.html
test it anyone, if you want

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Sarah Bernstein
Jackson Administrative Outsourcing
www.jacksonao.com

Looks great Sarah!

Yes, it would be SO nice if website mods and 'accessories' could all be 'plug and play' but there are a multitude of factors that go into it. You're learning so much though and as a business owner in the internet age there is no greater asset than having at least marginal control over your website!

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Hi Sarah, I'm about to send you a test message and noticed that the phone field it says

Your email phone number
(But you have a field for email above so much be a typo)

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One last note, now that I've sent a test...

The page title for the 'Thank you' page after sending needs to be looked at...it reads 'Thank you for visiting inquirng with ...... etc. etc.'

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Thanks Tess, the test worked. And I think I fixed the typos. That's what happens when you stare at the same page for too long

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Sarah Bernstein
Jackson Administrative Outsourcing
www.jacksonao.com