Testing Forms in Dreamweaver

Video Transcript

"Hello everyone. My name is David Casuto from San Fransisco Computer Tutors. And in this video tutorial, we're going to show you how to test the forms that you've already created to see if the forms are working and when somebody clicks submit, it goes to the place that you intended for them to go. In this brief tutorial, we're going to show you how to basically, or just talk to you a little bit about how to test your form. So we have a form that's here, and we set this up using our forms panel. And we named all of our different form fields, and you can look up here in our form panel here, and each one's last name, first name, and address, etcetera. And we've set up how many lines we want, all those different things, how long it's going to be, etcetera. And we also have our submit button here. And let's go ahead and look at it in the browser. Let's go ahead and save it. And we see here we can actually put the stuff in there, and it actually acts as a real form. Okay. I can go on to the next line just like I put in there as multiple lines. I can hit tab, go from space to space. Shift-tab, go back and forth. And I can also click submit. All right, now at this point, when I click submit, it takes me right back to where I am right now because we need to actually put in some different code. Okay. We actually need to put in some server scripts in there. So that's something you're going to want to talk to your server about or actually get the script for making this link up. So what's going to be important is that what you name these fields ends up in your script. So this tutorial is not necessarily going to be about actually creating that script. You can find the script either from your server or you can get some ASP script. You can sometimes get that stuff off the web, etcetera. And basically what you're making this form do is once you click submit, it will actually go to an inbox of somebody's, whoever is in charge of it. So whether it's you and your business or it's going to be some generic file or something like that. Okay. So this is one way to test it out. But then, you're going to definitely want to make sure once the script goes in there, that when you hit send or submit, it does go to the inbox which you specify. Okay. Thanks everyone. Well that concludes our video tutorial on testing forms. I hope you enjoyed that. Once again, my name is David Casuto from San Fransisco Computer Tutors. And you can look me up on yelp.com under San Fransisco Computer Tutors. And feel free to give me a jingle anytime. Thanks."