Forms, Shopping Carts, Credit Cards

[goosealaska]

Okay so I have a site for individuals to sign up students for summer camps, science classses ect. I have been playing with forms and cgi and am beginning to figure it out . . .some. I am sending the forms to my email through monstermail. I have looked into shopping carts but it seems like to high a monthy/per use charge for my needs. I'm not talking about hundreds of transactions each month.

I'm thinking I would be better off just processing the cards on my own. Can I simply have a credit card field as part of my form--is that secure enough?

Any other suggestions?

[sjlplat]

I wouldn't recommend processing credit card information with a basic web-based form. You need to take far more care with sensitive data like that. If you need to process credit card information and you don't have the knowledge to process the data securely within your site, sign up with a merchant service such as Paypal.

[tsweeney91831@roadrunner.]

I agree about CC and want to put a link for PayPal on my site on a form I built with Publisher 2007 (poormans WE)

My site deals with coordianting info for my high school class and class reunions. I have created two forms but I seem to be doing something wrong as the response forms direct the info to be sent to me via e-mail but I receive nothing. wher am I going wrong?

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[pghcollectibles]

this is a random guess but is it because your form opening tag:

<form action=--WEBBOT-SELF-- method=post> is within a conditional tag:

<![if !pub]>its hard for me to read with all that extra coding put in by the web page builder.

i did notice it doesnt layout well in firefox.

and with all those email addresses just sitting there im sure those people dont like their emails being harvested and spammed so i would look into email obfuscating
or better yet some type of php form submission to eliminate posting of the emails at all. that is what the social networks do, even in this vbulletin made forum it is like that.

didnt mean to bash, just hopefully constructive critisism