Posted by David Dorward on 11/13/19 11:26

graham@jhn316.karoo.co.uk wrote:

> I'm doing a small business website for a relative, which needs a way
> for customers to submit an order form.

The basic approach is covered here:
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Email_form_data

However, since this is an *order* form, I would suspect that you are going
to be dealing with sensitive data (such as credit card numbers). If so then
you are going to have to encrypt the data whenever it passes over the wire,
and need to ensure that it remains secure if it is sitting on the server.
This seriously adds to the complexity of the issue and given that you
stated you were a beginner at HTML, I'll assume you aren't expect in all
the relevant technologies needed.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-overview-outside
suggests that it can handle an existing shopping cart or provide one if you
don't have such a tool already, so its probably a reasonable approach.



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