Advice on email submit project

[ohg123]

I am developing a calendar of events for a client based on one they publish in their monthly newsletter (print).

Almost every day of the month has multiple events.

What I want is for each event to be a clickable link to a landing page form that contains relevant fields.

Once the fields are filled they click "submit" and the information is emailed to the appropriate person as designated by the client for that event.

I can do the calendar and the form, form javascript validation.

What I am not sure about is the best way to handle the emailing of the information. I found a CGI script option that I have been fooling with but i am wondering if there is a better way as the clients website is managed by a large corporation and is resistant to allowing me access to their FTP at all, especially to mess with scripts and ftp permissions.

any other avenues that would be more agreeable to their web company? is a cgi script the best way to do this at all? i am more of a designer and was sort of press ganged into this but i find it interesting and would enjoy doing the project.

thanks

[oracleguy]

Virtually all server side languages can send emails if they don't like using CGI, see if there is another one they prefer you'd use. How is this calendar going to be updated? Are all the events going to be stored in a database?

[ohg123]

unfortunately the only way i will get the content is with an early print of their magazine. so it will be up to me to copy everything one way or another anyways. lots of time but i can always play around with ways to streamline that part.

is there a scripting language that would be easier on my brain or one that would be most useful for future projects? if i need to learn it anyways might as well learn the most popular one.