I'm a newbie.......please help me

[Trish]

Hello, i'm kinda new to javascipt and i was hoping someone could please help me. I have made a basic site and i want to add a form to it (i think it's called a form). I am running a competition and i basically want people to go to my site and add their Name, Phone Number, and Email....then press submit and the information is stored somewhere.....at the end of the month i have to view all the names and pick a winner. I really don't know where to start.

When they press submit does their info go to a microsoft access file...that i can locate????I'm really not sure how it would work.......I was also hoping to make it that they can submit their details more than once.....but not more than once a day....
Thanks to all that answer,
Trish:o

[beetle]

Hey Trish, and welcome to CodingForums =)

You cannot achieve this task with javascript. You DO need a form, but you will need some sort of server-side technology to store the submitted data. It could be stored into MSAccess, although that's rarely the case with a DB connected directly to a website. Typically, this is done with text-files, MySql, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, et al.

For the programming, you'd need Perl, PHP, ASP, Java, ColdFusion, etc.

Do you know what technologies your hosting company supports/provides?

[Trish]

I'm not really sure....i know that it supports mysql...i don't even know if that answered your question. Anyway thanks for your reply...it looks a bit complicated to do at the moment. I might just set up a guestbook and get them to put in their names that way. Unless you have a better alternative?????
Thanks,
Trish:o