Forms Processing, etc.

Hi HWG-Businesser's:

I'm back with more questions! I'm really going to have to start learning to
do some of this stuff myself, but I just don't seem to have the time!!
Anyway, a new potential client wants several forms on his site: two order
forms and one credit card form.  He doesn't want "off the street"
business-he sells photos and he mails proofs of the photos to the customers
before hand. He just wants them to be able to easily order the photos once
they see the proofs. So there won't be the need for a shopping cart. Just an
order form indicating their name, etc., the file number on their proofs,
what package and quantity they want, etc. Once they're done completing this
form, they can order more photos from other proofs or a video. At this
point, if they're ordering more than one thing, he wants the information
they've already filled in to appear so they don't have to retype it. First
question: How is this accomplished (or should I say, what is the easiest way
to accomplish this?)

>From that point, they would go to the credit card form, which would ask
their name, etc., and credit card info. He doesn't want to process the
transactions on the Internet, he just wants a *secure* form that comes to
him with the credit card info. and he will process them manually.  Second
Question:  How do I get multiple forms (i.e., the order form(s) and credit
card form) to submit together? Third Question: How can he receive the data
and what can it look like when he receives it. He would prefer to receive
the info in an e-mail, but a legible e-mail.

I can do straight HTML forms, but haven't yet had to "process" the results.

Sorry for my ignorance. One day, I hope to know everything there is to know
about everything (I won't hold my breath :) Right now on my list of things I
need to know is Web forms and Web/database integration!

Thanks,
Kelly Williamson
kelly(at)williamson.net
Image Online Services
www.imageos.com

P.S. Thanks so much to everyone who replied to my long survey form question
several weeks ago. The client is still trying to get their funding from the
state, but were very excited about having it done, so that should be coming
down the pike (fingers crossed).

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