Scripting languages for web development

Is there a scripting language that can be programmed to send information from a html form to an email address and can be done in Windows XP not Unix? If so, tell me the language and where I could get a tutorial from for that please.

Welcome to the forums cturner.

ASP is Windows based. You can use JMail, ASPEmail, ASPMail, CDONTs.

For Jmail:
http://host.cdesystems.com/faq/jmai...line_manual.htm
http://host.cdesystems.com/faq/jmai...l_component.htm

But you have to see what your hosting company suports. Most do not support CDONTs because of security flaws. If you are hosting this yourself on Windows XP professional, CDONTs is an option:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webte...mail/faq2.shtml

You should use PHP. PHP will not only run on Windows - like its Microsoft-created counterpart, ASP - but is completely portable to Unix, Linux, MacOSX, and FreeBSD. Any scripts that you create on your WindowsXP box are immediately portable to almost any webserver.

PHP - unlike ASP - is completely free to download, install, and use for either personal use or for business use.

As of April 2002, PHP is the World’s Most Popular Language for building dynamic websites - more popular than ASP, ColdFusion, JSP, Perl, TCL, Python, etc.

PHP enjoys a large user community (such as the one here on Devshed) - meaning when you have a question about how to use the language, 500,000 open-source PHP developers are there to help you.

PHP also enjoys a large offering of free, ready-to-use scripts - from email senders, to online forums - to entire e-commerce solutions and content management systems. If you need to launch a website in a hurry, or just want to review another developer's code for inspiration, there is PHP code out there for you.

PHP can connect to a multitude of databases - including the free-to-use SQL databases from MySQL and PostgreSQL.

If you need enterprise-class solutions for PHP development in your business, or at the company you work for, PHP is supported by the company Zend, which can provide you with a professional Integrated Development Environment, code compilers, accelerators, and support for your PHP applications.

Thanks.