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[Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline)]

Web contact form -- email or database?Hello, 

What's the budget? Like you said, email is quick and works.

DB is the better choice...but what does the budget permit?

If you don't have the money, convince them of why the DB is better.
Its  somehting that is an easy sell to my clients when we discuss forms.

Also, if you build it once, make it modular and easy to reuse ..that'll drop
the inplementation cost and allow you to deploy it in almost situation.

- Ben

Ben Sgro, Chief Engineer
ProjectSkyLine - Defining New Horizons

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cliff Hirsch 
  To: NYPHP Talk 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:10 PM
  Subject: [nycphp-talk] Web contact form -- email or database?


  Appreciate thoughts on contact/help forms on a web site:

  Options:

    1.. Directly send email to admins 
    2.. Store form in database for online viewing by admins


  Thoughts? Email is simplest - the infrastructure is in place. But storing the form in a database is more powerful. Allows analysis, history, logging, response time measurements, multiple personnel to view the form, etc. Hummm, think I just convinced myself DB is way to go.

  Cliff



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