forms question

[Lethal1983]

Hi All
Im fairly new to web design so please forgive me.

Im using dreamweaver to develop a site which is in html.

I have made a form which is going to be used for a booking request which i want sent to an email address. Ive heard that people can use your form to send spam so i dont want this to happen either

What is the easiest way to do this, keeping in mind that im new to this

Thanks for your help

[Wickham]

To avoid spam you can either use PHP to send from data to a database (probably a bit too complicated for a beginner) or use Formmail
http://www.email-form.com/?gclid=CN_x3PzV2I0CFQralAodA26BYA
Form Processor Pro is secure and spam-proof,

http://www.email-form.com/overview.html
which says:-
Works with any HTML / web form
Anti-bot and SPAM protection with CAPTCHA new

or you can use Javascript to "mung" the email address (Mash Until No Good) which breaks the email address into bits and re-assembles at the viewer's browser so that spam bots don't pick it up.
The principle of this is shown here, but I haven't tried it with a form although I believe it is possible:-
http://www.wickham43.supanet.com/tutorial/generaladvice.html#emailaddresses

edit............

This link
http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=6534&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15&sid=4172a230b28777120a792f1584a43c7a
seems to imply that a contact form is safer; it means that the email address is not supplied in the form. I'm not quite sure what they mean, but I think they are saying that a form which asks the viewer to read and copy images with letters into a validation box is required so that human action is necessary which a spam spider can't do. Google "contact forms" for code.

Here's code to set up a database which will also avoid spam to your email address:-
http://www.wickham43.net/formphptomysql.php