How to set up a web subscription service?

[icklejez]

Hi,

I'm just trying to find out how this more than likely simple form works in HTML,

I want the user to input their email and have it sent to me somehow i guess, probably to an email address of my choosing, say 'subscriptions@mail.com'

but how does this work then, what would i have to put in the form? would it be post, what would i post?

the one im trying to work out looks like this:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/829/howlm4.jpg

and the code is like this, but im lost as to where the email address is being submitted to another inbox...

<form action="http://www.email-publisher.com/survey/index.html" method="POST" name="TEPremotesub">
<input type="hidden" name="branding" value="900063802">
<input type="hidden" name="primarylanguage" value="eng">
<input type="hidden" name="secondarylanguage" value="None">
<input type="hidden" name="lists" value="900063802">
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<input type="text" size="24" name="email" value="your email address" onfocus="if (document && document.TEPremotesub && document.TEPremotesub.email && document.TEPremotesub.email.value == 'your email address') document.TEPremotesub.email.value = '';" />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Subscribe" /><br />

cheeeers

 

[troytime]

the form needs to submit to a server side script like php or asp or cold fusion or even perl

typically have forms submit to themselves, and then have make the action/content of the page conditional

what server side languages do you have available?