I would like to make a web form that collects cc#'s from my customers that is PCI Compliant in as simple a manner as possible. 99% of the time my clients are not being charged at all, and the cc is used simply to ensure a service is confirmed. If they were to be charged, I would have to do that manually as no payment gateways currently deposit into banks in the country I am in.

One thought I had would be if I could have the cc# either split, or broken up into separate fields and emailed separately. I am told this is PCI Compliant. I would also be fine with the cc# being split between database and email. I know this is possible w/ zen cart, but I have been unable to find any scripts that do this and don't have a need for a shopping cart addition to my site.

One thing that is a necessity is that the majority of the data input to the form be emailed. So, I'm basically hoping to protect the cc data in the simplest way possible, which I thought would be to break it up. I'll be trashing the cc #'s once I get them. I have no need to file them.

I do have a SSL on my server.

I am completely open to other suggestions.

My skills are rudimentary. I taught myself to write some html and also use Dreamweaver to subsidize for what I can't code myself. I apologize if this should be in one of the scripting forums.

can't be done with HTML at all

Should this thread be moved to another forum, or is there some other workaround that would achieve the goal of not emailing the entire email input together?

Is there a way that the email can be disguised as soon as someone hits the submit button? Like all but the first 5 numbers become X's? And if this is possible, is it fully secure, or could someone possibly still find that entire number/input?

It probably should,

are you going to let us know what serverside code your server supports?

Sure thing, my server supports PHP 4/5, PERL 5.6/5.8, Ruby, Python, and MySQYL 4/5. I hope that's helpful.

This might be best in a PHP or MySQYL forum?