HTML Forms

damnyanks · 05-10-2000 5:10pm #1

yup your right, you need a cgi script to send it, all you have to do is change the path for it to send

Baz_ · 06-10-2000 12:12am

Hey I've just started HTML forms and I'm having a little trouble with getting stuff to submit.

The code is:

&lt;HTML&gt;
&lt;HEAD&gt;
&lt;TITLE&gt;Student Details Form&lt;/TITLE&gt;
&lt;/HEAD&gt;
&lt;BODY&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;Student Details&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/formmail"&gt;
&lt;INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="recipient" VALUE="bazzak14@yahoo.com"&gt;
&lt;INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="subject" VALUE="Student Details Form"&gt;
&lt;INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="redirect" VALUE="main.html"&gt;

&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Name:&lt;/STRONG&gt;
&lt;INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="nom" SIZE="25"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Student ID:&lt;/STRONG&gt;
&lt;INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="StudID" SIZE="15"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Address:&lt;/STRONG&gt;
&lt;TEXTAREA NAME="Address" ROWS="6" COLS="50"&gt;&lt;/TEXTAREA&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Email Address:&lt;/STRONG&gt;
&lt;INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="EmailAdd" SIZE="20"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Subjects:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
Programming
&lt;INPUT NAME="subjects" TYPE="checkbox" VALUE="Programming"&gt; 
Maths
&lt;INPUT NAME="subjects" TYPE="checkbox" VALUE="Maths"&gt; 
SAD
&lt;INPUT NAME="subjects" TYPE="checkbox" VALUE="SAD"&gt; 
Networking
&lt;INPUT NAME="subjects" TYPE="checkbox" VALUE="Networking"&gt; 
In Prog
&lt;INPUT NAME="subjects" TYPE="checkbox" VALUE="IProg"&gt;
&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit Your Entries"&gt;
&lt;INPUT TYPE ="reset" VALUE="Clear Your Entries"&gt;
&lt;/FORM&gt;
&lt;/BODY&gt;
&lt;/HTML&gt;

And methinks that the error lies in the fact that there is no cgi-bin/formmail folder. However what I do want to know is that is such a folder did exist, what file and file type, and what code should be in it.

SantaHoe · 07-10-2000 3:06pm

Send a mail to your host and ask where the formmail cgi is located, unless you have your own.
You could also replace
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/formmail">
With
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:bazzak14@yahoo.com">
It's a bit dod*** though, because that'll use the clients own email proggie to send as opposed to the server sending it.
Or you could get/make a cgi proggie to save the submissions to a file in your web folders.

....but don't we all know the feeling of driving to town and suddenly realizing you still have your barn boots on....or reaching over to pick up carrots at the store and having alfalfa fall out of your hair.....

Enygma · 08-10-2000 1:17am

Yeah the above will work, but it'll put pluses instead of spaces and %40's and all that URL encoding crap.

If you've got CGI then try this

#!/usr/bin/perl -w    
# path to perl ^^^^^

use CGI qw/:all/;

$cgi = CGI-&gt;new();


$recipient = $cgi-&gt;param('recipient');
$subject = $cgi-&gt;param('subject');
$redirect = $cgi-&gt;param('redirect');
$name = $cgi-&gt;param('nom');
$studID = $cgi-&gt;param('StudID');
$address = $cgi-&gt;param('Address');
$email = $cgi-&gt;param('EmailAdd');
$subjects = $cgi-&gt;param('subjects');

open (MAIL, "| mail $recipient") or die $!;
print MAIL &lt;&lt;EMAIL

From: $name
To: $recipient
Subject: $subject


Student ID: $studID
Address: $address
Email: $email
Subjects: $subjects

EMAIL

print &lt;&lt;HTML;
&lt;HTML&gt;
      &lt;HEAD&gt;
      &lt;meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=$redirect"&gt;
      &lt;/HEAD&gt;
      &lt;BODY&gt;
      You really want to be &lt;a href="$redirect"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.
      &lt;/BODY&gt;
      &lt;/HTML&gt;

HTML

That should do it

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