red_ghost — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:16:36 +0000

You've created the basic form for the user interaction, now you need to use a programming lanuguage to perform the action of storing and sending. Where are you storing all of the user's files?

ShaneS — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:15:41 +0000

Carefull Suzanne,

Seeing is he is a rookie to this, adn Im not sure which language your referencing, but $State and $Zip will only work if certain php.ini settings are enabled, beive it is registared_globals. Otherwise the would be from $_GET['fieldname'] or $_POST['fieldname'] depending on the form method used, and "POST" is recommened and needed for files.

For CGI using Perl, forms are parsed with STDIN statement that uses perls standard input to process the forms (this could be wrong, as I have not touched perl since I learned PHP)

As for ASP, I am not sure, I should be since I learned VB and have a degree with it as my primary language, but this Windows baby grew up on Linux on the Internet, so I actually suck with Windows stuff on the net. You will have to research or get someone to help with the ASP.

There there are the OTHER options...JSP, CFM, Java....

Suzanne — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 21:43:53 +0000

Well, .txt isn't an executable file... That's going to be the biggest problem.

Variables are the same as the name for the field. So you would have varables like: $State and $Zip.

What are you doing with them? They need to be "handled" by the script. This script needs to be in Perl if you're using the Cgi-Bin (well, not necessarily, but assume it does), and can also be in PHP, ASP, Java or ColdFusion.

What programming languages do you have available on your server?

No variable substitutions in template.

dplgnr — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 20:02:58 +0000

I have tried Suzanne's tip.
I think I may be close but....
I get this message when I tested it.

No email was sent due to an error.
200 No variable substitutions in template.

Not sure what is going wrong.

Here is what I have so far:

Untitled Document

Name:

Title:

Office#:

Direct#:

Cell#:

Fax#:

Address:

City:

State:

Zip:

Email Address:

Quantity Ordered:

Re: FormMailX

dplgnr — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:40:52 +0000

Thank you HostingDiva
I like what I saw. will give it a try.

Suzanne — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:24:22 +0000

with file uploads (search hotscripts.com for any number of available ones), essentially you use this:

and make sure your tag has the right attributes in it:

That will get the information from the user and give it to your script. From there, you need to store it, process it, list it in a database, whatever you want to do.

FormMailX

HostingDiva — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:12:41 +0000

I use a script called formmailX to do this. I found it online for free, but when I looked for a link to send you I had no luck finding it again.

I did come across this, maybe it will help: http://obiewebsite.sourceforge.net/o.php?Form_to_email_with_attachment

Angela