JP Stones — Thu, 13 May 1999 02:51:00 +0000

As Patrick said, using two forms on one HTML document works fine, I have done it before.
JP

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Thu, 13 May 1999 02:38:00 +0000

flicki,
actually there's no problem with two forms on a HTML-page, just do it!!!
if your code looks like this:
<form action="blah blah" method="post">
...
</form>
<form action="another blah" method="post">
...
</form>
you won't have any problems, at least it worked perfect on my intranet.

cu
patrick

Flicki — Thu, 13 May 1999 01:14:00 +0000

If I'm understanding you correctly, you were able to use two form actions within one html document? If so, how did you do that? I've been looking for a javascript that would allow me to run two form actions (cgi's) to no avail.

Thanks,
Flicki

jksworks — Wed, 12 May 1999 02:01:00 +0000

Thanks to all of you for them help.

It uses a mailto: as the action for the form:
<FORM method="POST" action="mailto:you@you.com">

This is exactly what I was wanting.
Kimberly

John Pollock — Wed, 12 May 1999 00:26:00 +0000

If you're using a CGI script, the instructions for it should tell you how to define an email address for sending. I use FormMail from Matt's Script Archive at:
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/

You can also use an alternative way of sending the form if you want it to go to your email address. The catch is it only works with later browsers (3+ I believe).

It uses a mailto: as the action for the form:
<FORM method="POST" action="mailto:you@you.com">

The trick is explained in more detail at:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/forms.html

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jksworks — Tue, 11 May 1999 23:16:00 +0000

ok, but where do I put my email address so it will send to me? In the value and action spot...right?
Thanks

Tue, 11 May 1999 20:36:00 +0000

this will look like this in HTML:

<form action="/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi" name="form" method="post">
<input type.......blah blah

is your problem fixed???

jwhitener — Tue, 11 May 1999 20:26:00 +0000

It sounds like you need a submit line in your page somewhere. The following is from 'html for the world wide web' by Liz Castro.
'There are two ways to send info to the server, get or post. GET appends the name-value pairs to the end of the url. This info is then passed to the QUERY_STRING variable. The cgi script must then break down the QUERY_STRING enviroment variable to analyze the incoming data. The GET method does have size limits, its advantage, however, is that it can point to a cgi script. The POST method sends a data file with the name-value pairs to the servers standard input, together with the content-type and the Content Lenght in bytes. The cgi script then takes data from the standard input and analyzes it. The POST advantage is that their is no size limit.'

here is an example form script.

form method=POST action="locationofcgi"

your form

input type="submit" value="nameonbutton"

You might be having problems for two reasons. your form method doesn't match what your cgi script is expecting (either POST or GET), or you don't have a submit button set up at the end.

hope this helps
Jason