thanks

SWD — Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:53:48 +0000

hey thanks for your help!

NSS — Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:22:42 +0000

Hi SWD,
In normal cases,

1)If you want to receive the info, in your Form Tag, add:
to your Form.

2)If you want to redirect someone to another page of your site, after filling in the above details use:

in your Form

3)If you want them to fill in the required box for certain requirements use:
in your Form.

4)If you want the form to point to the cgi/perl script on your server use:

in you Form

5)After someone has filled in the info, that person will have to click "submit" and the Form will be processed by your script on the server. Use the following in your Form:

Use of Form Tag to get info from someone is quite simple to implement for your html page and designing the format/layout is up to you.

I am not sure about form.cgi whether they have "redirect" options as it's a very useful feature. Anyway I am using Formmail from "Matt's Script" which can be obtained at:
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/

Below is a basic example that you can use to get info from someone and send it all to you(recipient)

Name

Company

Address

State

Zipcode

Country

Tel: No.

Optional:
Fax No.

E-mail

Any other comments:

Please note that if this is your first time using cgi/perl scripts which is "server-side" then the script need to be uploaded to your server in ascii mode(FTP) and most of the time the script needs to be edited for:

(i)Path to Perl.
(ii)File(s) and cgi-bin folder have to be chmod 755 for Unix/Linux server before the scrpt can work.
(iii)Others such as whether the script can be run outside the cgi-bin directory as some servers allow that although it's a security risk.
(iv)Script privilege, to prevent others using your script at your bandwidth expense.

Hope this helps and good luck.