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Posted by Sens Fan Happy In OH on February 10, 2005, 7:49 am
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Tried to post this yesterday but it appears that my news server at work
decided not to send it through for whatever reason. So I'll try from
Google. So I apologize if this becomes a re-post:
I've created a form for mailing back (via e-mail) to my company but
can't figure out what CGI codes are needed to make it do this. The
last time I created a form similar to this for another company I worked
for, the web hosting company did all this work after I'd created the
form.
The form is located at http://www.gingerinc.com/form.htm
I need to form to do three things:
(1) Be sure that person has marked all the * fields and return them
back to the form again (still filled out) until the missing area is
completed.
(2) When the person hits [SEND] after the form is complete and all
fields are marked, it needs to e-mail itself as an e-mail to our
company's address as a letter, not an attachment.
(3) When sender inputs his/her e-mail address into the field marked
[e-mail] this needs to become the "Reply To" address when opening the
e-mail letter using any e-mail client (Outlook, Outlook Express,
Thunderbird, etc.) as many different people have access to this account
at work and whomever downloads and opens it will have to reply to them.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated! I tried to contact the web
hosting company but they're about brainless and only know partially
what to do inside of FrontPage 2K, their recommended HTML program. So
yes, I am forced to use FrontPage 2K :(
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Posted by David Dorward on February 10, 2005, 7:39 pm
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Sens Fan Happy In OH wrote:
> I've created a form for mailing back (via e-mail) to my company but
> can't figure out what CGI codes are needed to make it do this.
The authoring of CGI scripts (except for what they output) is rather outside
the scope of this newsgroup. The specifics also depend a great deal on your
hosting company.
> Any and all help is greatly appreciated! I tried to contact the web
> hosting company but they're about brainless and only know partially
> what to do inside of FrontPage 2K, their recommended HTML program. So
> yes, I am forced to use FrontPage 2K :(
I'd consider this grounds for immediate transfer to a hosting company with a
clue.
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Posted by Sens Fan Happy In Ohio on February 12, 2005, 5:44 pm
Please log in for more thread options was small, so next used sidewalk chalk, but the rain washed it away, and
then switched to spray paint and stencils but the cans exploded, so placed
fingers to keyboard for this:
>
> The authoring of CGI scripts (except for what they output) is rather
> outside the scope of this newsgroup. The specifics also depend a
> great deal on your hosting company.
>
Okay, I guess I can understand that point. I was under the assumption,
based on the web hosting company, that this was a simple process in FP2K
since they were making me do it rather than actually doing it themselves.
But like I said, the web hosting company I worked with previously did this
so I assumed it was their responsibility. So is this basically what you're
saying is that (1) It's not HTML but CGI and ... (2) CGI is the
responsibility of the web hosting company since they know what their system
can and cannot do?
I'm really in deep here and need soild advice where to turn. My company is
expecting this to work in a few weeks when I finish the last pages up in
between my other duties and CGI is way above and beyond what I know. As it
is I am struggling just to do the website. They "assume" that a graphic
designer can do this sort of thing as well ~shrugs~
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Posted by David Dorward on February 13, 2005, 10:21 am
Please log in for more thread options Sens Fan Happy In Ohio wrote:
>>
>> The authoring of CGI scripts (except for what they output) is rather
>> outside the scope of this newsgroup. The specifics also depend a
>> great deal on your hosting company.
> Okay, I guess I can understand that point. I was under the assumption,
> based on the web hosting company, that this was a simple process in FP2K
> since they were making me do it rather than actually doing it themselves.
> But like I said, the web hosting company I worked with previously did this
> so I assumed it was their responsibility. So is this basically what
> you're saying is that (1) It's not HTML but CGI and ...
I discussed CGI because you brought it up. You need some sort of CGI process
running on the server to handle it. This might be CGI, it might be
mod_perl, PHP, ASP, JSP and so on. It might even be FrontPage Extensions.
> (2) CGI is the responsibility of the web hosting company since they know
> what their system can and cannot do?
It isn't up to them to install scripts for you, although many hosting
companies have a bundle of preinstalled scripts for their customers' use.
They should, however, tell you what services they provide and the basics of
how to use them. If CGI is supported this will typically be a minimum of
where scripts should live, what the path to perl is, what the paths to any
other interpretors (such as python) you might use are, and the path to
sendmail.
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Posted by kaeli on February 11, 2005, 8:20 am
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> I've created a form for mailing back (via e-mail) to my company but
> can't figure out what CGI codes are needed to make it do this.
Does the host support PHP?
I've already got a PHP script that does something very similar to this.
>
> Any and all help is greatly appreciated! I tried to contact the web
> hosting company but they're about brainless and only know partially
> what to do inside of FrontPage 2K, their recommended HTML program. So
> yes, I am forced to use FrontPage 2K :(
You should really switch hosts.
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are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are God.
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