Publishing forms in MS FrontPage

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 9:07 pm (10 years, 11 months ago)

I've been so lucky here that I'm gonna try a jab at another question.

I realise that most probably most if not all regulars here (except me perhaps) do their coding by hand. I on the other hand use FrontPage 2000.

I've never had any requirements for forms but I am now in dire need of setting one up. I'm using FP simply because I'm not really a coder and count on the assistance of others.

GET to the question you say.

Must I use FP to publish the form? I've ftp'd the form but it won't work. Any ideas anyone? I'm hosted at CW and the extensions are enabled.

Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 12:25 am (10 years, 11 months ago)

The form thing is a frontpage extension so it has to be published by http to do all the jiggery pokery it does...

Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 12:54 am (10 years, 11 months ago)

There must be a way of writing a form (for a non-coder) without using FP. I'm getting pretty t-off at this thing.

(note to Ben - pretty active LFC forum you got there - and thanks for remembering the Liverpool - Juve disaster).

Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 11:45 am (10 years, 11 months ago)

You could always try a formmail script... http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

Not as easy as using the frontpage one but it is fairly easy....

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 991

Ben wrote:

You could always try a formmail script... http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

Not as easy as using the frontpage one but it is fairly easy....

Yep, thats what I use.

Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 6:33 pm (10 years, 11 months ago)

Ben/Justin

OK Gents, I'm listening to you and I'm taking a chance without really knowing what I'm doing.

Since I'm hosted at CW what would the following look like for me?

$mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -t';

Do I change the following
@referers = ('scriptarchive.com','209.196.21.3');

to (do I need a IP address):
@referers = ('mydomain.com','209.196.21.3');

Do I change the following
@recipients = &fill_recipients(@referers);

to:
@recipients = &fill_recipients(@mydomain.codm);

What does this mean?

# ACCESS CONTROL FIX: Peter D. Thompson Yezek #
# @valid_ENV allows the sysadmin to define what environment variables can #
# be reported via the env_report directive. This was implemented to fix #
# the problem reported at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1187 #

@valid_ENV = ('REMOTE_HOST','REMOTE_ADDR','REMOTE_USER','HTTP_USER_AGENT');

Finally, once I upload the script to the cgi bin do I chmod the file or something?

Thanks

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2002 3:59 pm (10 years, 11 months ago)

Soz for taking so long to reply...

Have you had a look at http://www.scriptarchive.com/download.cgi?s=formmail&c=txt&f=README that should tell you everything you need to know.

If your still unsure about anything post back Smile

Oh moving to the perl forum now as its more suited to there