Re: The Return of the Form Question

Shawn,

http://web.uvic.ca/comped/online/htmlff/

How is that for a hint? :-) It is the "official instruction" regarding the
use of Formail.

Before I go . . . 

You said: ">Please refrain from design comments at this point as I will
>worry about that once I get it in proper working order."

Ok, I won't comment on the design. *But* you need to understand that until
you fix the HTML in that document it CAN NOT be depended on to be "in
proper working order" - period.

That's all I'm going to say on this as  I REALLY am not trying to start an
argument, or discuss theory, I'm trying to help - quickly - as you requested.

On a like note, this info may be a help may not be . . .

I currently have several forms published doing _exactly_ what you are
needing (formatting of the result to allow DIRECT import into a database),
but I use a *NIX based program called "cgiemail". More info on that
application can be found at:

http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail/

HTH,
Fuzzy




At 03:45 PM 9/26/00 -0600, Shawn Sass wrote:
>Hi, me again.  I'm really stuck on this and I just need a
>hint of where to
>go to find the info I need.
>I'm working on a form for a website in which I need the data
>from the form
>returned to me in an email attachment as comma-delimited
>text, or stored
>on the server that way. ie
>"FIRST-NAME","LAST-NAME","ADDRESS","PHONE-NUMBER".
>Does anyone know of a premade CGI script that would do
>this or something close to this? All I've been able to find
>are scripts
>that return me this nicely formatted copy in the body of an
>email with
>the name of the form field in front of the entered data.
>This format
>makes it really hard to get that text into an access
>database.  It
>has to be manually cut and then pasted into the database
>fields.
>The account execs don't want to do that so I'm stuck.  Any
>info you
>can offer me would be greatly appreciated. Oh yeah, here's
>the URL
>to the online form I'm speaking of incase you want to see
>what I'm working
>with: http://www.sportsstuff.com/Pages/warranty.html
>Please refrain from design comments at this point as I will
>worry about that once I get it in proper working order.
>
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