Re: Form - response required?

Fuzzy,

I'm looking at cgiemail now, but most of the servers I've used come with 
Matt's Form Mail already installed so I use its hidden field to check for 
required items.

If you're familiar with Form Mail, what would cgiemail's advantages be as 
opposed to Form Mail?

Just curious.

Thanks!
Tamara


At 03:34 PM 8/17/00 -0400, Captain F.M. O'Lary wrote:
>I'm sorry, but I have to stick my nose in here.
>
>!?! And what about the smart folks that cruise with Java off ?!?!
>
>Why are we throwing Java script at something that can be easily done
>without a platform/browser/language specific solution?
>
>I'm confused.
>
>cgiemail
>
>It requires _no_ JavaScript. It doesn't give a hoot whether your e-mail
>client is configured or not. It works well back into the 2.X browser
>versions. Oh, and did I mention it's free, and will send a copy of the form
>contents to multiple recipients simultaneously if you wish?
>
>Server admins love it because it's easy to setup, has ridiculously low
>resource overhead, and runs and runs with no continuing attention from them.
>
>If this all comes as news to you, may I respectfully suggest some reading?
>
>http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail/
>
>I have been using this for ~years~ and it's both amazingly simple to
>incorporate in a page and powerful. With a little imagination it's just
>incredible what you can do with this little gizmo.
>
>Of course, it has a downside. To get it up and running initially, your web
>server administrator has to know a thing or two about his (or HER) machines.
>
>HTH,
>Fuzzy
>
>
>At 06:37 PM 8/17/00 +0100, Brian Sloan wrote:
> >Maybe you've already received a reply about this, but you need to put this
> >in your form tag:
> >
> ><FORM NAME="myform" onsubmit="check()">
> >
> >and then this script somewhere in your document.
> >
> ><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> >function check()
> >{
> >if(document.myform.name.value == " ")
> >{
> >alert("Please enter your name")
> >return false
> >}
> >else
> >{
> >document.myform.submit()
> >}
> >}
> ></SCRIPT
> >
> >You need to add an if statement, before else, similar to the one above, for
> >each form field. For example:
> >if(document.myform.email value == " ")
> >
> >etc.
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Brian Sloan
>__________________________________________________________________
>Captain F.M. O'Lary
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