RE: Re[2]: Form Field Names

Geez

You should get access to a server-side language (like PHP or ASP) for
sending emails :) It would solve all your problems. You could call the
field whatever you wanted in the form but in the page that processes it
you could display it as an entire sentence or whatever. Possibly CGI
scripts can do the same (if no server-side languages are available), but
I don't work with them so someone else can answer this. You might like
to note that there are sites out there that will host server-side
language based web-sites for free (with some limitations of course) so
you may want to find one just for this part.

Later,
Mr Brett
 
"That's a pain that will surely linger, and that's no lie"
- Ed Grimely

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of Gary Krockover
Sent: Saturday, 18 May 2002 7:10 AM
To: Nathan Lyle; HWG Techniques Email List
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Form Field Names

I wonder what passes if you code it as:

"Which%20side%20of%20the%20earth%20is%20the%20moon%20on%20right%20now?"

GK


> > As two examples.  Personally, I think you should name them
> > however you want... whatever will help you remember them
> >  the easiest.
> 
> There's one page I'm working on where it would be nice to include an
> entire sentence as the field name, so that when the person gets the
> form info by email, the answer that's entered makes sense with the
> question without having to look up and match numbers.
> 
> I guess my main question is whether or not a short sentence is
> allright as a field name.
> 
> Example: "Which side of the earth is the moon on right now?"
> 
> > Javascript and most other scripting languages would have a heart
> > attack if you tried referencing an object that started with a
number,
> > whether or not it's valid HTML or not.
> 
> I thought I remembered Javascript having issues with spaces in a name,
> too.
> 
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