Re: "Forms" HELL!!!

Your first problem is due to using the "mailto:" hack as a form action.
This is highly browser dependant.  If the user's  system can't handle
it, your form doesn't work.  To add interactive elements to your site, I
would suggest to study various forms of CGI programming.  More
information can be found at Webmonkey.com, and Perl.com.  There are also
many free, pre-written scripts on the Web that you can obtain...just
configure and install them, and you're up and running.

The big advantage of CGI is that it is server-based, so you have more
control over the functionality.

I didn't see any JavaScript at the second URL...

Darrell

----- Original Message -----
From: <WSherratt(at)aol.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 9:23 PM
Subject: "Forms" HELL!!!


> Heya gang,
>
> can anyone point me to a resource on the web devoted to the coding of
forms
> etc. or even advise me themselves if they get time?
>
> Man, I was trying to put up a form for a greeting card designer
> http://www.spi-web.co.uk/pipsqueek/order.htm
> for some reason, the form doesn't email to the recipient!!
>
> I then tried to mess about with the form so that javascripts could do
> addition simply
> http://www.spi-web.co.uk/order-main.htm
> but not only will that not post to anyone, it seems to add stuff up
wrongly.
>
> Any help/directions are most appreciated.
>
> Mr.Will
>

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