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Basic GCI & Form Question

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ljjtek

ljjtek

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Feb 26, 2001
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I'm new at CGI and after researching what I can, I am incredibly confused. All I want is a simple form on my webpage, but I'm still confused as to what I need for this. Can someone let me know the list of things I need, for instance, 1)a form on my webpage, 2)a script that goes into my cgi-bin..... etc, etc. I know that the form on the webpage will have something like
<form action=&quot;cgi-bin/'name of script?'.cgi&quot; method=&quot;POST&quot;
name=&quot;'name of script?'&quot;>

Not sure what 'name of script' is supposed to be and if its the same thing as the .cgi thing. Basically, I'm just confused on what parts I need to have to make this work. I saw something about /usr/lib/sendmail and that confused me even more. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
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There's quite a few things to get your head around if your're totally new to cgi - I'd suggest a book, and a few web tutorials on it.

If you have OO programming experience try
HTH Paul


There's always another way
 
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see the faqs tab at the top of this forum and check out the faqs on the basics....

Good Luck

'hope this helps

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I responded to a part of this on another request &quot;to write txt files on the server&quot;. I copied the entire perl-cgi program on that question. Look it up. a few questions right after this one.

Here is a sample web html file that request a form to be filled out and then calls and passes the form input to the program on the server. They were used as a set in a web-perl coding class. As I said in the other posting, they have not gone through any complete testing but that some students have taken these two programs(perl & html) with slight modifications to set up an information/order system in it's simplest form(no pun intended). I try to code as simple as possible and document with good formating. It makes better class handouts. Since I program in about 10 different languages I try to not get fancy or tricky.

Here is the html file:

<HTML>
<HEAD> <TITLE>SAMPLE FORM TO INSERT AN INVENTORY RECORD</TITLE> </HEAD>
<BODY><H3><CENTER>
SAMPLE FORM TO INSERT AN INVENTORY RECORD
</H3></CENTER>

</h4>
<center>
<TABLE WIDTH=75 BORDER=13 BORDERCOLOR=DARK>
<TD>
<FORM METHOD=&quot;POST&quot; ACTION=&quot;../cgi-bin/CIM355_WRITE_FORM_DATA_TO_FILE.PL&quot;>
<CENTER>
<TABLE BORDER=1>
<INPUT TYPE=&quot;HIDDEN&quot; VALUE=&quot;RECORD_TYPE&quot;
NAME=&quot;REC_TYPE&quot; SIZE=&quot;11&quot; >
<TR> <TD>PART ID:</TD> <TD><INPUT TYPE=&quot;TEXT&quot; VALUE=&quot;ENTER PART ID&quot;
NAME=&quot;PART_ID&quot; SIZE=&quot;6&quot; MAXLENGTH=&quot;6&quot;> </TD>
<TR> <TD>PART DESC.:</TD> <TD><INPUT TYPE=&quot;TEXT&quot; VALUE=&quot;123 ANY STREET&quot;
NAME=&quot;PART_DESC&quot; SIZE=&quot;20&quot; MAXLENGTH=&quot;20&quot;></TD>
<TR> <TD>COST EACH:</TD> <TD><INPUT TYPE=&quot;TEXT&quot; VALUE=&quot;00.00&quot;
NAME=&quot;UNIT_COST&quot; SIZE=&quot;5&quot; MAXLENGTH=&quot;4&quot;> </TD>
<TR> <TD>SELL EACH:</TD> <TD><INPUT TYPE=&quot;TEXT&quot; VALUE=&quot;00.00&quot;
NAME=&quot;UNIT_SELL&quot; SIZE=&quot;5&quot; MAXLENGTH=&quot;4&quot;> </TD>
<TR> <TD>ON HAND:</TD> <TD><INPUT TYPE=&quot;TEXT&quot; VALUE=&quot;0000&quot;
NAME=&quot;ON_HAND&quot; SIZE=&quot;4&quot; MAXLENGTH=&quot;4&quot;> </TD>
<TR> <TD>ON ORDER:</TD> <TD><INPUT TYPE=&quot;TEXT&quot; VALUE=&quot;0000&quot;
NAME=&quot;ON_ORDER&quot; SIZE=&quot;4&quot; MAXLENGTH=&quot;4&quot;> </TD>
<TR> <TD>ORDER POINT:</TD> <TD><INPUT TYPE=&quot;TEXT&quot; VALUE=&quot;0000&quot;
NAME=&quot;ORDER_POINT&quot; SIZE=&quot;4&quot; MAXLENGTH=&quot;4&quot;> </TD>
</TABLE>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=&quot;SUBMIT&quot; VALUE=&quot;CLICK TO ENTER&quot;>
<INPUT TYPE=&quot;RESET&quot; VALUE=&quot;CLEAR FORM FOR RE-ENTRY&quot;>
</CENTER>
</FORM>
</td>
</table>
</center>
</BODY>
</HTML>
 
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