html form

mrb009 · Mar 25, 2004

I have this html form I am working on, and the form is good except when you submit the form it sends it to my email, which I don't want. Does anyone know how to send the data from the form to a data file like notepad or word? Thanks

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body><form action="mailto:gberning@nk.k12.oh.us" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<p align="center"><font size="6" face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Courier New">Tech Repair Form</font></p>
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="4" WIDTH="90%">
<TR>
<TD width="30%"><DIV align="right">
<B>Name:</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD width="70%">
<INPUT type="text" name="name" size="30">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><DIV align="right">
<p><B>Date:</B></p>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
<INPUT type="text" name="Date" size="10">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><div align="right">
<p><strong>Type of Problem:</strong></p>
</div></TD>
<TD>
<div align="left">
<INPUT type="text" name="Type of Problem" size="20">
(Example: Computer, Printer, etc...) </div></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><DIV align="right">
<B>Description of Problem:</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD><TEXTAREA name="Description of Problem" cols="60" wrap="virtual" rows="4">
</TEXTAREA>
</TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD> </TD>
<TD>
<INPUT type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
<INPUT type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>

</DIV>
<BR>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

</body>
</html>

YNOTU · Mar 25, 2004

Look into FileSystem Object to write files to folders. But, let me ask. What's the purpose of your form.

Are you trying to have uses access this form and you wanting to save these data?

mrb009 · Mar 25, 2004

I want to post this form on our website so my users can get to it and submit a problem and then I would like to have some access to the data so I can look over the data. Thanks

manarth · Mar 25, 2004

it depends entirely on what technology you want to parse the form - php / asp / jsp / cfm / perl.
Change the form statement: e.g.[tt]
<form action="log-problem.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
[/tt]or[tt]
<form action="/cgi-bin/log-problem.cgi" method="post" enctype="text/plain">[/tt]

You then to need to write code which parses the post-data and saves it to a database / appends it to a log file / other action. You could also script an email notification, which emails you when someone's completed the form. There is a pre-written perl script which does this trick: FormMail.pl.

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tnsbuff · Mar 25, 2004

mrb009,

If you don't do programming yourself, you'll need a script that will take the form submission and save the results to a text file. This involves installing and modifying some variables in the script as well as the form. Here a few form processing scripts that also have the functionality of saving the data to a text file.

http://www.ezscripting.co.uk/csvwrite/

http://www.downtoearthscripts.com/webformpro.html

http://www.perlservices.net/en/programs/allform_pro/index.shtml

YNOTU · Mar 25, 2004

This article should give you a better understanding how HTML forms with server-side scripting work.

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