CGI form handler

[nomav6]

I looked up some free ones but they all have ads which is kinda expected lol, but I did find one free one from EZ Forms but they said it only works on a unix server and my server is win2000, anyone have some suggestions, also how hard is CGI to learn? I've done programing before and was thinking about just picking up CGI (probably PHP since I did study it a little) but I need to form to be up really quick so I don't want to risk putting up some faulty code just because I'm in a hurry.

 

[nomav6]

looks like I'll be doing this in Perl.

 

[ian]

I have used this perl script for forms before and it works fine.
http://www.bignosebird.com/carchive/bnbform.shtml
Says it Supports both Unix and Windows

 

[nomav6]

I cant seem to make it work

 

[nomav6]

everything seems to work fine, it takes me to the thank you screen, but I never get the email

 

[ian]

Did you edit the form to include the email address that you want the email sent to?
submit_to: The person to receive the e-mail. Example
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="submit_to"
VALUE="[email protected]">

 

[nomav6]

yep, I have no Ideal why its not working. I've checked everything

 

[[tab]]

Have you got the correct path to Sendmail?

 

[nomav6]

its on a win2000 server that doesn't have send mail, so I'm using
$SMTP_SERVER="localhost";
I think I've read somewhere that localhost doesn't always work for some reason, but this is the only way I know how to do it, so does anyone have tips on what I need to do?

 

[nomav6]

ok, well I decided to do some stuff in cold fussion, well everything works prefect, almost, I still dont get the EMAIL! lol.

 

[nomav6]

I told myself I wasn't going to leave my computer untill I got it working this time, well here I am a couple hours later and everything is working looks like its time to go out and have some drinks hehe.

 

[ian]

congrats on getting it to work.
I know how annoying it can be when scripts dont work.