[dev] Ulaform: HTML form generation with PHP

[Keith A. Chayer]

Quoting "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@horde.org>:

> I think I have the beginnings of a new Horde module here.  :-)
> 
> Our webmaster is getting a growing number of requests for HTML forms for
> feedback and the like.  The requests come from departments that don't have
> CGI script writers, and our webmaster doesn't have time to keep up with
> writing these.  We've explored FrontPage (and the server extensions, which
> can do form generation), but there are... "issues", and I would rather not
> go that route.

While I'm sure the program you're working on will eventually be quite 
fully-featured, I solved this problem for the few webmasters around here with a 
simple solution.  I have a generic perl cgi script that steps through all of the 
data entered and spits it to sendmail, in alphabetical order.  That's probably a 
no-brainer to anyone that wants to do this; where I made it somewhat 
configurable is that it checks for a hidden form variable field (well, it 
doesn't have to be hidden, but you don't want the user to input a destination 
email address for the script :) ) that includes the destination email address.  
So two departments can have form pages, each with a different hidden destination 
address, the same script parses the input from both of them, and the data 
arrives in the correct mailbox.  Of course, this makes for pretty generic form 
email when someone gets the end results.  It ends up being a simple list of data 
fields and their values.

..Keith

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Keith A. Chayer                                         Baptist Bible College
Network Technician                                         Springfield, MO
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