Creating Forms on non-windows server

D

DioSec

Our organization may possibly be moving our site to a web host that DOES NOT
have a server with FrontPage extensions installed. (It is not a Windows
Server). This, of course, will exclude our ability to use the Forms feature
which we use a lot. They explain that these forms would now have to be
created in CGI or Coldfusion in order to work with their servers. Coldfusion
appears to be a formidible and difficult solution. Is CGI a more workable
and feasible solution for this task? Is this feature available in current
editions of FrontPage? Can the forms be created as usual in FrontPage and
then somehow converted to CGI before publishing. Is there a different
solution I could be looking at? FYI - I am using FrontPage 2000. Would a
newer version of FrontPage make this task easier?
 
J

JDR

You can still develop your forms in FrontPage, but you will need to process
them with a perl script, php or any other method your new host provides.

Cold Fusion is probably over-kill unless you are planning on posting all
forms to a database.

Many hosts will provide a form handler or you can find a variety of perl
scripts that you can upload to a cgi directory.

You can view more info about cgi here: http://www.w3.org/CGI/
 
S

Steve Easton

If you must move, look for a different Non Windows hosting company that
supports extensions.
There are many

www.123ehost.com is one


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D

DioSec

Unfortunately, my options are somewhat limited. The CFO wants to use the
server being offered by one of the parent organizations because of the cost
savings. If I had my druthers, I would go to a server that supports FP
extensions.
 
S

Steve Easton

Don't you just love it when people who have no clue as to the IT world,
make IT decisions.

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C

Cheryl D Wise

Also check and see if your server supports PHP, most non-windows servers do.
If not ColdFusion has mail handling classes that are easy to use which is
probably our best bet. This is your basic ColdFusion email processing script
you can use with forms created in FrontPage as long as the field names are
the same:

<cfmail
from= #form.EMAILFIELDNAME#
to="[email protected]"
subject="EMAIL SUBJECT TITLE GOES HERE"
server="63.119.175.39">

Company : #form.Company#
First Name : #form.FirstName#
Last Name : #form.LastName#
Address 1 : #form.Address1#
Address 2 : #form.Address2#
City : #form.City#
Province/State : #form.Province#
Postal Code/Zip : #form.PostalCode#
Country : #form.Country#
Telephone : #form.Telephone#
Email : #form.email#

</cfmail>
<cflocation url="YOUR CONFIRMATION PAGE URL ADDRESS">

See http://www.tnsites.com/support/s_cfemailscript.asp for the tutorial that
goes with it. You host should supply the server address

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