Formmail Auto Install - CGI Central

: Formmail

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The Form Mail script serves as an HTML form -> Email and/or form -> datafile script which lets you define how you want the output to appear via a text file. The text file is layed out where form fields from the HTML page are placed in the text file where the field name is located between square brackets ([]). This package is a highly customized version for Speedsoft of Matt's Script Archive FormMail.pl.

There are four files included in the Formmail package. Below is a brief summary of them:

formmail.pl - The Perl script which does the processing.
formmail.html - A sample HTML Formmail Page.
example.txt - A sample formmail "textform" file.
formmail.txt - Detailed instructions on using formmail.pl.

Auto Installation

Make sure you are on the same server as your web site:

User Info

Enter your username and password (same as your FTP and email)

Username:
Password:

Virtual Hosting Accounts

Virtual Hosting accounts, enter your domain name here in the form "yourdomain.com".
Domain Name:

Install Location

Enter the directories for installing the scripts and the html pages. Defaults are in your cgi-bin directory for the scripts and your home directory for the HTML pages. If you don't know what to enter here, leave them blank.

Script Directory:
cgi-bin//formmail.pl

HTML Directory:
your_root//formmail.html

Formmail Options

Please read the Help file before filling in any of these options. You must fill out one or more of the following options.

How do you want your data sent or stored? (choose one or both)

1. Send the form information to me via email:

Enter your email address:

2. Store the data on the server (enter one or none):

A. In one data file:

Data file name: (i.e. mydata.dat)

B. In separate data files, one for each submission:

Subdirectory name to store files in: (i.e. data)

What happens after the form is submitted? (enter one of the three)

1. A thank you page is displayed showing what was emailed.

(default)

2. The browser is "redirected" to a page I have created.

HTML page full URL: (i.e. http://www.widget.com/return.html)

3. The browser displays a page I have created, replacing keywords in brackets [] with entries from the form submission.

HTML page filename: (i.e. return.html)