forms

[Bruce Cornett]

List Folks

Well, it looks like there is no such thing readily available in 
Manila/Frontier 9.  Or if it is, I am unable to find it.

There is interesting behavior if you simply create the form in a Manila 
"story."  The form acts like it will work - and in fact it does POST and 
call the script running on another server.  But it does not pass the form 
values with it (at least it did not do so calling a perl script on a Apache 
server for me).  The page also hides the <Form> tag so that it is not 
available anymore for editing.   I presume it is in the table.

I found some old references (98-99 version 4.x) to using XML to replace 
perl, etc. And some references to third party plugins, along with  some 
references that seem to apply to older versions and not Version 9.

I presume the absence of comments means there is no answer to this - or 
folks think I am out of line for bringing it up.

Regards

Bruce C


At 06:23 PM 11/19/2002, you wrote:
>List folks,
>
>re: a simple form to email sign up data back to me.
>
>I found this reference - 
>http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$81?mode=topic
>
>But it does not seem to work out for me in Version 9.  Perhaps it is my 
>lack of experience or maybe things have changed.  Certainly some of the 
>instructions don't appear to be applicable - i.e. they refer to objects 
>that don't exist.
>
>I wonder if it is possible to simply point the form action to a perl 
>script on one of my other servers?
>
>Though I still have not yet figured how to build up a standard frontier 
>page and incorporate it into the Manila context, I assume this must be 
>possible.
>
>Or is it?  It is not apparent to me looking at the structure of the table, 
>manilaWevbsites.root
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Bruce C
>