forms

[Brad Marsh]

Bruce,

It worked for me. I've been doing quite a bit of development lately (using
both Frontier's ODB and MySQL via ODBC) using POST and GET values.

Email me off-list if you'd like...

Brad Marsh, Computer Specialist
Center for Evaluation and Research, LLC
http://www.CERonline.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Cornett" <bcornett at servlet.com>
To: <Frontier-Users at userland.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: forms


> 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
> >
>
>