CGI script nightmare!

[tidydougal]

could some body explain to me IN ENGLISH! how to connect a cgi script to a dreamweaver form and how to get it workin, because its driving me nuts as im in a bit of a rut with it at the moment?

[gbaker123]

If you can sticky me with the specific details, I'd love to. Basically all you should have to do is put it in the action tag of your form, in a link or an Include statement.

George

[ddesign]

Tidydougal,

Did you ever find out how to do this? This problem is the reason I logged on to WW tonight. I know this is simple, but I MUST be doing something wrong as I can NOT get my mailto form to work! Please sticky or post if you got help with it? Thank you!

[Avitar]

Well you just call up your dreamweaver file like normal, and in the form tag put:

<FORM ACTION="http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/scriptname.cgi" METHOD="POST">

Any variables you wish to pass that will be inputed by the user on that page should be HTML elements that have a valid NAME property. Additionally or alternativly you can hardcode variables in the Action line ie.

ACTION="http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/scriptname.cgi?var1=dog&var2=cat&var=butter&var4=David%20Smith"

Note:
- format for varibles is variablename=value
- the seperator for the first variable is a? sign
- the seperator other variables is a & sign
- Spaces are represented by %20 (sometime the + sign on some systems)
- Non-alpha-numeric characters like!@#$%^&*()_+=,./<>?[ have special representations like the space character

In addition you can use METHOD="GET" which is more freindly but less secure (helps DEBUG).

This site may help
[ist.uwaterloo.ca...]

it might help to learn a bit of perl/cgi as well

Good Luck

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David Smith

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 5:57 am (utc) on Dec. 31, 2003]
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