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  1. Nov 28th, 2001, 11:36 PM #1
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    This should be easy...

    Alright, I'm totally new to this... I'm a VB programmer, not a web designer =] Anyway, here's what I need; I will use www.abc123.com as my example site: Say you go to www.abc123.com and enter in some information. When you click a button it takes you to the address www.abc123.com?name?address?other_info which is the SAME address and site page but a different web address. When you arrive at this address it saves the text "name", "address", and "other_info" to a textfile on the server www.abc123.com. How can this be done? Http, java, cgi, other language (except PHP)... I really don't care. I just need it done. Thanks VERY much in advance. Later,

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  2. Nov 29th, 2001, 03:15 AM #2
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    Perl would do it and i think PHP would as well
    Ford? Theres an infinite number of monkeys outside that want to talk to you about a script of hamlet they've produced!
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  3. Nov 29th, 2001, 06:21 AM #3
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    How... I know nothing of these languages?
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  4. Nov 29th, 2001, 08:23 AM #4
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    How... I know nothing of these languages?
    Learn them?

    This is in the wrong forum. try the "XML, HTML, Javascript, Web and CGI" they do Perl & PHP.
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  6. Nov 29th, 2001, 10:17 AM #5
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    Ah come now, you cant expect to get something done for you now. If you need help troubleshooting some code, or some direction to some resources is one thing anything else is asking a bit much.

    I would use perl, maybe ASP's if you are win based for server.

    Here is some starters, when you pull up a web page that you enter or select choices from it is called a form, forms can include such things as text boxes, list boxes, radios, buttons, etc. To have something on the server take that information and do something with you will need server side scripting. Server side scriptings most popular choices currently are ASP's (mainly limited to Windows, I have gotten it to run on Linux but the journey was not to fun), Perl, PHP. As for PHP, I have not taken the time to learn it, so I have no clue. Perl or ASP's it would be cake and there is plenty of examples out there. If you want to learn Perl I suggest O'Rielly's book on Perl. ASP's I would just use mainly web sources plenty of them, perl has a bunch as well, I just like O'Rielly's book. There are some extra things you are going to have to worry about such as permissions to the web server etc. Oh almost forgot about Cold Fusion, but I doubt you want to use that since it costs some $$$. It is pretty nice to use, but is similiar to ASP's in most respects.
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  7. Nov 29th, 2001, 04:22 PM #6
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    If you are clueless and just want to get data sent to you via a web form, I'd go to http://worldwidemart.com (Matt's Script Archive) and download formmail.pl which is a general purpose data gathering script written in Perl. It's probably one of the most popular ways on the internet to gather information from a form. The result get's emailed to whatever email address you want. In order to use this your web server must have some sort of email capability, but that should pretty well be explained in the docs.

    Otherwise, jsp is also an excellent candidate for doing what you want. AND jsp is Java related!

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