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Hi, anybody know where to get a good cgi to tidy up form entries from?
Thanks,
Dano.

Ok, thanks for the input guys if I need any more help I'll get back to you(I'll try to be a little clearer as well)
Dano.

I could whip up a quick one in PHP later if you want it :o).

If you're using a script on the server to use the server's mail subsystem to send you the email you could implement it in perl, or even PHP (which isn't CGI, but could be a bit simpler).

Perl is fairly easy to tweak into doing what you want. Have a look at

http://www.perlfect.com/articles/sendmail.shtml

.. for a good example of how to use sendmail on the server.

Basically, that script gets called when the user fills in the details on your form and hits submit. It can pick out what the user has filled in with "$query->param('foo')" and opens a pipe to the sendmail program with 'open(SENDMAIL, "|$sendmail")', sending arguments like the subject and return addresses as plain text.

The most common issue with these kinds of scripts is the location of the sendmail binary.. anyone know where it is on the freeola servers?

Anyway, back to your question.. if you're just emailing stuff to yourself, set something like $to = "[email protected]"; (where lewq@ntlworld is your email address, of course..). From there you can format your content nicely.

Assuming that the point of the form is to find out what someone's favourite game is (lame, I know.. I just pulled it out of the air..), and that the form has text boxes named the following..

-> their_email
-> their_name
-> favourite_game

Try something like this..

$content = "Hi me,\n".$query->param('their_name')."'s favourite game is ".$query->param('favourite_game').".\n\nTheir email address is ".$query->param('their_email').".\nHave fun.";

If that went over your head, you probably don't need to know. Just try copying and pasting, and if that doesn't work, there are a thousand people out there who could explain it better than I can :)

Someone fills in a form???
The results are sent to you in an E-mail???
You want the E-mail to be easy to read???

Is that what your after???

AH! if so e-mail me [email protected] i've got the required files.

Are you talking about the user filling out some questions on a form...etc and then 'sending' it to you?

OK, so I'm lazy, what I mean is that I want to use a cgi script to sort a feedback form into a readable message before it gets mailed to me but I have very little knowledge in that area. I am using special reserve space so I have the info on the paths etc but I still need a script.
Dano.

get a cgi? don't you get them with the domain?

Hi, anybody know where to get a good cgi to tidy up form entries from?
Thanks,
Dano.