CGI Script Form Handler

[CrashNet]

Does anyone know of a CGI Script Form Handler that also handles attachments? I particularily looking for one that takes all of the information and saves it on my server, but one that emails the forum results to you will be fine too.

Thanks!

 

[wdwmagic]

Uploading files from a form will require server side capabilities and specific permissions. Do you have direct control over your server space?

Is it Unix or Windows?

 

[CrashNet]

Originally posted by wdwmagic
Uploading files from a form will require server side capabilities and specific permissions. Do you have direct control over your server space?

Is it Unix or Windows?

The server, as far as I know, is Unix. I have an account on it with direct access to it via CuteFTP. I have unlimited space and bandwidth and cgi and php are allowed. The only thing I can't do is php scripts that require MySQL. Basically I'm looking for just something simple that will handle a form with a few fields and one attachment. Uploading to the server isn't necessary, because I originally planned on using email. Any ideas? Thanks Steve!

Oh yeah, its basically like attachments on a forum. I would want gif and jpg compatability.

On a side note, how large are png files in comparison to gif and jpeg? Thanks again!

 

[MobileBadBoy]

PHP mail forms do not require MySQL (unless it is web-based email, like Hotmail). MySQL is a database, which is for storing information, like this message board does (all the names, posts, topic names, etc are in a database).

If I wasn't so busy, I could throw a PHP script together, but you might try browsing here, for starters. Maybe someone here knows a direct script.

(PHP) http://php.resourceindex.com
(CGI/Perl) http://cgi.resourceindex.com
(MISC.) http://www.hotscripts.com

Those are all complete scripts sites. Anywhere else I know of would be more of a teaching site, and it sounds like you're just looking for a premade script.

The PNG/GIF/JPG question is hard answered one, because all can be saved in varying degrees. If you'd really like to learn about it, I'd try a Google search in all seriousness. For web, I'd stick with jpg or gif, since png is not completely supported yet. For attachments, most mail servers allow about 1 MB for an attachment, and most people save PNG files out really large. Although I've seen PNG's smaller than JPG's.

 

[CrashNet]

Thanks for the help MobileBadBoy. Sorry about the MySQL thing :lol:. I started describing what I could and could not do on the host and got carried away. I have a forum I'm working on at a different host.

The png files are fairly new to me. I noticed that Steve lets us attach png files to our posts, so I figured I'd ask. Thanks for the help! I think I will just stick with gif and jpg files. Thanks again and I will let you know if I find something at those sites!

 

[CrashNet]

Suprise Suprise!!!! After looking forever, I find out that I can actually use a script provided by my host for my forum! :lol:

Boy am I dumb for not looking first.:brick:

I have a new question though: Does anyone know a way to include a form text field with a value that cannot be changed? An example:

<"INPUT TYPE="text" MAXLENGTH="35" SIZE="37" NAME="FROM" VALUE="CACashon@aol.com">

I do not want my visitors to have to put in an email address, but the script MUST have one in order for the form to work properly. I want to use the value I have above but make it so the input field cannot be changed. Can anyone help? Thanks!

EDIT:I had to put the QUOTE mark at the beginning or the actual code would not show up.

EDIT: I would still like an answer to this question, but I just realized I can just make a hidden input field to put the email address in. Thanks in advance for the answer!