OT: How to get form input results written to a file?

[Stephen]

There is a web application designed for this called wufoo
www.wufoo.comthere is also a google forms that does this and puts the
results in
a spreadsheet.

On Thursday, May 2, 2013, Lisa Kachold wrote:

> Hi Joe!
> ...
>
> Let's go brainstorm the possibilities:
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:15 PM, <joe at actionline.com <javascript:_e({},
> 'cvml', 'joe at actionline.com');>> wrote:
>
>>
>> How to get form input results written to a file?
>>
>> On one of my websites, I use the html "form input" code shown below
>> for visitors to input their email address to be emailed to me. This
>> works fine.
>>
>> What would I need add to this code to get the same submitted
>> information written to a file in my web hosted space on my web
>> host's server in addition to having the information sent to me by
>> email?
>>
>> <form action=http://www.bluehost.com/bluemail method=POST>
>>  <input type=hidden name=sendtoemail value=joe at vsiq.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'joe at vsiq.com');>
>> >
>>  Please enter your email address:<p>
>>  <input type=text name=mailfrom size=30 maxlength=70>
>>  <input type=submit value=Send>
>> </form>
>>
>
> It appears you are using bluehost's mailer called BlueMail.  This email
> form help request would be most effective posted to Bluehost's support
> forums?  http://www.bluehostforum.com/archive/index.php/t-432.html
>
> Of course, you can't simply tell it to echo $mailfrom to a file?  Not
> without invoking php or another system call.
>
> I am sure you don't HAVE to use BlueHost's BlueMail CGI; HTML mail forms
> are pretty fun to write and use, however bluehost might have some peculiar
> constraints for obvious security reasons?
>
> Basic BlueMail How to:
>
> Log into the cPanel navigate to the CGI center.   In the cgi center click
> on BlueHost.com. On the BlueHost.com page, there is a functional form.
> Modify the email address listed in the default example to one on your
> account. After saving this form to a file, and uploading it, test it.  Once
> successful modify to fill needed requirements.  Please note the
> critically important parts are in the first couple lines, and the last few
> lines of the code for the form. The BlueHost.com page contains additional
> details about other available fields.  Most standard form mail fields are
> acceptable to use.
>
> Remember Bluemail will only send messages to an email address setup on
> your Bluehost account. If you wish to deliver the email elsewhere, you may
> setup an email forwarder instead.  OR USE another cgi!
>
> Here's a full well written explanation of using HTML forms:
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML_forms_-_the_basics - You can make some nice
> tricked out form fields and buttons!
>
> Clearly you should have PHP available, so you can use a nice expanded
> radio button jazzed up script/form that allows your users to upload a file
> that's sent with the email, or writes to a file (as you want).  James
> Huggins developed and runs one on a BlueHost (that gives you the option of
> saving to a file as well as emailing out form field input).
>
> http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/hefs/huggins-email-form-script.htm  free
> Of course you can also use PERL (which they also have available); just
> place the scripts into the directory parallel to public_html or in the
> directory under public_html/cgi-bin (just use whichever is already setup
> there) and make sure that the script file has executable permissions (755)
> and then check to see that you have enabled exegCGI in your management
> portal.  You might verify the location of perl with a command line "which
> perl" if you have ssh access.  According to some of the other users on the
> forums, in order to use server side includes with perl, you will need to
> specify "#!/ramdisk/bin/perl" as the first line in each script (rather
> than the #!/usr/bin/perl line).  You should be able to test run your
> scripts via "perl scriptname" (it might give an error as it expects input),
> to ensure it runs.
>
> #!/ramdisk/bin/perl
> # form2file.pl CGI
> # Sporked from Various HowTo's
> # ActionOnline/2013
> # Called from HTML path/filename
>
> use strict;
> use CGI qw/:standard/;
> use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
>
> # Parse Form Data
> # Requires a matching $variable for each of your form input questions
>
> my $mailfrom=param("name");
>
> # For example to add additional entries to be saved from your form:
> # my $comment=param("comment");
>
> open(FILE, ">>file.txt") || die "can't write to file.txt $!";
>
> print FILE "$mailfrom\n";
> print FILE "\n";
>
> close(FILE);
>
> print header(),
> start_html(-title=>'File Created'),
> 'File created!',
> end_html();
>
> # end
>
>
> NOTE:  The most frequent snafu's met with cgi-scripting are PATH based!
>  Try both server side paths ["../cgi-bin/form2file.pl"] and URLs ["
> http://www.myhost.com/cgi-bin/form2file.pl" since you can't see how the
> server is setup usually related to server side scripting and security -
> it's fastest to try.  Also watch for permissions and be sure that you can
> run the scripts locally if you have ssh!
>
> *So that will create your file info, but what about email?  Surprise!  *
> *
> *
> *Using Javascript you can invoke both the perl script-let below and the
> bluemail tool:*
>
>
> ############################Start JavaScript 2 Script
> Submit###############################
> <html>
> <head>
> <script language="Javascript">
> <!--
> function OnButton1()
> {
>     document.Form1.action = "http://myhost.com/cgi-bin/form2file.pl"
>     // document.Form1.target = "_blank";    // Open in a new window
>
>     document.Form1.submit();             // Submit the page
>
>     return true;
> }
>
> function OnButton2()
> {
>     document.Form1.action = "http://www.bluehost.com/bluemail"
>     document.Form1.target = "_blank";    // Open in a new window
>
>     document.Form1.submit();             // Submit the page
>
>     return true;
> }
> -->
> </script>
>
> <noscript>You need Javascript enabled for this to work</noscript>
> </head>
> <body>
> <!-- create the form -->
>
>
> <form name="Form1" method="post">
>
> <!-- Add the data entry bits -->
>
>  <input type=hidden name=sendtoemail value=joe at vsiq.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'joe at vsiq.com');>
> >
>   Please enter your email address:<p>
>   <input type=text name=mailfrom size=30 maxlength=70>
>
> <!-- Add some buttons -->
> <INPUT type="button" value="Button1" name=name onclick="OnButton1();
> OnButton2();">
> <!-- close the form -->
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> # End Javascript example
>
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