Since you mention Matt Wright's formmail, I'll ask for help. I've been trying to activate the "required" feature there but have no luck. Could someone kindly take a look and see what I'm missing? I'm only looking to require two fields "send" and "email". The "test" page is at:
http://www.wizvax.net/btradeco/new_join.htm
Brent Eades wrote:
On 26 Jan 99, Gerry Ott wrote:<snip>> I have installed an Information Request Form on my clients site. He wants
> to verify that certain fields of data are filled out and otherwise reject
> the submittal with a "missing info" comment if they aren't filled out. In
> all the forms tutorials I have bookmarked, the issue of verification is
> not addressed. Is this an html exercise or a server side cgi function?
> In either case, can anyone point me to a site where forms verification is
> covered?It's a fairly straightforward scripting issue, can be handled in
Javascript, Perl, ColdFusion and no doubt other languages/extensions.If you use the Matt Wright's venerable formmail.pl to process your
information requests, some basic validation comes built-in (at least
in the version I use, 1.6) -- here's the salient bit:
