Re: WC:>: Forms Question

[Barney L. Kinsey]

Try This

<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="required" VALUE="SEND ME,E-Mail">

 

Barney Kinsey

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Rhindress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: WC:>: Forms Question

Brent (or anybody)
    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:

> 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:
 

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