Question regarding forms,

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I have set up a form so that members of my club can enter up comming events
that we hold, the data for their entry is currently going into a private
file of which I can manipulate, I manually take that information and update
a page on my site so that the members can see that they are entered in that
event. What I want to do is to have the information that they enter on the
forms page automatically update the page on my site where the members go to
see they have indeed entered the event.

Thanks for your help
Paul
 
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|I have set up a form so that members of my club can enter up comming events
| that we hold, the data for their entry is currently going into a private
| file of which I can manipulate, I manually take that information and
update
| a page on my site so that the members can see that they are entered in
that
| event. What I want to do is to have the information that they enter on
the
| forms page automatically update the page on my site where the members go
to
| see they have indeed entered the event.
|
| Thanks for your help
| Paul
 
Hi Paul,

First off, I wouldn't use the following if they are posting personal info
e.g. email, phone, address etc.

However sans this, you could send the info to a .htm page and set the
results to HTML definition list like a guestbook. As long as it is a single
event, each entry would appear below the previous one. With this method and
multiple events, it would be best to have a separate form and destination
page for each.

So, for page, thanks page and then results page would work. The results page
could be the confirmation page as well, I think.


Mike Smith,

http://FrontPageForms.com
FrontPage Form Tutorials
& Form Script Examples
 
AMysticWeb said:
Hi Paul,

First off, I wouldn't use the following if they are posting personal
info e.g. email, phone, address etc.

However sans this, you could send the info to a .htm page and set the
results to HTML definition list like a guestbook. As long as it is a
single event, each entry would appear below the previous one. With
this method and multiple events, it would be best to have a separate
form and destination page for each.

So, for page, thanks page and then results page would work. The
results page could be the confirmation page as well, I think.


Mike Smith,

http://FrontPageForms.com
FrontPage Form Tutorials
& Form Script Examples
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Mike,
I was interested in your reply

This seems to imply that a visitor can update an HTML file.
Doesn't this need permission, e.g. a password?

Isn't an alternative to write to a database.e.g Access ?
This is something I want to investigate on a new site where I can use Access - my site below does not have this facility.

So far, I haven't succeeded, but I have had some pointers to sites which I will also be looking at

I assume your site would deal with this - I will be going there now
If not, do you have any good info to look at
Or if so, what pages on your site would help me most
 
Never thought about it that way, but it isn't really a willful page edit, it
is simply a form posting to an htm page.

I don't think it is really different than a custom confirmation page where
confirmation fields are used except that the entire form would post with the
definition list option, that is why I suggested not using personal info, as
it will be a public page.

After all, it is the server writing to the server rather than a user
actually writing to the file.

Unfortunately unlike database, it isn't really searchable and the fields
aren't stored uniquely.


Mike Smith,

http://FrontPageForms.com
FrontPage Form Tutorials
& Form Script Examples
 
You can not submitted to a file that is not in the _private folder unless the web host sets write
permissions. By default the FP extensions set the permissions on the _private folder for forms to
store submissions there.

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