Overview

The formproc program was written by Michael Fryd to meet the basic, in-house forms to e-mail needs of Total Enterprises, Inc.

Goals

• simple to setup
• easy to use
• good looking output
• basic input checking
• safe (hard for hackers to get into)
• basic forms to email functionality for order forms, information requests, and guestbooks.
• basic guestbook logging to file

formproc is not intended to be a solution to every problem. It can not be programed, and will not make decisions based on user input.

Use

For each form, there are three types of files which must be created, the form html file, the formproc control file, and template files for any output from the form.

The html form file is a standard html form file, and can be created with standard html creation tools, such as Adobe Pagemill.

The formproc control file specifies which fields the user is required to fill in, and what should be done with the results.

The template files are skeleton versions of the responses, and any e-mail the form should generate.

Installation

Install cgi into cgi-bin

configure apache handlers