CGI Form Example

[John Rule]

I am wondering why the 'Survey' example (or ANY cgi example) is hard to
find! This is a good example of doing forms from a cgi. Is it just me or
does it seem like little tidbits like this are disappearing to the 'revpros'
list? I have yet to see anything positive come out of this purchase
(referring to the overseas company 'Revolution' buying 'MetaCard')....I have
seen nothing but pricing changes.

Just do a search on 'MetaCard' and 'survey.mc'...

JR


> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:06:21 -0400
> From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
> Subject: CGI Form Example
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> Any examples out there on using Revolution as a CGI engine to process
> web forms?  And a related question: my crude understanding of the way
> that Revolution as a CGI works is that it does not understand controls
> (objects) per se, but can I have it communicate directly with open
> stacks in the usual way?  What I'm thinking of is a stack of student
> records.  The CGI would process the web form information, validate it,
> return a response to the user ("your information is correct, incorrect,
> missing, etc."), and then invoke a script in a regular stack that would
> update cards, delete them or create new ones.  Alternatively, I imagine
> that the individual records could be stored in text files, but I prefer
> the stack set up.
>
> I have been using FileMaker 6 Unlimited for this purpose till now, but
> I don't think I can afford the $999 US upgrade to Version 7 Advanced,
> and, quite frankly, I don't think it's worth it.
>
> Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
>
> G.
>
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