Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

[Peter Reid]

Hi Dan

I'm trying to produce a generic forms handler that can be used by 
people running surveys. Rather than try to make a generic forms 
design tool completely in Rev I thought I'd take advantage of the 
ease with which you can design forms in HTML.  Then capture the Send 
and parse and e-mail the info returned.  I could distribute the Rev 
forms app with an associated HTML file and the Rev app would be used 
to complete the form and send an e-mail of the results to a 
designated address.

The idea came from doing a similar thing with web pages on a 
university web site that used a cgi to e-mail the results and where I 
use a Rev app to analyse those results.

The problem is that I can't guarantee access to a web server with cgi 
on it in the variety of situations where I want to deploy these 
forms, so I thought I'd try to build the minimum web server 
functionality (enough to handle the form content) into my Rev app 
instead!

OK it may be a daft idea but it seemed worth investigating!

Peter

>I'm probably missing something here, but if you're not building a 
>Web application that runs on a Web server, why are you using a 
>browser and HTML at all? A browser's only job, really, is to provide 
>an interface between a user desktop and information stored on a Web 
>server. (Yeah, I know it *can* be used for other things, but they're 
>not its natural function.)
>
>Assuming I'm just not completely wacko here (and there's always that 
>possibility), this seems like a job for Revolution all by its 
>lonesome. Create the form as a set of fields and other input 
>controls in a Rev stack.
>
>
>On Oct 13, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Peter Reid wrote:
>
>>I want this to run as a standalone app without the need for a local 
>>web server.  So my user would fill in a form on screen which has 
>>been designed using standard HTML, click on the "Send" button and 
>>my Rev app would receive the content of the form.
>>
>
>
>
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