html forms vs revlets

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Sep 10 05:26:01 EDT 2009


Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> I hadn't thought of using revlets in the place of forms but it is an
> interesting thought.
> Currently, we have html forms and the data they send can easily be
> processed using irev scripts.
> If you had a revlet acting as the form, there seem to be two ways it
> could handle the submitted data. Either it could "POST" it all off to
> a .irev file exactly or all the processing could be done in the revlet
> itself, with any emails generated (using the mail shell command) and
> data saved.

The vote polling example on the on-rev site does this. It displays a 
revlet inside an iRev page and posts the response back to the same iRev 
page. Works very well.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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