Personalizing a page on the fly

[Omicron2]

I use a cgi form script (formmail) to allow users on a webpage to communication with me.
After they send a comment, I have a "Thank you" page appear.
I'd now like to have that Thank you page be personalized with their name.
In other words, if they entered "Jack" as their name when filling out the form, I'd like my HTML "Thank You" page to say "Thank you JACK for submitting your comment". I guess you would call this customizing on the fly.
Can someone direct me as to how something like that could be done? Do I need something like php to do it? I have very limited knowledge of cgi and even less knowledge of php.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

[Blulagoon]

You can certainly do this with PHP, but it would be easiest to use a PHP script to process the form rather than formmail, that way the name could be passed to the processing PHP page using the $_POST variable.

However, you would have to install PHP on your system and then learn how to use it.

Blu