not sure what its called....

Anon

I am looking for a form script (if that is what it is called) that I can put on my site to have people fill out. But instead of getting the information sent to me in the form of an email I would like to have it post on another page in my site.
This is where it gets tricky, I think. The form will have a drop down menu that will allow the person to chooose the state they are in. Once the form is completed and they hit the submit button, that information is stored on the page specified by the state they are in.
I will have a seperate page showing all the state names.
That way people can access the page with the posted information they want by choosing what State they are in.
An expample of this is at

http://mongooseatb.com/cgi-bin/locations.cgi

Just look for the picture of the USA. There are "ADD LOCATION" links above and below the map that take you to the form I am talking about.
Thanks.

jcleary

Tim

The answer really depends on weather or not you have MySql on your server. If you do, then all you need is a table with a field for the state (as well as the rest of the data). Insert the data into the table when they press submit and hey presto.

Next you need a page which take the state as a parameter (like this - state_page.php?state=state1). The script can then select from the database based on the value in state.

If you dont have MySql then I dont know how you would go about it.

John

Anon

Hi there,

The way you go about it if you dont have MySQL is by simply storing the information in a textfile. That way is not as fast and reliable as using a real database, of course.

If what youre planning is like the site you mentioned, store the data your visitors provide in text files, one file for each state.

Store the data as one line per location, "fields" seperated by any character (like ; or | ). That way, including the data into the "results" page is pretty simple. Look up "fgets", "fgetcsv" and similar in the reference to give you an idea.

Still, if you have MySQL, use it 🙂

Jan