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From:Don Cox
Date:13 Jul 2001 at 22:36:21
Subject:Re: HTML forms and the e-mail you recieve.

Hello Nicholaus

On 13-Jul-01, Nicholaus Darley-Jones wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just started to learn how to use forms on my website. Once completed,
> the form sends me an e-mail with the information that was filled in.
> This is usually a complete mess and looks something like this...
>
> VALUE1=xxxxVALUE2=xxxxxVALUE3=xxx...
>
> Is there any way I can get this information into a format that can be
> viewed more easily?

The Perl module cgi.pm was designed to make this easy.

See the O'Reilly book "CGI Programming with Perl" for details.

I imagine you can do it with PHP too, but I haven't used PHP. Or if on
the Amiga, you could certainly parse the string with ARexx, which has
very good parsing commands.

Regards



Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net

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