sending text from forms to text files

[Guest]

i am using frontpage to create a site and i wanted to use a simple comments
post
i want the user to be able to type their message in a box and click the
submit button, then the message is sent to the end of a text file
the text file is also on the same page but in an IFRAME

 

[David Berry]

Right click on the form and under the form options you can specify the text
file you want to send the results to

 

[Guest]

yeah i tried that but it takes the browser to "--WEBBOT-SELF--"

 

[Guest]

yeah but it takes the browser to "--WEBBOT-SELF--"

 

[David Berry]

Do you have a URL we can look at?

yeah i tried that but it takes the browser to "--WEBBOT-SELF--"

 

[Guest]

no i dont at the moment i am currently still in the design stage , but the
file i am working with is just a simple webpage with a form and two buttons
one resets the form the other is suppose to submit the info... i can set it
up so you can take a look if you would like?

 

[Tom Willett]

Do you have FP server extensions installed on your design computer? The
forms require a server-based web with FP server extensions.
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Tom Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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| no i dont at the moment i am currently still in the design stage , but the
| file i am working with is just a simple webpage with a form and two
buttons
| one resets the form the other is suppose to submit the info... i can set
it
| up so you can take a look if you would like?
|
| "David Berry" wrote:
|
| > Do you have a URL we can look at?
| >
| >
| > | > > yeah i tried that but it takes the browser to "--WEBBOT-SELF--"
| > >
| > > "David Berry" wrote:
| > >
| > >> Right click on the form and under the form options you can specify
the
| > >> text
| > >> file you want to send the results to
| > >>
| > >>
message
| > >> | > >> >i am using frontpage to create a site and i wanted to use a simple
| > >> >comments
| > >> > post
| > >> > i want the user to be able to type their message in a box and click
the
| > >> > submit button, then the message is sent to the end of a text file
| > >> > the text file is also on the same page but in an IFRAME
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| >
| >
| >

 

[Ronx]

Are you seeing this in FrontPage code view, or in a browser?
In Code View, this is correct. When the page is saved or published it
will change, the change depends on the server it is saved/published to,
and how the page is published. Check in a browser.
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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
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[Guest]

to tell you the truth i dont know , lol but i would have thought that the
html code would sort that out

 

[David Berry]

The Form isn't going to work correctly until you publish it to a server with
the FrontPage Server Extensions installed.

 

[Guest]

i am seeing it in both the preview and in browser

 

[David Berry]

Is this a disk-based web (i.e. C:\webname) or a server-based web (i.e
http://localhost/webname)? This will only work on a server-based web. If
you're working locally and you're running Windows XP Pro then you can
publish your site to http://localhost/webname and then you should be able to
preview and test the form correctly.

Note: If you're running Windows XP Pro you may need to install the server
(IIS) first. You can do this through Control Panel, Add / Remove Programs,
Windows Components