Posted by Steve Pugh on 01/04/07 15:05

Geoff wrote:
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
> news:89f7a$459d12cc$40cba7cd$25819@NAXS.COM...
> > Geoff wrote:
> >>
> >> Secondly, I want the number that has been entered, to be added to a list
> >> on a hidden page. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would
> >> be most grateful.
> >
> > Now here you lose me. DO you mean something like a tally for a poll? If so
> > you need some server-side scripting. Your form would have to post to,
> > specified in the ACTION attribute of your FORM element. The script would
> > have to process and store said value in some sort of data file or
> > database.
> >
> Thks for the prompt reply. I simply want to see what each visitor has typed
> into the textbox. It is too complicated using serverside variable passing,
> to have it emailed to me every time, so I thought simply to have the content
> of the textbox added to a list on a hidden page which I could access
> occasionally to see what numbers had been entered.

Top posting fixed, please don't do it again - it reduces your chances
of getting answers from some of the most knowledgeable participants.

So, instead of your server side script sending you an e-mail it writes
the submission into a file. You still need something on the server to
process the form submission and carry this out, because there's no way
that an HTML page, being parsed by a browser on the user's machine can
do anything at all on your server.

Steve

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