Posted by Stan McCann on 11/22/05 03:39

Mark Parnell <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au> wrote in
news:43814c3c$0$30821$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:

> In our last episode, <bluecoat2000@gmail.com> pronounced to
> alt.html:
>
>> Currently I'm using Matt's form mailer.

Kill it. Kill it now. It only took a few months for spammers to start
bouncing all kinds of stuff off my servers. I stopped it, sent out a
system wide message as to why (lots of forms users) and went into
research mode. Here's what I came up with:

> http://www.scriptarchive.com/nms.html is an open-source replacement
> for Matt's formmail, so you're free to change it (and I believe it
> is more secure). Of course, you still need to know Perl.

Not really. If you've got some programming skill in any language, it's
commented well enough for most to change what needs to be changed in
order to run on your site.

> Other than that, there are thousands of free form handler scripts
> available. What server-side languages do you know?

I've recently discovered PHP and am learning quickly; it uses just
about all the sytax of all major languages. Let's see, I just want to
print "Hello world". Is that print, echo, printf? Don't try to
remember, just type it in the way you remember with your favorite
languange and it'll probably work! It's enough to give us old
"structured programming" guys fits.

>> Cost is always a factor also.
>
> Of course. :-)

And PHP is free. I'm having fun developing an entire site that will be
developed largely with PHP, as always, learning as I go.

--
Stan McCann "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/pirate.html
Webmaster/Computer Center Manager, NMSU at Alamogordo
http://alamo.nmsu.edu/ There are 10 kinds of people.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.

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