how do I create a form in auto play

[edandel]

Hi gang,
is it possible to create a form in autoplay? I wanted the end user to enter reponses to questions, capture their response and then send it to me in an email. I know another way would be to open a word doco but I do not want to give people accesss to the form.

can this be done?
thanks
eddie

[JimS]

Hi gang,
is it possible to create a form in autoplay? I wanted the end user to enter reponses to questions, capture their response and then send it to me in an email. I know another way would be to open a word doco but I do not want to give people accesss to the form.

can this be done? thanks
eddie

Yes it can.

[JimS]

Just teasing you! :lol

Check out this thread:
http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7787&highlight=php+email

This is a fairly common question, so you should also be able to use the search, to find even more.

Hope that helps :)

[TJ_Tigger]

Just teasing you! :lol



That was funny, you almost made coffee come out my nose. :D

[edandel]

hey Jim,
thanks for your response and assistance. I had a look at the threads and that would be ideal for me. At the moment my web hosting provider charges an extra $30 per month for CGI (PHP) which I did not want to spend. I was hoping to simply do it within AMS. It did lead me to a solution though which was creating the forms on my web site and simply having a web content page within AMS. I did come accross something that did a screen capture within AMS and I wanted to do that with the fields or the text input. If you have any more ideas then that would be appreciated. If not thanks once again it did help me out :)

[GalacTek]

$30.00 a month just for CGI.. Ouch... you can get a site with ALL bells from http://www.valueweb.com/ for less then that. We have used them for over 6 years. I highly recommend them. I'm sure their are other great hosting companys out their. Maybe a there is a forums user that does hosting!

[JimS]

Eddie,
A couple of things. First, I have to agree with GalacTec, $30/ month for allow scripting or a cgi-bin is crazy. You’ll find several hosting companies that will provide that much cheaper.

Second, you might be able to bypass the form. Generally speaking, when you hit the ‘submit’ button on a webpage form, it ‘Post’s a string to a script, that string contains all the answers to the form, something like:

http://www.myweb.com/form.php?q1=jim&q2=USA

In my little example ‘jim’ is what the user filled in for the first form field, ‘USA’, is the second field. ‘http://www.myweb.com/form.php?’ is the location of the script.

You can create a form in AMS using listboxes, and inputs, etc. then format it as the proper string format needed. Then use the HTTP.Submit action to submit the form responses to the script. The biggest ‘trick’ to doing it this way, is to give the script the proper permissions to be run from any IP address (all the user’s IP addresses).

I hope that helps.

[edandel]

Thanks to all the have thrown in their ideas. they have all been very helpful

cheers