form/script creators

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:44 am

Does anyone have any experience with programs that create the forms AND Perl scripts for pages ? I am looking at one called FormPAL, but I don't want the 7.0 edition. I would like to try an older one out so I can buy it used (= cheaper).

Anyone know of some good ones and where I can try them ?

Thanks !

wink · Post by **wink** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 5:45 pm

You might want to look here. They might have something that will do that for you.

http://www.hotscripts.com/CGI_and_Perl/ ... index.html

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:51 pm

Thanks man. I scrolled down and found this one:

http://tesol.net/scripts/AutoCGIMail/ (click the WORKING DEMO)

It will make the Form and CGI script for you online. It is pretty darn slick. However, I put it on my site, uploaded to server, changed CHMOD to 755, but it won't work. I cannot get a CGI/Perl to work on my server to save my life !

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:20 pm

Use PHP instead of perl, it's better and there are more free php scripts available.

wink · Post by **wink** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:48 am

Originally posted by mountainman
Thanks man. I scrolled down and found this one:

http://tesol.net/scripts/AutoCGIMail/ (click the WORKING DEMO)

It will make the Form and CGI script for you online. It is pretty darn slick. However, I put it on my site, uploaded to server, changed CHMOD to 755, but it won't work. I cannot get a CGI/Perl to work on my server to save my life !

I agree PHP is easier to work with. Could you post the error you are getting along with a snippet of the error_log and what Web Server w/ any modules you are using.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 12:23 am

PHP is much easier but how many free web servers offer it? And how many payservers have a good rate for it?

PHP is a database like parse style rather than cgi wich interpets commands and then responds.

As far as simple forms go use cgi unless you are dealing with millions of users and need a PHP style database functionality.

You can find loads of CGI/PERL info by searching yahoo for CGI programming or free cgi scripts... if your webserver is NT PERL is automatically mapped but if you use *nix as a server you will need to edit your CGI/PERL file to point to PErl 5 (ussually at the way top of the script as a rem)

''''''
Also open cgi/perl files saved to your hard disk with notepad/wordpad and you will see they generally arent that complicated and you could probably customize it yourself

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 5:01 pm

And how many payservers have a good rate for it?

Almost all paid web hosts have php 4.x installed and included in the hosting package at no extra fee. Better hosts have sites sandboxed so php errors do not crash other sites.

wink · Post by **wink** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 5:39 pm

I stumbed on this the other day, might be worth a look if someone wants to play around with php etc..

http://hostrocket.com/free/