Compiling data from a form
Hello,
I'm currently using a form on my site to allow users to vote for officers in our organization. Currently, I receive an email indicating what the person entered on the form when he submits the form. I then have to manually tally the data that I receive. Is there a way to have the system automatically tally the results? Thanks.
Bob
Vincent Puglia posted this at 02:14 — 24th May 2000.
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Hi,
cgi.
if you have a guestbook, you might be able to send the info there -- place it in a var, read it, increment it, rewrite it by appending.
Vinny
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Bob posted this at 02:27 — 24th May 2000.
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Vinny,
Thanks for the reply. I do have a guestbook, but I'm at a loss as to how I would place data sent to the guestbook into a var, then read it. Any chance that you would have some sample code of how to do that? Thanks again.
Bob
Anonymous posted this at 04:45 — 24th May 2000.
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Take a look at:
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Survey_and_Voting/
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Lloyd Hassell posted this at 05:14 — 24th May 2000.
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Vinny is right - you need CGI. You don'y need to get the results in email format, you can get this data sent directly to a script which can organise it for you. The script can store the data in a database or a text file.
I will move this post to the Cgi & Perl Forum.
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