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aquaminerale
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February 21, 2021
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Send form data to another page as text

  • February 21, 2021
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hello all- i'm updating an old website and they have a sort of self-serve reseravtion system for their ski club. members fill out a reservation form then when submitted, the simple text data shows up on this other page that they can access to see reservations that are already made. It seems like a simple thing to set up but i can't figure out how they did it. i have the new site and form set up in dreamweaver but i can't figure out how to coax the completed form data into another page.

 

here's the old site info:

randolphskiclub.org

reservation page: http://randolphskiclub.org/secure/reservationpage.shtml

data page: http://randolphskiclub.org/secure/reservationout.txt

password: skiRSC2018

 

any help/clues would be greatly appreciated.

 

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    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    February 21, 2021

    I haven't touched Perl / CGI in ages.  A list was published in 2014 of the 5 programming languages marked for death: Perl, Ruby, Visual Basic, Flash and Pascal.

     

    PHP was inspired by Perl. Nowadays, PHP is preferred over Perl for web applications.  Since you're rebuilding the site anyway, this might be a good opportunity to upgrade your form processing scripts, too.

    https://code-boxx.com/simple-php-reservation-system/

    https://www.php.net/

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
      BenPleysier
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      BenPleysierCommunity Expert
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      February 21, 2021

      When the form is submitted, the action page - http://randolphskiclub.org/secure/reservation.cgi - handles the process. I assume that it enters the data into the text document. 

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      aquamineraleAuthor
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      February 21, 2021

      thanks for your response. i'm trying to build that same functionality into the new website. in other words, tell the new form i created to do the same (or similar) thing with the data.

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