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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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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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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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to be clear, get the new form to similarly send the data to a text file or html page.
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You can set the action page such as
<form action=/secure/reservation.cgi method="POST">
and it will do the same as it does currently.
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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/