My First CGI Script

[Sheila King]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:32:16 -0700, Ben Ocean <zope at thewebsons.com> wrote in
comp.lang.python in article <mailman.988393079.6823.python-list at python.org>:

:If anyone has a simple cgi script they could share with me that does 
:anything remotely similar to the needs I outline herein and the script I've 
:cobbled together at the bottom of this email it would be appreciated!

You are welcome to look at my script, GypsyMail, which is here:
http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/computers/software/gypsymail.html

Heck, maybe you'd rather use that than write your own?

:At 10:22 PM 4/26/2001 -0600, you wrote:
:>Ben Ocean wrote:
:> > **How do I capture the data?
:>
:>What I normally do first is
:>
:>form = cgi.FieldStorage()
:>
:>That grabs all of the data from your form. Then, you
:>can grab the individual components of your form by
:>using it like a dictionary. (ie: form["name"], form["address"])
:
:I'm lucky. This first project is dirt-down simple. I don't care what the 
:data is! I just need to get it to the client after the visitor enters it. I 
:was designing a page to put up on the site, but perhaps it would just be 
:easier to email the data to the client.

If all you want to do is retrieve the data entered from a file, and e-mail it
to a client, I guarantee that GypsyMail can do this.

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Sheila King
http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
http://www.k12groups.org/