pow
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Hey all 
Imdesigning an Intranet, and want to place an ICT helpdesk on there for no urgent requests.
I want to use a form to allow people to submit their requests, but I want to know where the data will go when you hit the "submit" button.
Im fairly good with HTML, so say if I wanted to have a form that when submitted, creates a new text file with the submitted detail, can you dot hat?
THanks
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AndyKent
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You need PHP/ASP or similar to grab the data and put it into a help text file or database.
Can't be done without some form of server side scripting
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pow
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Pish.
Any ideas on howto do this then?
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Leighton
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just submit the form to a email address
then its in txt and ready to reply to 
job done
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drax
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Yeah I was going to suggest, easier to submit to an email address
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pow
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How do I do that, it wants to send it fro your email account, but I want it just to submit via the web form!
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Steve
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yes use a php page as that the form of the html page actions on.
then grab the info into a variable ie if you submitted text in a textbox called 'info' in the php put
$info = htmlentities($_REQUEST['info']);
as for making a text file its possible i dont know the commands off the top of my head but a quick search would do it
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pow
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Uhh ooo - PHP, is it easy?
Thanks Steve.
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Steve
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yes, if you play about with it a bit youl understand it
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Neo
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http://www.liberum.org/ ftw
that is all
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Ash_EP3
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PHP and ASP isn't that bad @ all mate... its useful when organising a site I s'pose & plus yeh you will need CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) of some sort to help as well 
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pow
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Mike, I love you
xxx
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Ian
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Its easy but I would personally write stuff to a MySQL database rather than a text file.
Not all that much more difficult, easier to read it, report on the data etc. and a bit more robust.
You got PHP/MySQL hosting?
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Neo
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Mike, I love you
xxx
aww thanks
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Steve
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what has css got to do with passing post variables to other pages 
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pow
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
what has css got to do with passing post variables to other pages
was thinking this tbh.
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ed
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If you want to do it in PHP, and maybe use MySQL there is enough information on the internet for you to figure it out. It's all Open Source so just give it a search in Google. I tought myself how to do it
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