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Riverine
10-14-2007, 07:49 PM
Hello all,
I need some advice:

I need to add a membership form to my website, and would like the output of this to be emailed to me in a delimited format (all data on one single line), so I can easily add it to the members database.

My host provides "FormMail" and although this seems fine in general, it doesn't provide the option of a delimited outputfile.

So, i found "BFormMail" and asked my provider to add the "delimited file output option", but they say they can't do it.

What other options are there for getting a delimited outputfile from FormMail, or how could I automatically (or easily manually) produce a delimited file from a html or txt file, or directly from an online form?

Alternatively, does anyone know any hi-tech arguments I could use to persuade my host to add the delimited output option to FormMail?

Many thanks in advance,
Riv.

felgall
10-14-2007, 10:06 PM
If your hosting supports a server side language then you can upload your own script that does what you want.

Riverine
10-15-2007, 03:36 PM
Thanks Felgall,
I'm using a server side include file already for my menu, but not sure what language that uses (will find out now), but when you say to upload my own file that does the text delimiting, do you mean a server side script that does the whole form and output and mailing off results etc., or just one that takes the FormMail form output, and delimits it?

I'm going to Google this, and see what I can find.
Do you have an example script of what you're thinking of?


Many thanks,
Riv.