Hi,

I work for a isp. We have portal where often simple contactforms with db's has to be made. For our b-b clients also.

In our staff there are editors who don't program but who update the site and who implement things we program.
Well I was sick and tired of doing this simple task and here's my solution.

I builded 1 table with all fields that could ever be wanted in a contactdb. Also some extra fields(you never know). Wrote a connection-cgi that has to be called from the form. In the form had to be given a INPUT=HIDDEN with the name of which place the contactform whas calling from.
Next step was a bit trickier. I made a cgi-script where you check which fields you needed and it builded the HTML code that was between <FORM ..> to </FORM> so they just had to copy and paste it in they're dreamweaver(*yuk*).

No more making contact-tables and input-tags.

Why did I did this. Well, because I'm lazy :-)

In reply to Generating forms by toadi

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