the university of texas at austin
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE
Project #3.
Visitors to your site may wish to comment on your work, or they
may wish to send you additional information for you to include
in your pages.
You will design and implement a simple feedback form that will
allow visitors to enter their comments. The form will be processed by
a cgi program (as described in class) that you will invoke. All
comments will arrive to your email account. See an example
here.
First, you should start a normal html file. In your
section,
create a
<form> tag that invokes the following cgi script:
http://www.nortropic.com/cgi-gpasch/lisfback.pl. You can see
the PERL script
here, and
a sample form that uses this script is
here.
Then, design a form that includes all of the following fields:
- Visitor's name (text, up to 30 characters long): NAME
- Email address (text, up to 30 characters long): EMAIL
- Comment (text, up to 200 characters long): COMMENTS
- Who's form (hidden, 30 characters): MYEMAIL. Value: your own email address
- Name of your homepage file (hidden, 30 characters): HOMEPAGE. Value: your nortropic "userid", / and name of file, e.g.: gpasch/index.html
If you wish, you may also prompt them for these fields:
- Visitor's homepage (text, up to 50 characters long): URL
- Radio buttons. Variable: EVAL1
- Selection list. Variable: EVAL2
- Checkboxes. Variables: EVAL3, EVAL4, EVAL5, EVAL6, EVAL7
Remember to add a link from this form page to your homepage.
Give your form file a name like "fbform.html" or "feedback.htm".
When you are done, upload your feedback form. Finally, add a link from
your index.htm or index.html page to point to the feedback form.
If you're feeling adventurous, try (for fun) the alternative method
explained here.
Let me know if it worked ;-)
Week 3 page