[WEB4LIB] CGI SCRIPTS

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Probably the most EASY solution is to just use a regular form and set
enctype to "text/plain" and input type to "text" as shown here:

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:user at myschool.edu"
enctype="text/plain">Today's Date [mm/dd/yy]&#160;<INPUT type="text"
name="REQUEST FOR LIBRARY INSTRUCTION Date of Request: " size=8>

This will email user at myschool.edu the results of the form in a nice
plain text format without all the %a or whatever the usual syntax is in
a form result.

Another alternative would be java applets or scripts, and I suspect you
can probably find links to several java sites from the WEB4LIB web
pages.

Thomas


Carol Resco wrote:
> 
> We are a small library with a small library staff.  Our web pages our loaded on a UNIX machine which is under the jurisdiction of our IT dept.  We are able to access our web directory on the UNIX machine and make any changes we want to the look of the site. However, we have recently had some conflict with the IT dept over the use of forms.  We want to put up some forms for interlibrary loan requests, new book suggestions, reserve books, etc. but do not have the expertise for cgi scripts.  I think that we could probably download some ready made scripts but the IT dept. will not give us access to the cgi-bin directory.
> 
> My questions to those of you who probably know much more are : Do we need to get access to the cgi bin?  Could I load cgi scripts into my current web directory?  Should we really learn some programming before we attempt to create forms?
> 
> Thanks for your assistance!
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> Director of Library Services
> Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
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