FP2003 & Form handling on Yahoo

[ducksigns]

Hi - I'm fairly new to HTML, FrontPage, and web hosting, and am using
FrontPage 2003 for a site hosted on Yahoo. I'm trying to create form that
will upload a file along with some info in text boxes without much success.

What I'd like to do in decending order of preference is:

1st Choice - Send me an email with the form data & file as an attachment
2nd Choce - Send me an email with the form data and upload the file to a
directory on the server
3rd Choice - Upload the form data to a file on the server and the file to a
directory on the server.

Without going into all the details, I've had some success getting parts of
this to work (e.g. can get email with form data, but can't get file to upload
to server). Yahoo seems to be particular in how forms are processed and for
the email to work, I had to replace some of the FP generated code with some
Yahoo code.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

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Thomas A. Rowe
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Hi - I'm fairly new to HTML, FrontPage, and web hosting, and am using
FrontPage 2003 for a site hosted on Yahoo. I'm trying to create form that
will upload a file along with some info in text boxes without much success.

What I'd like to do in decending order of preference is:

1st Choice - Send me an email with the form data & file as an attachment

Not possible with FP Form Handler.

2nd Choce - Send me an email with the form data and upload the file to a
directory on the server

With FP, only possible if you are hosted on a Windows IIS web server that has the FP2002 extensions
and your web host (yahoo) allow files to be upload.

3rd Choice - Upload the form data to a file on the server and the file to a
directory on the server.

With FP, only possible if you are hosted on a Windows IIS web server that has the FP2002 extensions
and your web host (yahoo) allow files to be upload. Storing the data in a file can be done on any
server that has FP2000 or FP2002 extensions, if the web host allows.

Without going into all the details, I've had some success getting parts of
this to work (e.g. can get email with form data, but can't get file to upload
to server). Yahoo seems to be particular in how forms are processed and for
the email to work, I had to replace some of the FP generated code with some
Yahoo code.

Anyone know how to do this?

You have to deal with yahoo on any scripts they provide, etc.

 

[Ronx]

Yahoo uses Unix servers - the FrontPage upload component will only work
on Windows servers. Therefore you will need to find a server side
script that Yahoo will support.
To have the file as an attachment you will have to use a custom script
whatever type of server is used - this is not supported by the FrontPage
extensions.
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