Generic form script?

[Eric_Otto@adobeforums.com]

Is there someplace that I can download a generic CGI script that I can use to process forms from PDF? Here's what I need:

1- a generic script that I can edit to fit the purpose of the moment
2- something I can drop on anyone's web site
3- something that will accept info from a PDF form on a CD (as FDF info) when the "submit" button is clicked
4- sort out the FDF info and generate an e-mail to a mailbox that's part of the same website where the script is (i.e., I do a CD for Widget Inc that sends FDF data to a script on Widget Inc's web site on an ISP server and generates an e-mail with the information from the form to [email]sales@widgetinc.com[/email]).

The point being- I don't want to do a custom script every time I produce a CD. I would like to have a single script that I can modify according to the form fields and the destination of the e-mail. I'd like to be able to just drop it into the root directory of the website and have it process forms coming from the PDF on a CD.

Simple, no?

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

>1- a generic script that I can edit to fit the purpose of the moment

There are an almost unlimited number of things a web form might need
to do...

>2- something I can drop on anyone's web site

Most web sites don't allow scripting at all. Of those that does, there
is no universal standard that is both allowed, and works. Some sites
require CGI. Some require ASP. Some might require still other
things...

>3- something that will accept info from a PDF form on a CD (as FDF info) when the "submit" button is clicked
>4- sort out the FDF info and generate an e-mail to a mailbox that's part of the same website where the script is (i.e., I do a CD for Widget Inc that sends FDF data to a script on Widget Inc's
>web site on an ISP server and generates an e-mail with the information from the form to [email]sales@widgetinc.com[/email]).

Now that's reasonably feasible, within the limitations above. Bear in
mind though that, just as the programming method isn't universal, so
is the method for sending e-mail not universal. Unix systems often
offer sendmail. NT systems will frequently have CDONTS. Goodness knows
what a Mac server might have. So, you do need a programmer that
understands the specifics of the site for which they are programming.

>The point being- I don't want to do a custom script every time I produce a CD.

If you can dictate the ISP for the site, you may be able to have one
script you can adapt easily.

>I would like to have a single script that I can modify according to the form fields and the destination of the e-mail.

Commonly, things like destination e-mail aren't stored in the script
at all, but in the form (as a hidden field). This allows much more
generic scripting (within the limitations above).

>I'd like to be able to just drop it into the root directory of the website and have it process forms coming from the PDF on a CD.

You need to study site administration a little more, I suspect. (Maybe
you have, but for a narrow range of types of site). Almost no web
sites would allow scripts in the root directory. Most have a
site-specific directory, though some have a naming convention instead.

Aandi Inston