CSc 302 Assignments

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Create a web form. Your form may be for any purpose you like, though some possibilities are a guest book, an order form for fictional goods, or a sign-up for a fictional event. Use your imagination. Here are the requirements:

1. Usual boilerplate.
2. Use at least five different types of input tag. <textarea> and <select> can count as one of the five, even though they're not actually <input> tags.
3. Have your form processed on Sandbox. You may use savedat.php to save data to a file on your server account, or you may write a processor in PHP if you know how to do that.
4. Pay some attention to what is shown after the submit. Don't just use the savedat.php default. Make something that goes with you submission page.

Please name your assignment formasst.html and place your assignment in a forms directory under local_html. This will allow it to work with savedat.php if you use that, and won't hurt anything otherwise. Your URL will work out to http://sandbox.mc.edu/youraccout/forms/formasst.html.

Using savedat

1. Save your form in a directory local_html/forms. Won't work unless you put your form there.
2. Use the action URL http://sandbox.mc.edu/savedat.php.
3. Create a directory formdat under your home directory (not under local_html).
4. Change permissions so the web server can write your data directory.
   [test@sandbox test]$ cd local_html
   [test@sandbox local_html]$ mkdir forms
   [test@sandbox local_html]$ cd ..
   [test@sandbox test]$ mkdir formdat
   [test@sandbox test]$ chmod a+w formdat
5. The data file name is created based on the page name: a page stored as local_html/forms/mike.html will have its data stored in formdat/mike_data.txt under the same user account.
6. If you create a file formdat/mike.tmpl it will be used to build a final display page instead of the default. Its contents should be HTML, but anything of the form {name}, where name is the name of a data field in the form, will be substituted for the value. It also takes lines marked by #ifdef symbol … #endif which are included or excluded based on the symbol having a non-blank value.
7. If you don't have a formdata/mike.tmpl, and you create an ordinary page at local_html/forms/mike_resp.html, it will be displayed after the data is successfully stored.
8. In case of an error, or if you don't create a resp file, savedat.php will generate its own response page.

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