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QUESTION: Do you offer any pre-made CGI scripts that I can use with my hosting account?

ANSWER:

www.Cheap--Domain--Names.com's new CGI accounts provide our customers with access to a form-mailer script. This script accepts information from a form and emails that information back to a single address that the customer specifies. To make use of this service a person needs to know how to construct a form using HTML.

To use the service create and upload the form as normal. Bear in mind that the script will sort the names of the items on the form alphabetically when it composes the form response email, and that it respects case. Here is the order the form-mailer script recognizes:

Uppercase Letters First
Lowercase Letters Second
Numbers Third

By naming form items appropriately it is possible to organize response information as it is submitted.

HTML allows you to send the output from a form in two ways, get or post. You may use either with our form-mailer script. Just be sure to list the script in the action line as follows:

action=/cgi/gdform.cgi

Note that using the "get" method will limit the number of characters that your form can send to our script. This limitation is just part of the HTML and is not particular to www.Cheap--Domain--Names.com Further, the size of response emails is capped at 100 KB. Since the form-mailer will use plain text to send its messages this will not be an issue in most cases.

As mentioned above, form responses will be sent by the script to the email address that you specify. This setting is controlled through your Account Management. Once you're logged in to your account, go to your Hosting Management page. You may type in the email address that you would like our script to use for your form under the Other Settings column.

Lastly, there are three special fields that you may employ in your form: subject, redirect, and email. The names of these three fields must remain lowercase in order to work. You may make changes along the following lines:

The "subject" field controls the subject line of the form response email
The "redirect" field controls the page visitors will see after submitting the form
The "email" field controls the return address for the form response email

Here is a sample of some HTML code showing how these form fields are written:

<p><form action="/cgi/gdform.cgi" method="post"> <br>
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Form Submission"> <br>
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="thankyou.html"> <br>
First Name: <input type="text" name="FirstName"> <br> <br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="LastName"> <br> <br>
E-Mail: <input type="text" name="email"> <br> <br>
Comments: <textarea name="comments" cols="40" rows="10"></p>