Once you've created an online form, you'll need the user's results sent somewhere. Our web server has a script to do this processing for you. This script will email results to an address that you specify. You just need to complete a few simple steps. **Note: If your site is not on the University's webpub server, this script will not work
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As part of these steps, you need to add some new tags to your form, and you'll need to create two files, in addition to your web page.

Configuring the Form
The first thing you will need to change, is the content of your form tag itself. The <form> tag needs to have at least two attributes, method and action. If you don't already have the method filled in, set it to POST. The value of the action attribute needs to be: http://www.brown.edu/cgi-local/eform.cgi
A correct form tag will look like this:

<form method="POST" action="http://www.brown.edu/cgi-local/eform.cgi">

Once the form tag is correct, two additional tags need to be added. On the next line after the above form tag, add two hidden input tags. They will look like this:

<input type="hidden" name="_send_email1" value="[SEE BELOW]/email.txt">
<input type="hidden" name="_browser_out" value="[SEE BELOW]/output.html">

The only thing to change in the above tags is the SEE BELOW part. First, write down the URL to your form page. Replace [SEE BELOW] with everything in between http://www.brown.edu and the form page name. For example, if this page were going to have a form, the URL to this page is: http://www.brown.edu/webmaster/webpublishing/eform.cgi, so I would replace [SEE BELOW] with /webmaster/webpublishing, and my finished tags would be:

<input type="hidden" name="_send_email1" value="/webmaster/webpublishing/email.txt">
<input type="hidden" name="_browser_out" value="/webmaster/webpublishing/output.html">

Your tags will be different, as they need to use your URL.

When creating your form field names, do not use underscores unless you understand what they mean to this script. To see what using an underscore in your form name means, check page 3. If you don't understand what this means, the short answer is use underscores like is described above with _send_email1 and _browser_out, but not anywhere else in your form.

Two more steps to go: Create 2 files

If you're confused, or still have questions, email Webpublishing@brown.edu