Mail Form Handler
The Mail Form Handler is a a customizable CGI script designed to email information entered via Web-based forms, hosted inside the sjsu.edu domain. This script was initially released in August 2003 and has gone through a few iteration since then. The current version of the script is 6.1. This script has roots from version 3.2 of the script written by Tim Stevenson.
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Using the Form Handler
Basic
- Add the following line inside your Web page
<form method="post" action="http://www.sjsu.edu/cgi-bin/mail_form.pl">
- Following fields are required and should be used inside your form
- TO contains destination email address
- SUBJECT contains subject of the email
- FROM contains sender email address
- COMMENTS contains sender comments
- LNAME contains sender last name
- FNAME contains sender first name
Steps 1 and 2 provide basic information for using the script.
Advanced
A. Customization using HTML form fields
- Table Border: Default is YES. This can be changed as follows
<input type="hidden" name="TBORDER" value="NO"> - Response Page Title: Default is "Mail Form Handler Response:". This can be changed to any meaningful title
<input type="hidden" name="Response Page Title" value="Vistor Response Confirmation"> - Greeting: Default is "Thank You". This can be changes to any meaningful greeting
<input type="hidden" name="Greeting" value="Appreciate your feedback.">
B. Customization using HTML pages
- CSTART: Display additional information before the message sent
<input type="hidden" name="CSTART" value="greeting.htm"> - CEND: Display additional information at the end of the message sent
<input type="hidden" name="CEND" value="thanks.htm"> - CCONFIRM: Override current confirmation screen
<input type="hidden" name="CCONFIRM" value="myconformation.htm">
C. Specify a required field
D. Securing destination email address
- STO: A secure way to hide the destination email address. Contact the Web Services Unit to request a secure hash for your email address.
<input type="hidden" name="STO" value="WSUM">
E. Using HTML Mime type in email
- You can specify the email to use HTML MIME type using EMAIL_TYPE. Here custom HTML pages CSTART and CEND are emailed in HTML format.
<input type="hidden" name="EMAIL_TYPE" value="html">
Note: Some browsers may not handle MIME type HTML.
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