Directing what happens to submitted form contents.

For Sphynx Sites: Site customers may use either of two available form handling cgi's by Matt Wright:

• Formmail - simple version - a Perl script that processes the results of a form on your site and returns a "plain vanilla" page to the person submitting the form. The returned page lists the completed fields and their contents in order of occurrence.
  

  <form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/formmail.pl">

• FormMail - full-featured version - a Perl script that processes the results of a fill-out form on your site. You control the look of the page returned to the user or you can redirect the user to your own prepared "thank you" page.
  

  <form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/formmail-z.pl">

What form handling scripts do.

Clicking the "SUBMIT" button on the form page tells your browser to gather up the form contents, separate them with ampersands "&" and send the information to a handling script named "formmail.pl" in the "cgi-bin" directory one level below server root (the httpd directory). formmail.pl takes the information and processes it. Typically, it rearranges and formats the submitted form content and emails it to you then sends the browser an answer page in html with form results nicely formatted and displayed.

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