A form that spits out the input

Question

I can't for the life of me find a form that DOESNT email the results that you submit.

I'm looking to find a form that I can have users enter simple data that i can then spit back out at them in different arrangements. If they submit First and Last, I'll spit out, amongst other things, [email protected]. I'm willing to scrounge the code manually to do this, but I cant find a simple form that would allow me to do this.

EDIT: PHP or similar simple languages. I've never touched .NET before.

Answer 1

What language/platform/environment are you working in?

I guess you might be looking for a hosted script or webform (the way that people will host web-to-mail scripts I suppose) but I doubt there would be one out there that does this.

But if you have a specific framework to work in, e.g. PHP or .net, please update the question and let us know which.

Answer 2

PHP or similar simple languages. I've never touched .NET before.

Answer 3

Thing that simple doens't even need server-side support.

<form onsubmit="magic(this);return false">
    <p><label>First <input name=first/></label>
    <p><label>Last <input name=last/></label>
    <input type="submit">

    <div id="output"></div>
</form>   

<script type="text/javascript">
    var output = document.getElementById('output');
    function toHTML(text)
    {
        return text.replace(/</g,'&lt;');
    }

    function magic(form)
    {
        output.innerHTML = toHTML(form.first.value + form.last.value) + '@domain.com';
    }
</script>

Answer 4

Form:

<form action="process.php" method="post">
    First: <input type="text" name="first" />
    Last: <input type="text" name="last" />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

Next page:

<?php

$first = $_POST['first'];
$last =  $_POST['last']

echo $first . "." . $last . "@domain.com";
?>

See http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp for more examples and explanation

Answer 5

Regardless of how you get it, always remember to never trust user input.

<?php

$sfirst = htmlentities($_POST['first']);
$slast =  htmlentities($_POST['last']);

echo $first . "." . $last . "@domain.com";
?>

Also, running a validator on the final result may be helpful. But please don't write your own email address validator.

Answer 6

If I get your question right, sounds like this might do what you need..

Note: This PHP code doesn't require any knowledge of the fields in the form that submits to it, it just loops through all of the fields, including multiple-choice fields (like checkboxes), and spits out their values.

<?php
// loop through every form field
while( list( $field, $value ) = each( $_POST )) {
   // display values
   if( is_array( $value )) {
      // if checkbox (or other multiple value fields)
      while( list( $arrayField, $arrayValue ) = each( $value ) {
         echo "<p>" . $arrayValue . "</p>\n";
      }
   } else {
      echo "<p>" . $value . "</p>\n";
   }
}
?>