Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Reid
Can anyone provide some guidance on how I'd go about handling a POST from and HTML form? I'm trying to produce a simple form handling application in Rev using AltBrowser to provide the display of the form. However, I've no idea how I can get Rev to receive the POSTed form. I want this to

Re: Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

2005-10-13 Thread Dan Shafer
I'm probably missing something here, but if you're not building a Web application that runs on a Web server, why are you using a browser and HTML at all? A browser's only job, really, is to provide an interface between a user desktop and information stored on a Web server. (Yeah, I know it

Re: Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

2005-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Also doing form validation in Rev is way easier than in HTML + Javascript. It's just me or those AJAX guys seems a little code masochists... Cheers andre On Oct 13, 2005, at 4:15 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I'm probably missing something here, but if you're not building a Web application that

Re: Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Reid
Hi Dan I'm trying to produce a generic forms handler that can be used by people running surveys. Rather than try to make a generic forms design tool completely in Rev I thought I'd take advantage of the ease with which you can design forms in HTML. Then capture the Send and parse and e-mail

Re: Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

2005-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 13, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Peter Reid wrote: The problem is that I can't guarantee access to a web server with cgi on it in the variety of situations where I want to deploy these forms, so I thought I'd try to build the minimum web server functionality (enough to handle the form

Re: Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Reid
Andre Thanks for the feedback, which of your apps would you recommend for the simplest guidance on this? Peter, if you're trying to build a little webserver in Rev, well, that is pretty easy, I have many versions of webserver built in rev running fine. Just log into my user space in

Re: Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

2005-10-13 Thread Dan Shafer
I'm not so sure it's a daft idea at all. I just didn't understand your original motive. So you want to use HTML to *design* the forms (or, perhaps more accurately, to allow your users to design them) and then process the output via a Rev application. Interesting idea. With altBrowser,