on their own church’s web site. It would be a nice favor to a good client if I could tell them how to do it.
I’m more of an ASP person, so I’ve never really delved into CGI/PERL. But my friend’s church’s site is definitely CGI-based (.shtml pages). How do I do this (make a form that lets a church member put in her own name/e-mail and a friend’s name/email and send a form-letter invitation to said friend’s e-mail)?
I assume that there’s a billion free scripts like this online, somewhere … but all I can find are the more typical form/e-mail scripts, where someone types info. into fields and then sends that info. in an e-mail to YOUR address–not to a variable third party’s address.
You might also want to ask the client if their Web host has some sort of control panel for users, or a nice “what you can do with your account” FAQ for users.
I’m also an “ASP Guy” (but a girl…) and had to do a CGI form for someone one time. I got their control panel URL, logged in and after a few minutes of clicking around I found that there were some nice pre-installed CGI scripts for users and it gave instructions on how to use each one and the settings you need to use.
Then I charged them a lot of $$ to do it, just because this “webmaster” was too stupid to figure it out herself. heh. n00bs
But yeah, if it’s a nice Unix webhost, I bet they have some nice pre-installed scripts to use.
