Testing the Script
Once you have created the HTML form, created the script, and checked the permissions on everything, there’s nothing left to do but fill out the form and submit it. If everything works right, you should get the “Thank You” screen, which in my case looked like Figure 3-2.
Figure 3-2. The “Thank You” page delivered by mail_form.cgi
A few minutes later, if you check your email, you should have a
message like this waiting for you at whatever email address you
specified in the configuration section’s
$recipient
variable:
Subject: Sample Web Form Submission Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:00:34 -0700 From: "John Callender" <jbc@west.net> To: forms@example.com name: John Callender address: 1234 Any St. city: Anytown state: CA zip: 91234 country: USA email: jbc@west.net color: blue movies: Blade Runner movies: Pulp Fiction movies: Full Metal Jacket grow_up: CGI programmer sandwiches: They're actually not bad if you use lots of peanut butter.
The body of that email, again, will consist of the names and values
of all the fields in the HTML form submitted by the web user, which
the script stored in the $mail_body
variable
before printing it out to the email message.
If this doesn’t work for you (and it probably won’t the first time), get busy checking your error logs and testing your script from the command line and doing all the other things you need to do to track down and eliminate ...
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