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Title: Form Tools and web page submission
Post by: mophilly on September 22, 2009, 05:53:57 PM

We are retiring an aging perl cgi that serves as our current web form submission handler and I am seeking a replacement. One of the candidates is a product called Form Tools from http://www.formtools.org/ (http://www.formtools.org/).

My questions:

1. Has anyone an opinion of Form Tool?
2. Any alternatives?
3. On SME, is it reasonable to use an ibay specifically for web form handling and link to it from another ibay?

BTW, PHP is not a requirement here. Any reasonable server side solution will do.

Title: Re: Form Tools and web page submission
Post by: piran on September 22, 2009, 08:36:39 PM

Quote from: Mophilly on September 22, 2009, 05:53:57 PM

1. Has anyone an opinion of Form Tool?
2. Any alternatives?
3. On SME, is it reasonable to use an ibay specifically for web form handling and link to it from another ibay?

1. no
2. http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=238
3. might get a cross site script warning for some browsers YMMV

Title: Re: Form Tools and web page submission
Post by: mophilly on September 22, 2009, 09:02:17 PM

Thanks, piran. The Green Beast product looks like a good choice. I will exercise it today.

FWIW, setting up Form Tool was a snap.

Still open to other ideas and feedback.

Title: Re: Form Tools and web page submission
Post by: CharlieBrady on September 22, 2009, 11:14:25 PM

1. No
2. I've been impressed with Mojolicious::Lite from CPAN, but that might be more general purpose than what you are looking for.
3. Should be OK, but I would prefer to do it using a custom template, and put the files somewhere where they can't be accessed via smb, ftp, etc.

Title: Re: Form Tools and web page submission
Post by: mophilly on September 23, 2009, 12:29:45 AM

Thanks for the reply, Charlie.

I looked at Mojolicious::Lite and it is certainly interesting. As you mentioned, it is bit more than what I need, at least in the short run.

I like the idea of moving it way from the ibays. That has worked well for a couple of other apps I use, so that really appeals to me.

Title: Re: Form Tools and web page submission
Post by: CharlieBrady on September 23, 2009, 12:36:38 AM

Quote from: Mophilly on September 23, 2009, 12:29:45 AM

I looked at Mojolicious::Lite and it is certainly interesting. As you mentioned, it is bit more than what I need, at least in the short run.

It's probably both more and less than what you need, in that it's general purpose.

I'm thinking that M::L (or Mojo which lies behind it) would be good technology for reworking server manager.

Title: Re: Form Tools and web page submission
Post by: mophilly on September 23, 2009, 01:22:50 AM

I did some work with Chuck Easterbrook's Webware for Python, which has some similar characteristics. The "simplicity is good" attitude is always a good thing.