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by irishkid1331

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i created a form in frontpage to function as a guestbook of sorts. i created (well, copied from a site) the CGI script for it to function. i ran the page and submitted a test form, and everything went fine, or at least i think so. no errors or anything came up, but theres a problem. what happened to that data i submitted? i wanted to have a page where my site visitors could see their post and others' as well. how do i find the data and then get that data back onto a page?

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by rmcvay

The whole purpose of the CGI form handler is to do something with the form data it receives in the request. Generally that will be 1) send the data in a formatted email, 2) save the data into a supporting database, 3) save the data into some form of text file. What does your form handler do?

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