Reading html form data from Python and e-mailing it
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Chavoux Luyt
Nov 23, 2009, 4:36:02 PM11/23/09
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Hi all!
I am pretty sure this should be possible with python without too much
trouble? From my google search it seems that I can import smtplib for
sending the e-mail. But is it possible to get the submitted content of
a web form in a static html file? Most of the search results I found
seems to suggest something like django or using dynamic web pages. I
was thinking of just putting the python file in cgi-bin and linking to
it from the submit button. This would be the only page on the site I
will use python for... all the rest will be static html (with css)
that the client can easily change and update as they want. (My other
option is finding a windows host and using asp .NET with c# (in which
I know how to do this), but that feels like total overkill for a
single web form.
Any pointers appreciated
Chavoux
I am pretty sure this should be possible with python without too much
trouble? From my google search it seems that I can import smtplib for
sending the e-mail. But is it possible to get the submitted content of
a web form in a static html file? Most of the search results I found
seems to suggest something like django or using dynamic web pages. I
was thinking of just putting the python file in cgi-bin and linking to
it from the submit button. This would be the only page on the site I
will use python for... all the rest will be static html (with css)
that the client can easily change and update as they want. (My other
option is finding a windows host and using asp .NET with c# (in which
I know how to do this), but that feels like total overkill for a
single web form.
Any pointers appreciated
Chavoux
Simon Cross
Nov 23, 2009, 4:52:39 PM11/23/09
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Chavoux Luyt <cha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any pointers appreciated
http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html
> Any pointers appreciated
http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html
Chavoux Luyt
Nov 23, 2009, 5:20:48 PM11/23/09
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Thanks Simon! Exactly what I was looking for!
Now for my first "Hello world" program in Python! :-)
Chavoux
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Now for my first "Hello world" program in Python! :-)
Chavoux
2009/11/23 Simon Cross <hodg...@gmail.com>:
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>> Any pointers appreciated
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> http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html
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Chavoux Luyt
Nov 23, 2009, 5:24:44 PM11/23/09
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Thanks Simon!
2009/11/23 Simon Cross <hodg...@gmail.com>:
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> http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html
2009/11/23 Simon Cross <hodg...@gmail.com>:
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> http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html
Stéfan van der Walt
Nov 23, 2009, 5:57:54 PM11/23/09
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Hi Chavoux
2009/11/23 Chavoux Luyt <cha...@gmail.com>:
web.py should do the trick:
http://webpy.org/
http://webpy.org/cookbok/postbasic
Regards
Stéfan
2009/11/23 Chavoux Luyt <cha...@gmail.com>:
http://webpy.org/
http://webpy.org/cookbok/postbasic
Regards
Stéfan
Raoul Snyman
Nov 24, 2009, 11:05:30 AM11/24/09
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2009/11/24 Stéfan van der Walt <sjvd...@gmail.com>:
You can also look at Pylons[1], TurboGears[2] or Django[3].
[1] http://pylonshq.com/
[2] http://turbogears.org/
[3] http://djangoproject.com/
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You can also look at Pylons[1], TurboGears[2] or Django[3].
[1] http://pylonshq.com/
[2] http://turbogears.org/
[3] http://djangoproject.com/
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Chavoux Luyt
Dec 7, 2009, 10:30:56 AM12/7/09
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Hi guys!
Thanks for all the help. I decided to go with the plain cgi module,
but now I am running into a problem. I am not sure if the problem is
in my html code or in the Apache setup. When I click on the button in
the html page, instead of running the Python script, it just returns
the python source code (asking if it must save or open the file). I am
fairly certain that the problem is not in the Python code itself
because it runs fine from the command-line and the file is executable.
I have Apache2 installed (Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_ssl/2.2.9
OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_jk/1.2.26 PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch
mod_wsgi/2.5 Python/2.5.2 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80); added to the
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf file the following line:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/wwww/cumeta/cgi-bin/
Running Python2.5 on Simply Mepis 8.
My html file is pretty simple:
"
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Talk back</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="./cgi-bin/backchat.py" method="post">
<button name="SubmitBtn" type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
"
What am I missing? Why doesn't it actually run the python script?
(Also pretty straight-forward):
"
#!/usr/bin/env python
import smtplib
import cgi
print "Content-Type: text/html" # HTML is following
print # blank line, end of headers
print "<TITLE>CGI script output</TITLE>"
print "<H1>This is my first CGI script</H1>"
print "Hello, world!"
"
I googled the problem and the best answer I found so far was
"http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html#configuring"
Any ideas?
Chavoux
Thanks for all the help. I decided to go with the plain cgi module,
but now I am running into a problem. I am not sure if the problem is
in my html code or in the Apache setup. When I click on the button in
the html page, instead of running the Python script, it just returns
the python source code (asking if it must save or open the file). I am
fairly certain that the problem is not in the Python code itself
because it runs fine from the command-line and the file is executable.
I have Apache2 installed (Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_ssl/2.2.9
OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_jk/1.2.26 PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch
mod_wsgi/2.5 Python/2.5.2 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80); added to the
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf file the following line:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/wwww/cumeta/cgi-bin/
Running Python2.5 on Simply Mepis 8.
My html file is pretty simple:
"
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Talk back</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="./cgi-bin/backchat.py" method="post">
<button name="SubmitBtn" type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
"
What am I missing? Why doesn't it actually run the python script?
(Also pretty straight-forward):
"
#!/usr/bin/env python
import smtplib
import cgi
print "Content-Type: text/html" # HTML is following
print # blank line, end of headers
print "<TITLE>CGI script output</TITLE>"
print "<H1>This is my first CGI script</H1>"
print "Hello, world!"
"
I googled the problem and the best answer I found so far was
"http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html#configuring"
Any ideas?
Chavoux
Simon Cross
Dec 7, 2009, 11:28:27 AM12/7/09
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Chavoux Luyt <cha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I googled the problem and the best answer I found so far was
> "http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html#configuring"
If you accessed the page before setting everything up correctly, try
> I googled the problem and the best answer I found so far was
> "http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html#configuring"
flushing all of your browser caches and then returning to the page.
Some browser (e.g. Firefox) cache the content type information instead
of re-reading it from the server each time even if the page is
refreshed [1].
[1] On the face of it this behaviour seems rather counter-intuitive,
but perhaps the browser writers have their reasons.
Schiavo
Simon
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