question re handling form data

[Richard Crist]

(My apologies if this is the wrong group for this post.)

Is there any existing software that can take data from my web forms and
automatically put them into a document on my PC, such that, for each
submission, the data from one of the fields determines where in the document
the data from the other fields will appear?

For instance, suppose that a visitor to my web site submits this data:
"breed" field: "welsh terrier"
"comment" field: "My favorite breed."
"name" field: "Mike from Springfield"

Is there an application that will retrieve this data, and will put the
comment and the name into my document under the already-existing heading,
"Welsh Terriers"?

Thanks

Richard Crist

[William Tasso]

Richard Crist <pt...@bestweb.net> wrote:

> (My apologies if this is the wrong group for this post.)

Seems OnTopic but this is a very low traffic group - even the spam is tame.

> Is there any existing software that can take data from my web forms and
> automatically put them into a document on my PC, such that, for each
> submission, the data from one of the fields determines where in the
> document
> the data from the other fields will appear?
>
> For instance, suppose that a visitor to my web site submits this data:
> "breed" field: "welsh terrier"
> "comment" field: "My favorite breed."
> "name" field: "Mike from Springfield"
>
> Is there an application that will retrieve this data,

Web server /is/ your PC or remotely hosted?

> and will put the
> comment and the name into my document

What format is your document?

> under the already-existing heading,
> "Welsh Terriers"?

Whatever script handles the form processing on the web server can do many
things but I don't know of any forms processors with the crystal ball
option.

I can think of several ways to achieve what you want - the best solution
cannot be determined with the available information.

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William Tasso