HTML and .cfm

[DanielLee]

Hi,

| build simple websites using note pad and HTML 4.01 transitional. I now have a customer who wants me to move his website (which was created with Cold Fusion) over to my server .

| have saved the entire website one page at a time and created the necessary folders for the photos and changed all but one page of the website to HTML 4.01. I had to change most of the file names by using an underscore in place of ? and = signs so I could save it to my hard drive. The entire website is now working with the exception of one page (the request Information page).

The “request info” page has a place for people to put comments and enter their name, state (from a drop down dialog box) etc.

The old webmaster sent me a bunch of files, everything that is not a .jpeg or a .gif file has “filename.cfm“

The main question is how do I get the “request Information” page to work?

Any assistance appreciated, thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Daniel

[clio]

A link would be helpful, so we can understand what you're talking about. I'm not quite sure what you mean by the 'request info' page. My guess is that it is scripting and cannot be converted to HTML and still be functional. But let's have a looksie.

[jason]

CFM stands for ColdFusion Markup. CFM files are script files that were written in ColdFusion. The JPC servers do not support ColdFusion.

In get info from a user, the user submits a form from a web page. You seem to have that page working already. They submit the form to a script that runs on the server, puts the results in a database, sends an email message, or something like that, and then (usually) generates a new html page "on-the-fly." The request info page probably has a form on it, and if you look at the html code for that form, it probably looks something like <form action="something.cfm" method="post">. The something.cfm is the script that would do the form processing.

Depending on what you want to do with the info you collect from that form there could already be a script available for you to use. Could you provide a little more detail about what it is supposed to do, and we'll try to help you out.

--Jason

[DanielLee]

Hi,

Thank you so much for responding to my post Clio, I didn't respond because I was not notified that someone had responded to my post. Either that or I did get notified and the email notification got lost in the emails I have been doing back and forth trying to keep my website online. I am sure the poeple at Jaguar hav had their hands full as well.

Thank you also Jason for the response. Here is a link to the page I am trying to implement (if the site is up at the moment)

http://www.lamanzanilla.info/request.html

I was going to post the html for that page is below but I got a notice that it was over the limit for the length this message is allowed to be, so I hope the site is up for you to check it.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Sincerely,


Daniel