CGI Email

Cgiemail is a back end processing program for HTML forms. It was written at MIT and has been installed and is available for use on both "www.nau.edu" and "www2.nau.edu" (jan).

Using Cgiemail, the web developer can gather information via an HTML form from web users who are requesting more information, ordering services, applying for services or whatever. Cgiemail gathers up the information submitted on the form by the user and packages that information within an email message which can be sent to any email address. The information contained within the body of the email can be custom formatted by the developer using what is known as a template file. Using the information input on the form, Cgiemail uses the template file as a template for the output, i. e., email.

For more information on cgiemail and how it works, consult the online user's guide at MIT. For an example of cgiemail and how it works, check out the "order a pizza" form.

If the need for multiple forms, or a chain of forms application should arise, Cgiemail has been extended to handle this case. Check the chain forms documentation page for more info. This application uses Cgiemail as the final step in the form processing and a new, customized script, which handles the passing of information from form to form.