Circumventing Form Submission Processor

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  1. memco, May 21, 2009

    memco macrumors 6502

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    I have taken over someone else's site, and the code is a terrible mess. there's a form that half-works, but for some reason the "thank you" page is AWOL. The site is built on a combo of front page and dreamweaver, and is referencing a non-existent directory. I can't really make heads or tails of the submission process so I plan on rebuilding it. In the meantime, this is a live site that needs to function without an error page. Any ideas on how I can manage to send the form data, but not follow the whole process through to an error page?
     
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  2. Cabbit, May 21, 2009

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    Make a new form submission script and point the form page action at this new script.
     
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  3. angelwatt, May 21, 2009

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    Pretty much. You either have to have to write something yourself, or learn the existing code well enough to intercept the problem and give a temp fix for now. If you're able to post some of that code we may be able to lend a hand. it sounds like it might make it most of the way through the script so it may be relatively easily to give a temp fix.
     
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  4. rickiac, May 21, 2009

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    Maybe this will help

    I use a cgi script provided by the host, but, after the code for the submit and reset buttons I have the following line to redirect to another page:

    <input name="redirect" type="hidden" id="redirect" value="page.html" />
     
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