How to use python or mod_python file to handle HTML form?

Wed Jul 28 10:21:20 EDT 2004

Hi Nancy,

Please answer the following questions:

1) Do you have access to a web server?			[yes / no]
2) Do you have access to a SMTP server?		    [yes / no]

If you answered "no" to any of the following questions above, this code 
sample will not work for you.  Why?

1) You must have access to a web server in order for the form to be 
processed.
2) You must have access to an SMTP server in order to send e-mail on the 
Internet.  Without this, you are toast.

Byron
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Nancy wrote:

> Hi, Guys,
>    I am new to Python. I am trying to following the example on 
>    http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/tut-pub.html  
>    In this example, it gives the following html code,
>     <form action="form.py/email" method="POST">
>       Name:    <input type="text" name="name"><br>
>       Email:   <input type="text" name="email"><br>
>       Comment: <textarea name="comment" rows=4 cols=20></textarea><br>
>       <input type="submit">
>   </form>
> ===============
>   And form.py:
> ==============
> import smtplib
> WEBMASTER = "webmaster"   # webmaster e-mail
> SMTP_SERVER = "localhost" # your SMTP server
> def email(req, name, email, comment):
>         if not (name and email and comment):
>         return "A required parameter is missing, \
>                please go back and correct the error"
>      msg = """\
> From: %s
> Subject: feedback
> To: %s
> I have the following comment:
> %s
> Thank You,
> %s
> """ % (email, WEBMASTER, comment, name)
>     conn = smtplib.SMTP(SMTP_SERVER)
>     conn.sendmail(email, [WEBMASTER], msg)
>     conn.quit()
>     # provide feedback to the user
>     s = """\
> <html>
> Dear %s,<br>
> Thank You for your kind comments, we
> will get back to you shortly.
> </html>""" % name
>     return s
> =====================
>   My environment is
>   1) Apache 2.0 server runs on WinXP Pro using 8080 port (IIS runs at
> same time on 80 port)
>   2) I don't have any permission to access any SMTP server.
>   3) I don't want to install any SMTP server on my PC.
>   Now the question is,
>   I cann't run above example code since I don't have SMTP server on my
> PC. How can I use my form.py to handle HTML form?
>  
>    Thanks a lot.
> 
> Nancy