howto: combining form output from one of more fields to a single line

am using a simple form where clients need to imput a date of birth and a
date a gift is given.

the output is sent using a mailto post form with encrypt/text, etc... all of
the eventual output is eventually printed to a personalized product. the
problem is that i cannot get customers to fill in the correct wysiwyg data
in a text field used for these dates, and i subsequently have to take too
much time to correct their input.

<form action="mailto:xxx (AT) xxx (DOT) xx?subject=book" method="post"
enctype="text/plain">
blah...blah...blah...
<select...
<option...
</select...
blah...blah...blah...
</form>

i have created sets of form list/menus, one for the day, one for the month
and one for the year, and what i end up receiving, for example, is:

Date In Book=7
Date In Book=June
Date In Book=2004
Birth Date=20
Birth Date=August
Birth Date=1999

is there a way using just html, or even a little simple java, to get to
combine this into a single output, using each of the three selections and
their options, and combining them at submission???

what i want to receive is:

Date In Book=7 June 2004
Birth Date=20 August 1999

"Ikkeboeken" <ikkeboeken (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

form action="mailto:xxx (AT) xxx (DOT) xx?subject=book" method="post"
enctype="text/plain"

Anything that results from that is implementation-dependent - the
construct is _guaranteed_ to cause huge amounts of lost form
submissions. When it happens to cause something to appear in someone's
mailbox, it is guaranteed to be in a rather messy format.

Please learn the basics of forms:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

i appreciate your refeence to the use of the mailto: code. however, it's a
'better than a kick to the head' temporary solution to not having any server
to host any other for the short term. but regarding the question. is it
possible to concatenate the result of the three lists to one?
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i have created sets of form list/menus, one for the day, one for the month
and one for the year, and what i end up receiving, for example, is:

Date In Book=7
Date In Book=June
Date In Book=2004
Birth Date=20
Birth Date=August
Birth Date=1999

is there a way using just html, or even a little simple java, to get to
combine this into a single output, using each of the three selections and
their options, and combining them at submission???

what i want to receive is:

Date In Book=7 June 2004
Birth Date=20 August 1999
--------------------

cheers,
KÅTMÅ

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full of useful resources. it will save me many many hours of searches.


"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> wrote

"Ikkeboeken" <ikkeboeken (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

form action="mailto:xxx (AT) xxx (DOT) xx?subject=book" method="post"
enctype="text/plain"

Anything that results from that is implementation-dependent - the
construct is _guaranteed_ to cause huge amounts of lost form
submissions. When it happens to cause something to appear in someone's
mailbox, it is guaranteed to be in a rather messy format.

Please learn the basics of forms:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

Ikkeboeken wrote:

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

i appreciate your refeence to the use of the mailto: code. however, it's a
'better than a kick to the head' temporary solution to not having any
server to host any other for the short term. but regarding the question.
is it possible to concatenate the result of the three lists to one?

Easily - just do it in the server side script you aren't using.

$combo = $list1 . $list2 . $list3;

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

"David Dorward" <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Ikkeboeken wrote:

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

i appreciate your refeence to the use of the mailto: code. however, it's
a
'better than a kick to the head' temporary solution to not having any
server to host any other for the short term. but regarding the question.
is it possible to concatenate the result of the three lists to one?

Easily - just do it in the server side script you aren't using.

$combo = $list1 . $list2 . $list3;

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/

but not possible using the html, or some little bit of java?

Ikkeboeken wrote:

Easily - just do it in the server side script you aren't using.

but not possible using the html, or some little bit of java?

With HTML - no.
With Java? Easily ... if you are using JSP to process your form.

I expect you mean JavaScript though, and while I think it might be possible,
its reduces the reliability of your form even further.

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

"David Dorward" <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Ikkeboeken wrote:
Easily - just do it in the server side script you aren't using.

but not possible using the html, or some little bit of java?

With HTML - no.
With Java? Easily ... if you are using JSP to process your form.

I expect you mean JavaScript though, and while I think it might be
possible,
its reduces the reliability of your form even further.

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/

jep... java 'script' for now. something more server sided later. i realize
it will not be the best solution. could you perhaps steer me, however, to a
script or site where i might find something to use as a temporary tool?

"Ikkeboeken" <ikkeboeken (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

"David Dorward" <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:c05ios$hfh$1$8302bc10 (AT) news (DOT) demon.co.uk...
Ikkeboeken wrote:
Easily - just do it in the server side script you aren't using.

but not possible using the html, or some little bit of java?

With HTML - no.
With Java? Easily ... if you are using JSP to process your form.

I expect you mean JavaScript though, and while I think it might be
possible,
its reduces the reliability of your form even further.

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/

jep... java 'script' for now. something more server sided later. i realize
it will not be the best solution. could you perhaps steer me, however, to
a
script or site where i might find something to use as a temporary tool?

anybody???