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Business card link on my web site..how to?

John

2007-06-27, 3:17 am

I have a web site that gets a fair amount of traffic by a regular
audience. I want to have a page where they can drop their "business
card". This would be a page where they can add personal information
such as: what type of work they do, their web address, what part of
the metro area they work in, their contact information, etc.

I hate creating HTML forms since I hard code everything.

Any ideas on the best way to implement this?

I'd like to be able to let them add their own info without me having
to moderate every single detail.

Thanks in advance.

Adrienne Boswell

2007-06-29, 6:24 pm

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed John <geotrader@yahoo.com> writing
in news:1182911780.101052.193090@k29g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:

> I have a web site that gets a fair amount of traffic by a regular
> audience. I want to have a page where they can drop their "business
> card". This would be a page where they can add personal information
> such as: what type of work they do, their web address, what part of
> the metro area they work in, their contact information, etc.
>
> I hate creating HTML forms since I hard code everything.

The only way you are going to get this information is with a form.

>
> Any ideas on the best way to implement this?

Best thing to do is post the form contents to a database.

>
> I'd like to be able to let them add their own info without me having
> to moderate every single detail.

Do some client side checking (required fields), and server side checking
(in case some users don't have client side checking available, or what
can't be checked client side).

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

HTH

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Brendan Gillatt

2007-06-30, 6:18 pm

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:36:20 -0700, John <geotrader@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I have a web site that gets a fair amount of traffic by a regular
>audience. I want to have a page where they can drop their "business
>card". This would be a page where they can add personal information
>such as: what type of work they do, their web address, what part of
>the metro area they work in, their contact information, etc.
>
>I hate creating HTML forms since I hard code everything.
>
>Any ideas on the best way to implement this?
>
>I'd like to be able to let them add their own info without me having
>to moderate every single detail.
>
>Thanks in advance.

As Adrienne points out, you will _have_ to use forms - they are the
recognised way for visitors to interact with websites.

I suggest you add a file upload input to allow people to upload a
vCard file if they don't want to manually enter all of their details
and have some CGI to extract the information.
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