form mail question

[Beaver]

I want to use an html page on my own computer with three check boxes a text box and a submit button. Instead of using the normal form mail and having the info sent to an Email address I want to save the file to my hard drive instead. anybody got any idea how to do it as every attempt I make fails miserably.

I want the results of this form bellow to be sent to c:\formresults\results.txt

<input type="checkbox" name="C1" value="ON"><input type="checkbox" name="C2" value="ON"><input type="checkbox" name="C3" value="ON"><input type="text" name="T1" size="20"><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1">

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

[kanga]

you would have to code your own script for that

kanga

[Beaver]

Aghhh Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

There must be some way to make html interact with your own computer.

Any clue as to where I should be looking for the software I need to create one of these scripts?

I don't care what type of file it creates or what format its in but I must have a web page that will send the results of a form to my own computer and not to another web site.
What does the receiving web site have that I don't? ... can I fool Explorer into thinking my drive is a server?
Things like this want to make me kick bill gates in the nuts http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/frown.gif

[tmknight]

What the hell does Bill Gates have to do with you not being able to run perl scripts on your desktop?

If you use windows install iis or apache. Or install linux/unix and apache. Install perl 5.0+. Install the script, write the html form and set your browser to local address. You'll get your form and it will save to your hard drive.

That's a lot of work for nothing.

I use a modified form mail script that saves data into a tab delimited file for download. I have it installed on my server though, not my laptop. http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[toker]

Actually it can be done with IIS and VB too without a need for perl and there are tools to do it but i hate VB so good luck finding such a software.

[Beaver]

he he I just like to blame the devil when things don't work. (who wouldn't like to kick bill in the nuts?)
By the looks of things I will have to change my strategy as I assumed that html would easily send data to my hard drive without having to be a bloody server Grrrrrr.
I have a database of gallery url's and software that will generate html pages with links on the left followed by checkboxes so that when i view a gallery I could just tick off the checkboxes that best fit the gallery descriptions.

At the end of the gallery review I was going to hit the submit button and save the data to a file that could be read and then used to re-index the gallery url's.

I will just have to rewrite the program to display the links and pass them to the browser instead, I just thought it would have been easier in html.