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Automatic posting (cold fusion?)

is there any way to get a page to automaticly post to a database (like for a hit counter) some thing along the line
of <form action="guest.cfm" method="POST"><input type="hidden" name="Date_Entered" value="CurrentDateTime()"><input type="hidden" name="ClientHost" value="CGI.REMOTE_HOST">

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Michel Plungjan

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Michel Plungjan

PS: if you wish the date to be filled out for you, remove CurrentDateTime() and change the script to read
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var today = new Date();
document.AUTOPOST.Date_Entered.value = today.toString();
document.AUTOPOST.submit();
</SCRIPT>

jagoodie

ASKER

What do you meant about the TARGET="HIDDENFRAME" on the form tag
where do i put it? how does it work?

jagoodie

ASKER

i got it to work but it keeps opening up a new fram for the page. is there a way to get it to not open the frame?

Michel Plungjan

Sorry, I was away all day yesterday...
To target a hidden frame, create the following HTML:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="100%,*">
<FRAME NAME="VISIBLEFRAME" SRC="OriginalPageWithTheFormInIt.html">
<FRAME NAME="HIDDENFRAME" SRC="javascript:' '">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

This will create a frame which is 100% of the screen and another which is the rest (e.g. not there). The javascript:' ' is to initialise it with an empty page.

Hope this helps,

Michel

jagoodie

ASKER

I am sorry, i am not very good with this frames thing. Now where do i put the javascript part? in the page named javascript: ?
thank you for your continued help. :)

jagoodie

ASKER

sorry, nevermind, i got it. (put it in the OriginalPageWithTheFormInIt.html>
thanks again.