Question on creating form

BBarton · 05-14-2006, 09:42 PM

I have a simple form that asks for a persons name and email address to sign up for a newsletter. In my newsletter script, when you want to insert a persons name in a mailing, you use a variable string such as [[FIRSTNAME]].
The problem is that if a person types in their name uncapitalized, thats exactly how the script outputs it. So in some of my mailings it starts like this:
mike, or Dear mike, - very unprofessional. How can I have my form capitalize the name input field before submitting it to my newsletter script regardless of what the user inputs. I have searched all the input attributes to no avail. I suspect it will have to be manipulated with Javascript. Any help will be appreciated.

exam · 05-15-2006, 10:31 AM

If you can use php, try this:
$name = ucfirst($name);

Mrblogs · 05-15-2006, 10:40 AM

Are you using PHP?

If so, then Exam's method will work, or using ucwords($name) would, as that would capitalise the first letter of every word (for instance if their first name is hyphenated)

BBarton · 05-15-2006, 08:07 PM

My server does have php installed. I understand All I have to do is save the web page with the php extension. Here is the code for my form:

<html>
<form action="http://www.automatic-responder.net/cgi-bin/aptires/addforme.cgi" method="post">
<table border="0" cellspacing="3">
<tr><td align="left">
Your Name:</td><td>
<input type="text" name="nametoadd"
size="14">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">
Your E-mail:</td><td>
<input type="text" name="emailtoadd" size="14"></td></tr>
<center><input type=hidden name=reference value="eauf"><input type=hidden name=onfailure value="http://www.igoldmines.com/ga/"><input type=hidden name=onsuccess value="http://www.igoldmines.com/ga/etypage1.htm"> <tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><p align="center"><input type="submit" value="Subscribe!"></p>
</td></tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="username" value="bbarton">
</form></center>

</html>

How do I implement the code in this form?
Thanks!

Mrblogs · 05-16-2006, 03:08 AM

Ahh.. it looks like you want to do the ucwords in the CGI code really then.

The addorme.cgi script is what will require it.

Which is most likely perl, and I'm not too up on Perl script handling.

You could implement the function in Javascript but then it would only work if the user's browser has javascript enabled.