Newbies mthorn Posted September 7, 2001 Newbies Share Posted September 7, 2001 I want to conduct a web survey, and import responses into a database as automatically as possible. I don't see anything in the documentation about soliciting data through the web. I'm thinking there must be some way to use standard HTML forms, in which mail is sent to me each time a respondent submits data, and automatically (?) have that data imported into my database. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! (By the way, I know that Dragon Web Surveys can do all this, but I took one look at the price and could only laugh. It's obviously targeted at corporations, and I'm just a poor social scientist.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted September 7, 2001 Share Posted September 7, 2001 I can do such thing almost on any budget. Contact me if you need that fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies mthorn Posted September 9, 2001 Author Newbies Share Posted September 9, 2001 I appreciate the offer, but unfortunately my budget is zero, and the whole thing has to be done in Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith M. Davie Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 You need to learn custom web publishing. You need to know html. You need to get the cdml reference. You need to overcome a learning curve or two. And all of this is going to take a bit of time. Since you have a budget of zero, you can expect to starve to death before you finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyfud Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 Check out http://www.filemaker.com/ and their download section. They have a free CDML reference library to use. You obviously already know HTML or else you wouldn't have posted a topic about wanting to create a form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith M. Davie Posted September 15, 2001 Share Posted September 15, 2001 Tyfud, that he knows html is not obvious. He may intend to use Instant Publishing. He may not know html but may be familiar with an html editor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies mthorn Posted September 15, 2001 Author Newbies Share Posted September 15, 2001 Thank you for the responses. As it happens I do know HTML. I write mostly by hand, but also with the help of PageSpinner, Dreamweaver, and the W3C's validation service. I don't know beans about Java or XML, but my HTML (to be specific, XHTML 1.0 Transitional) is current and clean as a whistle, for what it's worth. (If you want to check it out for yourself, take a look at www.matt-thorn.com ) I've never used Instant Publishing, and probably won't, since I doubt it produces clean HTML. I've downloaded the CDML files you recommended and will begin studying. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyfud Posted September 16, 2001 Share Posted September 16, 2001 Any time Matt! Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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