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When you create a form in FrontPage, you can specify that the results should go to a text file, an email address, or both. But what if you want the results to go to two text files or three email addresses? There doesn't seem to be any way to do that without using ASP scripts or similar techniques.
In reality, however, you can specify multiple text files and multiple email addresses; you just have to employ a little FrontPage trickery. We'll show you how in this article.
Sleight of form
The trick to our technique is to create a daisy chain of HTML pages, each of which includes a copy of the same form. We'll chain these pages together by using FrontPage's custom confirmation form feature. When the user submits the form on the first page, the same data will be submitted through the other forms automatically. Let's walk through the technique now.
To get started, launch FrontPage and create a new Web called multiform (or create a directory of the same name in an existing Web). Note that your Web must be hosted on a server that supports the FrontPage server extensions.
Now, create a new page called form.htm. In FrontPage 98's Editor, choose Insert ( Form Field ( One-Line Text Box to create a form with a single field. (In FrontPage 2000, choose Insert I Form I One-Line Text Box.) Next, press [Shift][Enter] to move down a line; then insert a second one-line text box from the Insert menu as before.
Double-click on the first field to open the Text Box Properties dialog box, as shown in Figure A. Type Name in the Name text box. Click OK. Repeat the same steps to name the second field Email. If you'd like, you can add labels to each of the text boxes. When you're...