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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am
working on a very simple “feedback” type form for my site. I
realize this can be achieved with the collector or other intermediately complex
means, but for this site I need something very light weight and simple.
All I need is a table of “Subject”,”Email address” to
be read from a file rather than hiding the values in the form. Basically
the method that renders the form reads the file and picks up the subjects to
make a drop down, then when submitted it matches the subject to the appropriate
email address. If it’s not a valid subject it drops the request,
and only sends email to the right person. If this were perl on a
traditional web server I would have done this in like 60 seconds. As it
is I can’t figure out how to read in the data from the text file so it
goes into an array properly. I was hoping it might be as simple as doing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>file_name<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>subject1,email1@host.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>subject2,email2@host.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>subject3,email3@host2.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>method<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>…
Form header and fields<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><select><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><dtml-call
file_name><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><dtml-in
file_name><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
<dtml-let keytosplit=sequence-item<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
feedback_name="_.string.split(keytosplit, ',')[0]"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
email_address="_.string.split(keytosplit, ',')[1]"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
<option value=”<dtml-var feedback_name>”><dtml-var feedback_name></select><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
</dtml-let><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'></dtml-in><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>However
it treats file_name as a string and won’t let me <dtml-in> over
that. Is there a way to easily convert the contents of the file to a line
by line input for a <dtml-in >statement, or some other quick and dirty
way to do this? I’ve come up with some more complex ways with adding
a header character to each line to split on, with some form of loop through it
all, but turning the other file into a set for <dtml-let> seems to be the
most straight forward way to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I’ve
come up with half a dozen other ways to handle this that include MySQL, or
other products, but I really would like it to be as simple as possible with as
few external dependencies as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>---</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Allen
Brokken</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>IAT
Services - ISAM</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University</span></font></st1:PlaceType><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Missouri</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="mailto:brokkena@missouri.edu">brokkena@missouri.edu</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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