CHM, Forms and CGI

Question

RoboHelp HTML X5.0.1, Build 606
I'm creating an instructional CHM and I would like to add
forms so I can save information about the user progress. I would
like to use the Forms & CGI but the help file for RoboHelp only
gives a brief description of what CGI is. Are there any good books
or web sites that gives extensive tutorial on how to use CGI with
RoboHelp?
In essence I want to create a mini database for each user
that goes through the instructional CHM. I've looked for books on
RoboHelp X5 online but I can't seem to find any. Were there any X5
books ever published?

Answer 1

Here are the basic steps for setting up CGI:
- design a form that accepts input
- write a script or program to process the data from your
form
- in your form, set up a Submit button with a link. The link
is to the program file name, and usually includes the data in the
form of key-value pairs. For an example,
look at the link to the present page:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messagepost.cfm?postaction=reply&catid=449&th readid=1353586&messid=4921766&STARTPAGE=1&parentid=4921766
- on your server, associate the program file name extension
with a script interpreter that can run the program. The first line
of the program has to contain a special statement for the benefit
of the server -- sorry, I can't remember exactly what offhand. The
data passed as key-value pairs is available in an environment
variable.
On a Windows server, you could consider ASP as an alternative
to CGI.