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System Values

System Values are reserved variable names which can capture special information, either from the server or from a browser accessing your site. They work similar to form input variables or Forms Processor parameters. When you include system value names in email messages, output to files, or HTML pages which are generated by the Forms Processor, the name of the system value will be substituted for the system value name.

For instance, if you have a form configuration file which generates an email message to be sent to you at userid@webcom.com, you can include the system value names $date and $time in order to grab the date and time from the server at the moment the email is geminated. To illustrate, a form configuration file such as:

format email name@isp.com from userid@webcom.com subject "Someone Filled Out My Form!" 

This email was sent on $date at $time.

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An email message that was generated by this configuration file would look something like this:

To: name@isp.com
From: userid@webcom.com
Subject: Someone Filled Out My Form!

This email was sent on 11/18/98 at 12:32am.

List of System Values

The following system values are currently available:

Demonstration

As stated above, System Values are accessed by including the name of the System Value in a document (email, file. or screen) which is generated by the Forms Processor. Thus, these values can only be accessed from the server or the browser when a form is submitted. In order to demonstrate this, click on , which will submit a form. The form is designed to return a screen including all of the available system values.
The exact configuration file which generates the resulting screen is as follows: 
format screen

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>System Value Demonstration</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>

<h1>Here are the system values grabbed by the form:</h1>

The current time: <b>$time</b><br>
The date is: <b>$date</b><br>
The email address your browser reported: <b>$HTTP_FROM</b><br>
The program used to download the page: <b>$HTTP_USER_AGENT</b><br>
The domain name you are accessing us from: <b>$REMOTE_HOST</b><br>
The IP address you are accessing us from: <b>$REMOTE_ADDR</b><p>

<a href="/help/form_proc/system_values.shtml">Return</a> to t
he System Values page.<P>

</BODY> </HTML>
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