Hello all, I'm a fresh meat Noob with a question:
I am attempting to port an existing static site to Mambo 4.5.1, the existing site features six "calculators" that take a variety of user inputs, perform a series of fairly involved calculations and echo back to the user a page displaying the results of the calculations. (You can see the old site calculators at
http://www.atlantic-ozone.com/calcul...alculators.htm). If I try referring to a wrapper containing the old script, I get an output of the php script as a text file. Ditto for about every other combination of front page/results page I've tried.
I can make it work with "static" (com_static component) but I lose all the features of the cms such as my pathway, print, email, and pdf functions, [Back] button etc.
The add-on "facile forms" looked like a horror story to implement in this situation and there did not appear to be a way for it to output the form results back to the user's screen. In this particular case I have no desire to clutter up my DB with user input data and do not need to capture it for any reasonable purpose.
Is there a way to incorporate my front page (simply a form) and the results page (php script ending with an echo command) that preserves the functionality detailed above?