Problem with submenus and cgi-bin script

sospiri · Post by **sospiri** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:05 pm

I have a problem when using the BigNoseBird contact form script on http://www.sorrentobarcrete.com

Select "Contact Us" from the top-level menu, enter a couple of characters in just one of the fields and press "Submit". This will cause the page error.htm to be displayed. Now mouseover "Photos" on the top-level menu which should at this point display a submenu. Dependent on the browser, an error will occur as follows:-

Internet Explorer 6 will fail to display the submenu and instead display a Javascript runtime error. Checking out the debugger this turns out to be line 22 of the function openSubmenu() in mm_navframes.js which reads: var mNum=mm_tf.getMenuByName(_mi[mm_si][3])

Firefox just fails to display the submenu!

Opera fails to display the submenu and on mouseover displays "address: javascript: void(0)" rather than an address.

I would assume that the error is due to the fact that the browser cannot find either milonic_src.js and/or menu_data_body.js or one of the other two javascript files as referenced from error.htm, possibly because the script calling the page is running from a cgi-bin directory rather than the normal HTML directory. However, prefixing the location of all of these javascript files with the absolute path of "http://www.sorrentobarcrete.com/" makes no difference. Has anyone any thoughts on how to get around this problem please?

Post by **Andy** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:36 pm

You'll need to ensure that you include this inside the formmail script:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="milonic_src.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
  else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="menu_data_body.js"></script>

sospiri · Post by **sospiri** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:51 pm

Inside bnbform.cgi ?????

That just causes an Internal Server Error, presumably because the script is in Perl about which I know absolutely nothing!

Post by **Andy** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:26 pm

email me a copy of the script and I'll take a look, that's the bnbform.cgi file. I'll see what I can do.

sospiri · Post by **sospiri** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:04 pm

Thank you - should be with you now!