[Seaside] Hopelessly stupid newbie question

[Randy Siler]

I need to write a simple web application that at the very least 
collects data from a web form.
Of course I'd love to use Squeak and I see many technologies in Squeak 
that appear more than adequate for my needs.

I've worked through tutorial and chapters in books and tried adapting 
what I find to what I need,
but when I try to do what I want to do, I find I get lost before I get 
it done, probably because I want to do something simpler or different 
from the tutorials.

I had thought that Seaside was the way to go and worked through it 
before starting out to build my simple little form processor. I build 
my form in a WYSIWYG editor and got to the point of specifying the form 
action. When I tried to divine from seaside examples I started to get 
the sense that maybe I had misconceptualized  seaside as being suited 
to functioning as a simple form cgi that would allow me to easily get 
the form data from a web form. Specifically, the form actions specified 
in the seaside examples always contain those numbers (I forget what you 
call them) that I couldn't imagine supplying (which makes me think that 
in seaside you don't do it like I was thinking--make a form in an 
editor). (Do you always dynamically generate the forms from seaside?)

Am I right about this? Should I be using something else if I just want 
a simple form cgi in Squeak?

Or can I use seaside in a much simpler albeit less powerful way until I 
get my feet wet?


Very much appreciate any insight

Randy