Html hidden fields question

I’m an html coder and I want to identify from what website a user has submitted a contact form. The contact form is an <!–#include>file (.shtml) and this contact form <!–#include>file is being used on two different websites. Since it’s only one file (<!–#include>) I thought about adding two hiddenfields to the <!–#include> contact form with IDs of the two different sites:

&lt;input type="hidden" data-id="new_student_signup" name="new_student_signup" value="" /&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" data-id="existing_student_signup" name="existing_student_signup" value="" /&gt;

But I’m not sure this will work since it’s only one file. Here’s why:

  • If its just one <!–#include>file, how is the form going to know what site it came from?
  • Does it require a programming scripting language to get information from a hidden field in html, and if so, will my adding the two hidden input fields (with the “data-id”=“” attribute) be sufficient for the html part of the <!–#include> file?
  • Should I just create a new <!–#include>file for the other website and add the hiddenfield to that file?

    Example:
    for the hidden field “new_student_signup” <!–#include virtual="new_students/existing_student_signup.shtml>
    for the hidden field “existing_student_signup” <!–#include virtual="existing_students/new_student_signup.shtml>

Thanks

SHTML is built SERVER SIDE— what is sent to the client (user’s browser) is flat HTML no different than if you cut/paste that file in to replace your <!–#include>

NO difference! Ok, try this. Make a page using your SHTML include… put it on your server, load it in your browser, and hit “view source”.

Though for what you want to do with it – I’d either switch to a real scripting language to change a hidden field using a variable or parameter to a function, or use multiple includes to build the form.