Email Forms

**Anonymous** · 05-14-2005, 09:54 PM

Sending (client sided) forms from a PC works like this:
Your browser creates a email message and will use your default email client to send this message (using MAPI).
To configure your default email client:
Internet Explorer Menu->Tools->Internet Options->Programs->Email
Select your email client (prefferable Outlook Express).
Also make sure it's the default MAPI client:
In Outlook Express->Menu->Tools->Options->General Tab
and click This application is the default Mail Handler ->Make Default

If you like you can read the following internet articles for more details:
http://webdesign.about.com/cs/forms/a/aamailtobroke.htmor

Error - Office.com

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;186229

or

Error - Office.com

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279460

But since you're using Vodahost you can alos use a PHP script to create a more reliable solution.

**Anonymous** · 05-14-2005, 09:58 PM

I have created an example script for you that processes your form succesfully using a generic PHP script.

Instructions:
Change the form properties (in BlueVoda) to:
Action: FEEDBACK.PHP
Method: POST
EncodingType:
(remove the text/plain, so the field becomes empty)

Now create a new file using Notepad and call it: FEEDBACK.PHP
Enter the following code into the file:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Thank you for your feedback</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H2>Thank you for your feedback!</H2>
<?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "feedback@yourdomain.com";
$mailsubj = "Feedback form";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) 
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; 
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>
</BODY>
</HEAD>

Upload this file to your domain.

**Judy Khoo** · 05-27-2005, 02:09 PM

Submitting form for email

Hi

I have used the example script you gave and I have no problem in getting the mail sent out.

However, when I open the mail from my mail box, I find the following message was sent:

Values submitted from web site form:
Name : test
Email : judyksp********.com
S1 : test
Submit : Send

and the sender is unknown.

how can i correct this to reflect the right information from my email form?

I have three fields in the form I created:

a. Name - where the user is to type his/her name
b. email - where the user is to type his/her email address
c. Message - a free text area for the person to type the message

I am extremely new to web hosting and scripting. I have no knowledge of PHP either. Hope you can assist.

**Pablo** · 05-27-2005, 03:26 PM

Since the email is send from the server where your domain is running on you can't see the actually sender (since it's the vodahost server that sent you the message when the form is submitted). But your visitors should enter there email address in one of the fields you create with BlueVoda.

Looking at the data you received in the message, it looks like you already have a field for the email address?

Pablo

**Judy Khoo** · 05-27-2005, 06:11 PM

So what I saw in the contents of the mail is what the visitor would have typed, right? And if I wish to reply to them, it would be to the email that was displayed in the message, right?

Thanks.

**Pablo** · 05-27-2005, 06:41 PM

Absolutely correct.

**Judy Khoo** · 05-28-2005, 06:27 AM

Thank you very much for your assistance.

I have one more request and hope you can help.

Currently, your scripts returns a message on successful submission on a new page. How do I get to change it to show on the same page but perhaps at the bottom of the screen? Or if I have to do it on a new page, how do I get to format the page to look better?

**Pablo** · 05-28-2005, 07:31 AM

There is currently no easy way to do this, but here something that might work for you:

1. Create a new page with BlueVoda and save is as 'feedback.bvp'.
2. Select View->Page HTML from the menu
3. Select the Inside Body tag and enter this code:

Code:

<?PHP 
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email]; 
$mailto = "feedback@yourdomain.com"; 
$mailsubj = "Feedback form"; 
$mailhead = "From: $email\n"; 
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS); 
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n"; 
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) 
{ 
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; 
} 
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead); 
?>

4. Do the usual page formatting.
5. Publish the page to your VodaHost account.
6. Login to your cPanel and select File Manager to rename feedback.html to feedback.php
Of course you can also use your favorite FTP client to rename the file.

Pablo

**Judy Khoo** · 05-28-2005, 07:37 AM

Thanks. I will try it. Meanwhile, just a question - do I have to remove the earlier feedback.php that was created and replace with this new php?

**VodaHost** · 05-28-2005, 08:15 AM

yes please

**Judy Khoo** · 05-28-2005, 01:56 PM

Thank you for the script. It works.

**busymomz** · 06-09-2005, 02:23 AM

Question about this topic

I'm a bit new to all this, and I happened to stumble across your discussion which was just what I was looking for, and I needed some help.

I have tinkered with the code here and there getting farther and farther along, until I have hit a barrier. When I press my submit button, I get a message that says "No Input File Specified".

Any Idea what to do?

Thanks

**VodaHost** · 06-10-2005, 05:23 PM

have you named your php file correctly?

**busymomz** · 06-14-2005, 07:38 PM

OK, I figured it all out, and now I'm up and running.
However, I would like to create another type of form but am not sure how to do it.
I just need to be able to have the user define what email the form is sent to.
Is this possible?

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