email form

[lovethatbluegrassmusic]

Hi folks! I read the tuts on forms, downloaded
the free email forms on davidundalicia's site.
Followed the instructions explicitly and back-
check them. Still , can't get the contactus form
to find the processingpage form. When I look in
the file manager, all forms are there and the
processingpage form has the php extention.
The contactus form has the proper html ext. and
'action' is set to 'processingpage.php' and
can be reached at: www.baldwincomusic/contactus.html
However, the 'comments' section cannot be accessed.
It is blocked. I may be overlooking something
very basic so please advise!

[davidundalicia]

Re: email form

Brad, I have tried the form and all the fields allow data entry
but on submit, no confirmationpage was available.

This test shows the the processing.php fle was found.

However, when I tried each field with NO data , one at a time
none of the xxxxx_error.html files were found..........

Have you PUBLISHED all the files that ended with .bvp ??

[lovethatbluegrassmusic]

Re: email form

Hello David. Thanks for checking my form. I have
indeed started from scratch about four times now.
I have the latest revision of the form instructions
from your site, the blue with white lettering on the
modifications. I unzipped the zip to a new folder.
I opened files 2,3,4,5,6 in bv and published each.
I opened 7 in 'notepad' and edited the mailto:
to my email address. I saved using 'all files'
then opened the ftp manager and connected
and used drag and dropped it into the public_html
directory.
I created a link nav button on my 'Links' page (contactme)
to link to 'contactus.html' . The form page will
open, but I cannot enter anything into any field
on the form. Please check it again if you will.
If you will send me your special login form,
I'll give you entry into my control panel.
I know others are using your form so it must be
something I'm overlooking. Thanks for your help.
The url to linkspage is: www.baldwincomusic.com/linkspage6.html

[davidundalicia]

Re: email form

Brad:
I have just tested your contact form and everything is working ok.
The auto responder sent me a copy of the 2 messages that I left you.

If you received the 2 emails from me, then email me at the address I left you
on your form.....If you did NOT receive the emails then goto any of my websites and use any of the contactme forms.

[Lincslady]

Re: email form

Sorry to interrupt..ive just finished using your contact form thingy David and it works a treat...thank you ......but i did overlook a few things while doing it ....I thought putting my mistakes on here might help Brad and anyone else that might have problems.

1...Firstly I unzipped the files my docs instead of blue voda.

2....Then I published all the files to my public html file through ftp instead of thro BV....

3. Then I forgot to change the settings in my menu bar ...from contact_us ..to contactus in the links on my nav bar....and republish each page ...doh!

Once I did that it worked a treat ...:o) hope that helps

[davidundalicia]

Re: email form

Good and thoughtfull post LincsLady......

Just a reminder that the first thing to do after unzipping is to READ the following text file.

CONTENTS: 30 june 2006
......... ............

1). file readmenow.txt (This file)

2). File contactus.bvp (Contact form/page)
3). File name_error.bvp (php validated)
4). File email_error.bvp (php validated)
5). File comments_error.bvp (php security added)
6). File Confirmationpage.bvp (Thank you page)

7). File processingpage.php
.................................................

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
..........................

STEP 1 :
........

File Nos. 2 to 6 :
.................................................
Publish as normal to your public.html directory.
.................................................

STEP 2 :
........

File No. 7 : "processingpage.php"

Open in Notepad (or any text editor)

Select "file"
Select "open"
Select "files of type" and change to "ALL Files"
(Above step is most important)
Select "processingpage.php

Change this one line: (keep the double quotes intact)

$mailto = "Enter your email address here";

(keep the double quotes intact)
...........................................

Now SAVE this file in the following manner:

Select "file"
Select "save as"
Select "files of type" and change to "ALL Files"
(Above step is most important)
Select "save"
..................................................

Thats the hard part done..............

STEP 3 :
........

Now all you have to do is to open your BlueVoda FTP program (or any FTP program)
and upload "processingpage.php" to your public.html directory.....................

..........Thats it!.....Now you can test your own Email contact form............

Note1:
......

You can treat any of the 2 to 6 pages, in BV, as if you had created them yourself.

i.e. Change background, add buttons, photos, change the messages etc.
But please do not change the names of the pages as they are referenced by
name in the php script file.


Note2:
......

If you are not happy in changing that 1 line in the php file
then email me with your email address and I will send you the completed php file.

.................................................. ...............................

Have fun

[lovethatbluegrassmusic]

Re: email form

Well, today it seems that the form is working, at least to the point
that I am entering each box and submiting and receiving the
'thankyou' page. However, no emails have been received.
I will go back and re-do the processing page and re-enter my
email address again and ftp the .php page.

[lovethatbluegrassmusic]

Re: email form

Also, when I save as in notepad, 'ANSI' comes up for encoding .
Is this correct? Other choices are Unicode, and UTF-8.

In Wordpad, 'save as', 'all files' is not available as a type.
Only Rich text, text and unicode is available. So, I am using notepad.