Autoresponder emails?

[FTinocoJr]

My name is Frank. I have a question regarding the autoresponder code
and what I want the autoresponder to do for me.

I've set up the autoresponder already and I do get the imputed text
in the fields on the forms of my website so that's ok.

My question is, how do i get a sample message when I enter my own
info on the forms? I want to get my own created message to see if I
did the email correct with formating and such.

When i did this on another website I was also getting the sample
message sent to me along with the entered text of the prospect and
now I can't make it send me my messages for my approval!

What could I be doing wrong?

P. S.
I did try your version about inserting the code in the start page and all
I got was a confirmation that I filled the form and that's ok but I would
prefer my prepared message that I created in the control panel under
autoresponder, by the way i created also a main email account with that
autoresponder address as instructed, so I don't know no mo!

Here is my website, it's a two field form at the bottom of every page.
http://www.TheFiveStarMarketingGroup.com and the contact us page.

I want to thank you ahead of time just in case you can make this happen
for me, I'm just out of ideas! I just wanted to see my own email first
before I sent it out.

Thank you
Francisco Tinoco Jr

Opps!

I forgot I do have this code in my contact us thank you page

page html - beginning of body -

<?PHP
$mailto = "franktjr@thefivestarmarketinggroup.com";
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
if ($email == "") {
$email = $mailto;
}
$mailsubj = "From the Contact us Page";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form :\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
if ($key!="submit")
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>


That's it!
Thanks

[mrmagoo144]

Re: Autoresponder emails?

it looks like you have not made the form correctly. if i go to you contact us page, the link shows html as the extension. if you have made the form with bv you have to save it with a php extension. also you have not made any box necessary to fill out. further if i submit the form, it does not bring me to a thank you page. i'm not an expert when it comes to forms, but i would advise you to use the form wizard tool and watch the tutorials a few times. you seem to be worried about autoresponder and you don't have the form working correctly to start with.

[FTinocoJr]

Re: Autoresponder emails?

Hi, mrmagoo144

it looks like you have not made the form correctly. if i go to you contact us page, the link shows html as the extension.

Ok, but I've done them before exactly the same way for other sites and they worked fine. What's changed?

Also, but if you fill out the form it will go to a php next page as it says on the tuturials.

if you have made the form with bv you have to save it with a php extension. Ok, I'll try it.

also you have not made any box necessary to fill out.
This I don't know how to do yet, can you please tell me how?

further if i submit the form, it does not bring me to a thank you page.
I know and I will do it. right now they are just re-direct back to the home pages.

i'm not an expert when it comes to forms, but i would advise you to use the form wizard tool and watch the tutorials a few times.
I have and I did everything as it says! - I'll see them again!

you seem to be worried about autoresponder and you don't have the form working correctly to start with. That's why I'm here, hello! : )

Ok, so to summerize,
1. If I change to a php on my contact page, what about all the other pages that have that two field form, I can't change them all to a php extension could I?
2. Thank you pages, ok, done.
3. Also I need to know how to make the pages nessary to fill the boxes

Thanks

[Karen Mac]

Re: Autoresponder emails?

If you HAD watched the tutorials and used the wizard your page would automatically be php. They will NOT work correctly as HTML.

Right click on the page and choose properties, and change it back to php....then save as the default .bvp If you are saving as .html thats another reason for it NOT to work

Yes.. if they have a form they have to be .php extension....all the pages.
Right click on the form field, choose properties, and on the last tab there you can select your verifcation..again..this is done in the tutorial...

Maybe you were eating pizza instead of doing ...stopping the vid..trying it...starting the vid...etc.. I dont know.

Karen

[mrmagoo144]

Re: Autoresponder emails?

if you have done some forms on other websites, perhaps they were done with a different website builder. if you are using the form wizard, the procedure to build the form is very well explained. if you are not using the form wizard, then i can understand why it will not work. when i get frustrated a bit, i move at a snails pace, slow down, watch the video, step by step and in the long run it will be faster. hope to see the results soon.