How to submit a form to email (Contact Us Page)

[jpruss]

Hi,

I've noticed several threads around here; with everyone asking the same question.

Basically, you have a page with a "Contact US" form and when you try hitting submit you are not getting any email messages.

This maybe because the free-space is not doing SMTP, it is turned off, or your email system thinks the message is SPAM.

Whatever, the reason I have put together simple form to email program - FREE for all users of FREE-SPACE.

Here's how to use it:

Step #1) Go Here and Register http://www.bwebcentral.com/utils/form-email-setup.php

**Be sure to put the exact page that your contact us page will be called in the "Website Form" field. Otherwise it will not work

Step #2) After sign-up you will get an email with a secret key

Step #3) Add the code below to your contact us page (remember to replace YOUR-SECRET-KEY below with the secret key you get in the email

<H1>Contact Us</H1>

<P>

Please fill out the form below to send us a message.

</P>

<TABLE BORDER=0>
<FORM ACTION="http://www.bwebcentral.com/utils/auto-form.php" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" Name="SecretKey" Value="YOUR-SECRET-KEY">

<TD>Your Name: </TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><INPUT TYPE="text" Name="YourName" Value=""></TD><TR>

<TD>Your Email:</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"> <INPUT TYPE="text" Name="FromAddr"></INPUT></TD><TR>

<TD COLSPAN="2">
<B>Your Message</B><BR>
<TEXTAREA ROWS=5 COLS=80 Name="TheBody"></TEXTAREA>
<P><BR>
Verification:<INPUT Type="Text" Name="VerifyCode" Size=8>
<script><!--
a = Math.random();
document.writeln("<IMG Width='100' Height='100' SRC=\"http://www.bwebcentral.com/randimg.php?var=sss&dummy=" + a + "\">");
--></script>
Type the letters you see in the box to the left. <A TARGET="_new" 
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha">What's This?</A>

<P ALIGN="CENTER">
<INPUT TYPE="Submit" Name="Submit" Value="Send Message">
</P>
</FORM>

That's it, go to the page you just created and try to submit a message!
All of the items contained on the form will be emailed to the page you setup when you registered. You can have multiple form pages, but each will require a separate registration and thus a separate secret key

You can add as many form fields as you like, but you cannot remove the CAPTCHA (Spam prevention tool)



If you want an autoresponse sent when submit submits the form you will have to create a text file on your server containing the autoresponding text you would like to have emailed back to your users.

Hope you enjoy it !

[mrgrau]

Hi, thanks for your info, but I'm not sure how to insert the secret code I received after I registered on the site you mention.

My form is at http://mrgrau.xf-s.com/Online-Form.php

Hi,

I've noticed several threads around here; with everyone asking the same question.

Basically, you have a page with a "Contact US" form and when you try hitting submit you are not getting any email messages.

This maybe because the free-space is not doing SMTP, it is turned off, or your email system thinks the message is SPAM.

Whatever, the reason I have put together simple form to email program - FREE for all users of FREE-SPACE.

Here's how to use it:

Step #1) Go Here and Register http://www.bwebcentral.com/utils/form-email-setup.php

**Be sure to put the exact page that your contact us page will be called in the "Website Form" field. Otherwise it will not work

Step #2) After sign-up you will get an email with a secret key

Step #3) Add the code below to your contact us page (remember to replace YOUR-SECRET-KEY below with the secret key you get in the email

<H1>Contact Us</H1>

<P>

Please fill out the form below to send us a message.

</P>

<TABLE BORDER=0>
<FORM ACTION="http://www.bwebcentral.com/utils/auto-form.php" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" Name="SecretKey" Value="YOUR-SECRET-KEY">

<TD>Your Name: </TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"><INPUT TYPE="text" Name="YourName" Value=""></TD><TR>

<TD>Your Email:</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT"> <INPUT TYPE="text" Name="FromAddr"></INPUT></TD><TR>

<TD COLSPAN="2">
<B>Your Message</B><BR>
<TEXTAREA ROWS=5 COLS=80 Name="TheBody"></TEXTAREA>
<P><BR>
Verification:<INPUT Type="Text" Name="VerifyCode" Size=8>
<script><!--
a = Math.random();
document.writeln("<IMG Width='100' Height='100' SRC=\"http://www.bwebcentral.com/randimg.php?var=sss&dummy=" + a + "\">");
--></script>
Type the letters you see in the box to the left. <A TARGET="_new" 
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha">What's This?</A>

<P ALIGN="CENTER">
<INPUT TYPE="Submit" Name="Submit" Value="Send Message">
</P>
</FORM>

That's it, go to the page you just created and try to submit a message!
All of the items contained on the form will be emailed to the page you setup when you registered. You can have multiple form pages, but each will require a separate registration and thus a separate secret key

You can add as many form fields as you like, but you cannot remove the CAPTCHA (Spam prevention tool)



If you want an autoresponse sent when submit submits the form you will have to create a text file on your server containing the autoresponding text you would like to have emailed back to your users.

Hope you enjoy it !

[jpruss]

Hi,

Basically you have to go into your site editor, and go to the page with your form.

When you open it up you should see a little tab called "Source", or "HTML Source", or something similar.

When you lick on that you will see all of the source for the page.

Scroll down and look for text that looks like this

<form action="scripts/form/rvform.php" method="post" name="

delete everything between that text and the part that ends with

</form>

Then copy and paste the text above inside. (And replace the part that says "YOUR-SECRET-KEY" with the key you recieved in the email.

Hope this helps.

[Zana_Int_Elfy]

I am using javascript& normal form submission script for my email form, never used server side scripts, as when I was building it offline, I had reference to the fact that server side scripts were not possible on free hosts...

[jpruss]

Hi,

php scripting works on free-space !

[jesper]

I get everytime the message "Sorry the validation code you entered is incorrect". I tried many times but everytime I get the error.
All fields ar filled in correctly.

[bDub7]

PHP FTW! Thanks for this little tutorial, JP

[jesper]

And one day later it works fine!!
Thanks jpruss!

[jesper]

I only do not receive a response, however I filled in the adress of a .txt file.
What's going wrong ??
Can anybody help me?

[jesper]

I only do not receive a response, however I filled in the adress of a .txt file.
What's going wrong ??
Can anybody help me?

Sorry. I placed the txt-file in a password protected folder

Thanks jpruss!!