How to create Mail FormsFormMail is a generic www form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified through the form, meaning you don't need any programming knowledge or multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail the perfect system-wise solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access.
For those clients on a Windows server, we recommend formail.asp. You may download the file and instructions here.
Here's an example of the form fields to put in your form:
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<FORM
METHOD="GET" ACTION="http://yourdomain.com/FormMail.asp"> |
The other requirements you will need are the end Form tag (</form>)
and a submit button after all of your form boxes or selections for
the user.. Each field in your form will be sent to the e-mail recipient
with each submission. Matt has included a few options for messages
a user would receive once they submit the form, although the easiest
method is to direct users to a "redirect" page once the form
is submitted as indicated in the form above.
The following are descriptions and proper syntax for fields you can use
with FormMail.
Recipient
Field
Description: This form field allows you to specify to whom you wish for your form results to be mailed. Most likely you will want to configure this option as a hidden form field with a value equal to that of your email address.
Syntax: <input type=hidden name="recipient" value="email@yourdomain.com">
Subject Field
Description: The subject field will allow you to specify the subject that you wish to appear in the email that is sent to you after this form has been filled out. If you do not have this option turned on, then the script will default to a message subject: "WWW Form Submission".
Syntax: If you wish to choose what the subject is:
<input type=hidden name="subject" value="Your Subject">
To allow the user to choose a subject:
<input type=text name="subject">
Email Field
Description: This form field will allow the user to specify their return email address. If you want to be able to return e-mail to your user, I strongly suggest that you include this form field and allow them to fill it in. This will be put into the From: field of the message you receive. If you want to require an email address with valid syntax, add this field name to the 'required' field.
Syntax: <input type=text name="email">
Realname Field
Description: The realname form field will allow the user to input their real name. This field is useful for identification purposes and will also be put into the From: line of your message header.
Syntax: <input type=text name="realname">
Redirect Field
Description: If you wish to redirect the user to a different URL, rather than having them see the default response to the fill-out form, you can use this hidden variable to send them to a pre-made HTML page.
Syntax: To choose the URL they will end up at:
<input type=hidden name="redirect" value="http://yourdomain.com/to/file.html">
To allow them to specify a URL they wish to travel to once the form is filled out:
<input type=text name="redirect">
Required Field
Description: You can require certain fields in your form to be filled in before the user can successfully submit the form. Simply place all field names that you want to be mandatory into this field, separated by commas. If the required fields are not filled in, the user will be notified of what they need to fill in, and a link back to the form they just submitted will be provided.
To use a customized error page, see 'missing_fields_redirect'
Syntax: If you want to require that they fill in the email and phone fields in your form, so that you can reach them once you have received the mail, use the syntax like:
<input type=hidden name="required" value="email,phone">
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