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Formmail - An easy to use form script
Introduction
To use Formmail, you need to create a form on one of your web pages and the formmail.pl
script should be placed in your cgi-bin. You will need to upload the formmail.pl script from
Matt's Archives located at
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts
/.You will need to modify the script for our servers and your domain and the
formmail.pl script must be uploaded to your cgi-bin in ASCII mode and
chmod to 755
<FORM ACTION = "yourdomain/cgi-bin/formmail.pl" METHOD =
"POST">
formmail.pl will do all the programming work for you. You alter the behavior
of formmail by using hidden fields in your form.
There is only one form field that you must have in your form for Formmail to
work correctly. This is the recipient field.
Field: recipient
Description: This form field allows you to specify to whom you wish for your
form results to be mailed to. Most likely you will want to configure this option
as a hidden form field with a value equal to that of your e-mail address.
Syntax:<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="email@yourdomain.com">
Optional Form Fields
Field: subject
Description: The subject field will allow you to specify the subject that you
wish to appear in the e-mail 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">
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 the user will end up at:
<input type=hidden name="redirect"
value="http://domain.com/file.html">
To allow the user to specify a URL he/she wishes to travel to once the form is
filled out:
<input type=text name="redirect">
Field: required
Description: You can now require for 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. 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.
Syntax: If you want to require that the user fill in the email and phone fields in
your form so that you can reach them once you have received the mail, use a
syntax like:
<input type=hidden name="required" value="email,phone">
Field: env_report
Description: Allows you to have Environment variables included in the e-mail
message you receive after a user has filled out your form. This is useful if you
wish to know what browser they were using, what domain they were coming
from or any other attributes associated with environment variables. The
following is a short list of valid environment variables that might be useful:
REMOTE_HOST - Sends the hostname making a request.
REMOTE_ADDR - Sends the IP address of the remote host making the
request.
HTTP_USER_AGENT - The browser the client is using to send the request.
General format
software/version
library/version
Syntax: If you wanted to find the remote host and browser sending the
request, you would put the following into your form:
<input type=hidden name="env_report"
value="REMOTE_HOST,HTTP_USER_AGENT">
Field: title
Description: This form field allows you to specify the title and header that will
appear on the resulting page if you do not specify a redirect URL.
Syntax: If you wanted a title of 'Feedback Form Results':
<input type=hidden name="title" value="Feedback Form Results">
Field: return_link_url
Description: This field allows you to specify a URL that will appear as a
return_link_title on the following report page. This field will not be used if
you have the redirect field set, although it is useful if you allow the user to
receive the report on the following page, but want to offer them a way to get
back to your main page.
Syntax: <input type=hidden name="return_link_url"
value="http://domain.com/file.html">
Field: return_link_title
Description: This is the title that will be used to link the user back to the page
you specify with return_link_url. The two fields will be shown on the
resulting form page as:
<ul> <li><a href="return_link_url">return_link_title</a> </ul>
Syntax:<input type=hidden name="return_link_title" value="Back to Main Page">
Field: background
Description: This form field allows you to specify a background image that
will appear if you do not have the redirect field set. This image will appear as
the background to the form results page.
Syntax:<input type=hidden name="background"
value="http://domain.com/image.gif">
Field: bgcolor
Description: This form field allows you to specify a bgcolor for the form
results page in much the way you specify a background image. This field
should not be set if the redirect field is.
Syntax: For a background color of White:
<input type=hidden name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
Field: text_color
Description: This field works in the same way as bgcolor, except that it will
change the color of your text.
Syntax: For a text color of Black:
<input type=hidden name="text_color" value="#000000">
Field: link_color
Description: Changes the color of links on the resulting page. Works in the
same way as text_color. Should not be defined if redirect is.
Syntax: For a link color of Red:
<input type=hidden name="link_color" value="#000080">
Field: vlink_color
Description: Changes the color of visited links on the resulting page. It works
exactly the same as link_color. Should not be set if redirect is.
Syntax: For a visited link color of Blue:
<input type=hidden name="vlink_color" value="#0000FF">
Field: alink_color
Description: Changes the color of active links on the resulting page. Works
exactly the same as link_color. Should not be set if redirect is.
Syntax: For a visited link color of Blue:
<input type=hidden name="alink_color" value="#0000FF">
Any other form fields that appear in your script will be mailed back to you
and displayed on the resulting page if you do not have the redirect field set.
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