Knowledgebase: Form Mail
I
can't call my formmail.pl securely. What am I doing wrong?
Unfortunately you cannot call you formmail.pl script securely. We apologize
for this inconvenience.
What
are the major fields I can use in Formmail?
To use Formmail, you need to create a form on one of your web pages. The
form action line should be: http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-sys/formmail.pl.
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. 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.
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
Field: email
Description: This form field will allow the user to specify their return
e-mail 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.
Field: realname
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.
Field: sort
Description: This field allows you to choose the order in which you wish
for your variables to appear in the e-mail that FormMail generates. You
can choose to have the field sorted alphabetically or specify a set order
in which you want the fields to appear in your mail message. By leaving
this field out, the order will simply default to the order in which the
browsers sends the information to the script (which isn't always the exact
same order they appeared in the form). When sorting by a set order of
fields, you should @include the phrase "order:" as the first
part of your value for the sort field, and then follow that with the field
names you want to be listed in the e-mail message, separated by commas.
Field: redirect
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
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.
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. Useful
if you wish to know what browser they were using, what domain they were
coming from or any other attribut es 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
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.
Field: return_link_url
Description: This field allows you to specify a URL that will appear as
return_link_title, on the following report page. This field will not be
used if you have the redirect field set, but 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.
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: return_link_title
Field: background
Description: This form field allow 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.
Field: bgcolor
Description: This form field allow 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.
Field: text_color
Description: This field works in the same way as bgcolor, except that
it will change the color of your text.
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.
Field: vlink_color
Description: Changes the color of visited links on the resulting page.
Works exactly the same as link_color. Should not be set if redirect is.
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.
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.
How
can I get the actual formmail.pl script?
You can use use the formmail script on the server by using the specified
formmail path or you can get your own copy here at http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/
What
are the local and global formmail.pl paths?
All accounts have access to their personal cgi-bin and our global cgi-bin:
PERSONAL
cgi-bin: put files here: /home/username/yourdomainname-www/cgi-bin
Access in page with this URL: http://yourdomainname.com/cgi-bin
GLOBAL
cgi-bin: access in page with this URL: http://yourdomainname.com/cgi-sys
The global bin information applies to counters and formmail
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