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Tim's .php3 form script
donated by Inigo Media Limited
This really
is a classic for us and has been used in contact forms over 100
times over the last few years. The only things you have to remember
are these.
- Your server
must support php3
- You must
put the script into the form page and a thank you / follow up
page
- If you
don't number the name values for the forms, you won't get any
data through
Follow these
instructions and you can't go wrong. Unfortunately we don't have
the time to run support for the script and if you need help on
hidden values, etc., it's best to refer to a manual on php!
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if you like this script
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making a donation to our favourite charity.
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Fund was set up to help intermediate technology projects get started
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welcome, but by no means compulsory. See the site at: http://theafricafund.net
First
Part: calling the script from the form
Replacing your old .pl or .cgi script is easy. Add the following
at the top of your form:
<form
action="http://www.yoursite.org/contact.php3" method="POST">
<input type=hidden name="admin" value="contact@yoursite.org">
<input type=hidden name="subject" value="Contact
Form">
Place </form>
at the end of your form table. Make sure that the <form></form>
tags are either both inside or outside the table that you have
your form in - or it might throw an html wobbly and not format
properly.
You'll need
to add numbers to the form name values to make the form process.
<input
type="TEXT" name="26)Address1" size="32">
Two tips on
this:
Firstly make
sure that all the numbers follow sequence. The data passed to
the script from the form will then be processed in the order of
the numbers you put in the name value. If the numbers are out
of sequence, that data will come out in the wrong sequence. If
you leave a gap, say forgetting to put a number in - that data
will not be picked up by the script. Even worse is if you don't
put numbers in at all. In that case you won't get any data either!
Secondly,
make sure that the name is one string - not something like "Contact
Address", which is made up of two elements. It will process
the first word and not the second - or at least that's our experience
of it.
Second
Part:
Delivery, saying thanks and moving on
This is the part you put in the thanks page - it can be plain
html, but the ending has to be saved as .php3
<?php
$mail= "From: $admin\n";
$mail.="To: $admin\n";
$mail.="Subject: $subject\n\n";
$track_vars=1;
while(list($key, $val) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
// print("<TR><TD> $key </TD><TD>
$val </TD></TR> \n");
ereg("^[0-9]{1,3}.(.*)$", $key, $m) && $mail.="$m[1]:
$val\n\n";
}
mail("contact@yoursite.org", $subject, $mail, "From:
$admin\nReply-To: $admin");
// echo "<p>-</p>\n";
?>
We usually
have something saying, "thanks for your request/information,
we'll get that to you as soon as possible" but you could
have it redirect to another page or whatever you want. We use
a link back to the page we want them to go to straight under the
'thanks' bit.
If you have
any comments, please email dan
@ inigo.net - thanks!
Download
this tutorial as a printable Word
Document
or as a PDF File.
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