Forms for the Beginner.

[Steatf]

Hi All,

Me again, the nuisance..

I have been playing with Jotform for forms for my XWD development and feel that I would like to manage my forms and not involve outside suppliers.

I seem to remember some while ago seeing some Javascript that just took the info and emailed it as delimited text.

Could any of you point me to past threads or sites that you have found useful for this..

By the way I was pointed to Jotform by this Forum and it was wonderful advice as usual.. Thank you all for your help and advice.

Kind Regards... Steve

[zaphodeist]

Hi Steve

If you just want a simple, basic info form have a look at this. You put the form into a page via the placeholder and you can use html for formatting the text etc. The php doc goes in the same upload folder as your page. Responses get mailed to one or more addresses

[razzle0146]

Steve,

Just wanted top let you know that CoffeCup Form Builder is a great tool for building forms, then just use a placeholder and thats it.. Simple...

Hope this helps...

[steve.ledger]

John's link (neodeist) to the simple PHP mailer works well and is 'tweakable'.

Attached as a copy'n'paste placeholder and includes the code to save as a .php file.

Details inside

*Note: Your server must support PHP for this form to work.

[akubbeng]

Thanks for sharing, John and Steve.

That looks like an attractive, little form that's gonna be useful to a lot of people.

[Boy]

Thanks for the PHP mailer. With such a script, would it be possible to also include an option to attach a file (such as a .jpg) to the email? I understand that this would also need to include a "Browse" function to be able to point to the file in order for it to be uploaded.

[mrcardozo03]

John's link (neodeist) to the simple PHP mailer works well and is 'tweakable'.

Attached as a copy'n'paste placeholder and includes the code to save as a .php file.

Details inside

*Note: Your server must support PHP for this form to work.

Hi Sledger Thanks so much for your valuable info. Can you help me with a project. I was requested to make a website with an email capability. I seens that php mailer is the answer but I need some help like you know how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

[steve.ledger]

Your profile indicates that you have Web Designer 6.
Look in the Designs gallery as there are a number of email contact forms (Form Widgets) which are included for use with the software.

[cyborgeek]

Simple yes but there is some quarks... so here some info for all If you creat a form in CoffeCup you should know the following things before you save your form.
1. ADVANCE TAB under explorer -make sure un check the fix for displaying active content
2. if you are having trouble viewing your form in IE 6, 7, 8 only but in Firefox Google Safari
all is well !!!

check your code line on the page that has the form place held, in dreamweaver etc...& if you see this code below ( most likely it will be at the begining and end of your script or it may be anywere in the code )

<!--[if IE]><script type="text/javascript">var xr_swfs=document.getElementsByTagName("object");fo r(var i=0;i<xr_swfs.length;i++){xr_swfs[i].outerHTML=xr_swfs[i].outerHTML;}</script><![endif]-->

Then this may be your issue remove it and all will be well

just putting it out there

[MarciaB]

Hi, thanks for the script, but how can I change the language on the form ?