Thread: Horray, horray...but I still need help

Hi,

I finally have all of my links working properly....

BUT

When I created my contact page and inserted a "submit" button....the button is pressed to go nowhere. What do i do with it?..where is it supposed to go?

By the way...having lots of fun here...this program is a great tool! So grateful for all of the help I have been receiving. THANKS!

Nancy

Be sure your Form Layout is stretched way out underneath the buttons (it will always appear transaparent , so matter if it lays over another element in BV).

Delete the old button, stretch down your Form Layout more, re-insert the Submit button. POOF!
Should do the trick.

The button is set up that way. It works fine. But when it is pressed, it goes to "cannot display page". The submit button is used to send questions and comments to me. But, how do I receive these questions and comment. Where do they come to so I can read them and answer them.

NGazzara,
For the whole process to work- you need a form for people to enter data into, a script to process and an e-mail account to receive the info.

I recommend that you use the following tutorial to set up the form and
script.
http://netisopen.com/computer/TF001/T001.html

Once you have mastered that- then click here and have a look at makeing a more secure form.
http://www.netisopen.com/computer/TF001/phpmailto.html

David has also put together an easy instant form and you can download and use. You can find it here:
http://youandmelinkup.info/forms/

Hope that helps some,

Andy

Thanks for your help Andy, this will be another new experience for me...will let you know how it turns out...

Thanks again
Nancy

We'll leave the lights on for ya. All ways some one lurking around here to lend a hand.

Andy

Andy,

I read through your very informative tutorial. I pretty much understand most of it but I am not sure where to type the script. Please advise. ( I have also looked at the video. Unfortunately, the print is not legible and it's difficult to read the instruction).

Thanks again,
Nancy

I would open note pad and copy and paste to it. Then , when you are ready, open the page properties as per the tutorial and paste it in there.

Read through it once and then go step by step and it should be clear.

Andy

Paste it where the title is typed in? There is no other place for it.

Right click on an open spot on the page and and choose

"page html"

This will open the box as seen in the tutorial.

Andy

thanks Andy, you're the best!

I just came into this thread because I liked the title :)

Right click on an open spot on the page and and choose
"page html"
This will open the box as seen in the tutorial.

Andy

Hi Andy,

Your instruction are very good. Thank you..
However, I followed them and everthing looks great until I preview. The html language is visible at the top of the page. I copied and pasted it into the "inside body tag" as instructed.
Nothing on the page was highlighted when I chose the html page from the view menu. Did that make a difference. Obviously, I did something wrong.
Please help.

Thanks again,
Nancy

php in preview will appear as text. You have to publish for the script to work without appearing as text in the page.

Thanks, navaldesign...you have been a big help.

Nancy

You are welcome.

It's me again. Of all the tasks in designing this website, this is the most difficult.

It seem that when I press the "submit" button on my form on the contact page I am directed to a "cannot display page" page.

Like I said earlier, I went over the instruction carefully and rechecked all my moves and I can't seem to find out why my "submit" button doesn't work.

Any Suggestions?

Nancy

Please post here the urL of the form page. If you get a "Page not found" error, it means the the page set as "action" for the form, hasn't been yet created / uploaded, or it has been uploaded in the wrong place.

Hi again,

My site is simplelifestyles.net...the page is contact us and the hidden page, I believe is simplelifestyles.net/contact_us.html....not sure I was supposed to do that.

At this rate I'll be a b general in no time...lololol..

Nancy

Nancy-
On the form you need to make the following adjustments;
Name field needs to be - name
E-mail field needs to be - email
Phone field needs to be- phone
Questions or comments field needs to be - comments

The way you have it now- the name for the first three fields are named T1 and the comments area is named - E-Mail.

Also- where is your process123 page? This will be your page that you put your message- Thank you for filling out my form- we will get back to you blah, blah, blah, blah............. This is also the page that you will open the page html and insert the php script into.

We're making progress.

Andy

Andy, I corrected all of the field names today. The words "Comments & Questions" is set in a text box. The text box is named "comments"

According to the first link of your tutuorial I should have been able to use the "submit" button after that process. I didn't realize that I had to create the "process 123" page in order for everything to work properly.

I will get on that right away. My target date to get this site up and my business started is Sept. 1 of this year..lol....
Thanks again for your help
Nancy

I would appreciate some feedback with regard to my site. This is my first attempt and I have been asked to do 2 sites, both professional, 1 lawyer and 1 Chiropracter. I would like to feel comfortable about making this committment.
Thanks,
Nancy

Nancy-
You seem to be bouncing back and fourth between the two tutorials taking some from each. Each is different. Like I suggested before- start with this one;
http://netisopen.com/computer/TF001/T001.html

Read it all the way through and follow each step. Then once you have mastered that one, we can move on to making it a little more secure.

So now that the form is set up correctly you need to create the thankyou
page. Make sure to check the php extension in the page properties. When you save the page- simply type in thankyou where it asks for page name. When you publish it BV will give it a php extension.

As to your website. It looks very very nice. The colors and style are inviting and evoke professionalism and confidence. I did notice that your picture is not there- did you put one on the page yet? In any event- you have done a wonderful job thus far. Keep up the great work.

Andy

Andy,

You're the best! Thanks for your compliments. My pic was up but I took it down. You see, Gina is my daughter and she wanted me to use her black & white photo, I don't have one. I plan to get one, soon. I had a photo up on my profile...I guess I'll have to post one again.

As for the "thank you" page. It's been completed but the submit button on my contact page doesn't work. The php ext is checked and it shows up in the FTP manager, so does the contact page as an html.

I'm not sure what is wrong here.

Nancy

Nancy-
I have looked but can't find the thankyou.php page

Are you sure you published it? Can you see it in the FTP manager on the server?

Also- on the form, did you choose multipart/form data ?

Andy

Andy, I corrected the form to read "multipart/formdata" and yes the thank you page has been published and it shows in the FTP manager as thank_you.php. This page is saved as thank_you in blue voda too.

Maybe you can find it now.

Nancy

Ok- then on the form you need to correct the action to-
thank_you.php

Give that a try.

Andy

on the contact page form?

Yes. You see the when the submit button is pressed it tells the form what page to seek out to process the information. That is your thank_you.php page. Correct this and your it should work.

Andy

I did that and it still doesn't work. When I click the submit button , the thank you page should come up, right? I get "page cannot be found"
Should the method be post or get?

Ok- I have found the problem. You have published two contact_us forms.
One is in the main public_html area and the second is in the folder
contact.

So here is what we do. On your main page (index) change the hyperlink to : http: //simplelifestyles.net/contact/contact_us.html
This will direct the user to the correct form.

Then use the FTP Manager to delete the other contact_us form (page).
MAKE SURE NOT TO DELETE THE ONE IN THE CONTACT FOLDER.

I actually tested your form and it worked. Now we just have to see if you
received the e-mail.

Andy

I changed the hyperlink to simplelifestyles.net/contact/contact_us.html on my index page.

Then I went to the FTP manager and deleted the contact_us page
I lost the connection on the main page when I clicked on Contact Us. I changed the link in every page to the one you suggested.
Nothing

Nancy-
When I click on the nav bar on your main page- this is the hyperlink that is displayed:
http: //www.simplelifestyles.net/%20//simplelifestyles.net/contact/contact_us.html

This is what it should be:
http://www.simplelifestyles.net/contact/contact_us.html

For some reason, when you typed in the new one it added it to the existing.

Did you receive the test e-mail from your form?

Don't loose heart- we are close.

Andy

hahahahhaha..........I finally got it.....
I typed the hyperlink incorrectly.....but we HAVE IT NOW

THANKS,
NANCY BTW....LOVE YOUR SITE

I take it the e-mail came through!

Cheers-

Andy

I checked my mail in the control panel and there is none...I guess there is another process for that?

Ok- almost there. The php script on the tutorial that you were to copy and paste in the "page html" area of the thankyou page- can you paste it
here so I may have a look?

To do so- right click on an open area of the thanyou page and click on "page html". Then click on Inside body tag. In the white area should be the code you pasted. Copy that and then paste it here on the forum.

Also- what e-mail address are you sending it to?

Andy

Andy, thanks for hanging in there with me. I am beat, so I guess we'll have to pick this up tomorrow. Thanks sooooooooooo much.

Nancy

Cool. Good night.

Andy

consult@simplelifestyles.net

<script language="php">
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "consult@simplelifestyles.net";
$mailsubj = "Form submission";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) { $mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; }
if (!eregi("\n",$HTTP_POST_VARS[email])) { mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead); }

You missed the last part of the script when you cut and paste. If you put

</script>

at the very end (and so long as the script was placed Inside body tag- then it should work once corrected.) Remember to save/publish and that should do it. So it should look like;

<script language="php">
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "consult@simplelifestyles.net";
$mailsubj = "Form submission";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) { $mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; }
if (!eregi("\n",$HTTP_POST_VARS[email])) { mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead); }
</script>


Let me know.

Andy

I only missed it when I pasted it to you...it's there.

And we're certain it is pasted in Inside body tag of the thankyou page?

Andy

I just checked again. I clicked View, page html, inside body tag and the script is there.

andy, I really appreciate this but we can continue this tomorrow. I feel bad that I'm keeping you up.

I sent you an e-mail from my gmail account to see if e-mails are getting through.

The only other thing I could think of would be to change the email
address in the script to include http://www.


Andy

This is early for me! LOL. If you are tired-we can certainly pick it up when ever you wish.

Andy

Your mail didn't come through...I checked the cpanel to make sure that my e-mail address was correct and it seems to be. Does it matter if I choose Squirrel or Hord?

No it doesn't matter. If you have another e-mail such as msn, hotmail, or yahoo- maybe plug in that email address inthe script to see if it is just an issue with your account in cpanel.

Everything appears to be ok except that e-mails aren't getting through to the c-panel account.

If you don't have another account- use mine to test.

keith@netisopen.com

Andy

LMAO....all this time I'm calling you andy and your name is keith...

I should have realized.....it's that over 40+ syndrome...lolollllll


I changed it to my gmail account...msgazzara******.com and I received the e-mail. I can submit a ticket now and have vodahost take a look at it.

And there was great rejoicing!!!!

Great! I am glad it all worked out.

Cheers and have a good night.

Andy

thanks soooooooo much....I hope I remember all of this when I have to do it for a client....

Sweet dreams
Nancy

Hi,

I contacted the support team. They said that they tested my e-mail and it's working fine but I still can't receive e-mail from my contact page. There must be something between the language in the thank you page and the contact page that I'm missing.

Thanks,
Nancy