Thread: Form problem PLEASE HELP!!!!

I finaly got all my pages published and linked. I had a hard time at it. so when I was testing to see if everything worked I found out that the form on my information page does not seem to work. I the tutorials the best I could comprehend.

When I try to test it and hit the submit button a window pops up and says

Microsoft Internet Exploror
This form is being submitted using e-mail. Submitting this form will reveal your e-mail address to the recipient,and will send the form data without encrypting it for privacy.

You may continue or cancel this submission

Ok Cancel

A e-mail window pops up and it says at the top of it.

A e-mail posted from Microsoft Internet Exploror.-message

The place to put the address to send to is blank and in the area where the message does not show the message the way most e-mails.

All I want the form to do is for the person that wants more info about me and my services to forward it to my e-mail. I have it set up like the following.

A box for them to put their name
A box for them to put their e-mail address
A box for them to write the message
And below that it has sumit button and a reset button

PLEASE HELP
I'm getting some hits but the people have no way to contact me if they wish.
My website is www.swgart.com

Thanks and I pray someone can help

G'day..

You have a 'meilto' input in your form action.. change that to the php script that is in your landing page.. For example, if after the form is submitted the visitor is taken to a 'Thank you' page.. that page could be thank_you.php (example only).. then your action should be set to thank_you.php.

Please read the instructions that follow the multimedia tutorial in BlueVoda Form Tutorial 1.
You will see there that your problem is an expected one and the you should use a php script to process your form info. You will also find there step by step instructions on how to create this script. You also have an alternative: use the Advanced BlueVoda Form Processor

Thanks fella's

Please forgive me but I don't understand what you are telling me to do.I don't know what php script is or where to put it.
On the forms properites what am I supposed to type in

Form name
Action
Method
Encoding type
Hidden feilds?
name value
add edit delete

Do I need to create a Thank You page?

Please explain to me like you are explaining it to someone very ignorant because you are.

Thanks

A php script is a small piece of program written in php ( a programming language). It receives the information from the form, and then creates and sends you an email with this info. Since almost noone of the VH customers has ever had experience before in doing this, in BlueVoda Form Tutorial 1 , just bellow the multimedia presentation, there is a full explanation and step by step instructions on how to acheive your goal.

There you can see also what the form properties should be.

Ok I will give it a try.

I appreciate your help but some of this stuff is above my head.

Everbody here is so smart about this that I'm very embarassed to even ask.

No one here is smarter than others, we all started from point zero and all this stuff seemed beyond our capabilities. Don't worry, in just some time you will have the same experience we do. Just read carefully the instructions: they really guide you step by step, so it's gonna be easy

Ok I have got to where it says click on page properties and select the extention php for your page when its published. I have done that. But what comes next I can not understand at all! I don't know what it means to copy code or how to do it.

Ok I have figured out how to copy and paste to page html. I have never done that before:) Its says to save this page as "action" is this what I need to name the page?

Attention: you have two different pages: The form page, and the thankyou page, where the code will be placed.

The form page can be saved as whatever you like, and the extension must be html.

The thankyou page, which will have the script in it, must have the extension php. You can save it as "action", or whatever else you like. If you name it "action", then, in the form page, the field "action" in the form properties, must be filled in with "action.php". If you name it something else, the field "action" must be filled in with "nameyouhaveused.php"

I suggest that for now you should use the names of the tutorial, so you won't get confused.

I have got it pasted. It says while this page is open change the actual email address and email subject but which ones?
Is is the one I change to my actual email address $email or $mailto ?
I assume the the place I change the email subjecy is $mailsubj.

On step 3 its says to take care to publish it in the same directory where you have published your "contact" page.
Would you explain this in simple terms to me what this means?

Thanks

I have got it pasted. It says while this page is open change the actual email address and email subject but which ones?

Your email address and the message that you want to appear in the email taht you will receive.

Is is the one I change to my actual email address $email or $mailto ?
I assume the the place I change the email subjecy is $mailsubj.

Change the " order@example.com " and the "Enter your subject here". Generally speaking, the parts in BLUE color.

On step 3 its says to take care to publish it in the same directory where you have published your "contact" page.

Would you explain this in simple terms to me what this means?

Some people publish in different directories, especially if the have subdomains or addon domains. I understand that you are publishing in your public_html, so there is no problem, publish them as you usually do.

Thanks navaldesign
I hope I have not mesed anything up so lets see if it works

When I fill out the form to test it and hit the submit button it goes to "The page cannot be displayed"

In the address bar all it says is action:php

Please provide the URL of your form page. The page cannot be found probably because in the form properties, you have set the action in "action:php" instead of "action.php"

http://www.swgart.com/info.html

I have the form on the same page as my general studio info

Yes, i can see it. The problem, as i said, is that you have set the action to "action:php". It needs to be set to "action.php". Edit the form page, save and republish

Yes I see it.

It says the page cannot be found. In the address bar it says http://swgart.com/action.php

Have you published the "action.php" page ? I cannot find it. It seems that you have saved (and published) the action page as "thankyou.php". If you have indeed saved it as "thankyou" then the action of the form must be set to be "thankyou.php". Please understand that the form action needs to be excactly the name of the page with the script. Change the form action in "thankyou.php", save and publish

On the form page I have it filled out as

Form name info
Action action.php
Method post
Encoding type multipart/form-data

On what I think is the action page It is filled out as

Title thankyou
File extention php

Yes, but you must save it as "action" instead you have saved it as "thankyou", so you have two alternatives: you either save it as "action" (save and republish) if the form action is set to "action.php", or you change the form action to "thankyou.php" since you have saved the page with the script as "thankyou"

I changed the form action to thankyou.php

It works thanks to you:)

THANK YOU GEORGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any suggestions on how to make my site better? Please don't hold back you want hurt my feelings.

I'm working on a logo and I will add more pictures to the showcase.

Thanks again

The only problem i can see is that some of your text links are non easily readable because of the combination text color/background color. It is a bit hard for my old eyes to read them. I suggest that you use bright colors (even white) on the dark background, and vice versa.
Also, since in the links you have already (inactive) the text relevant to the page itself, i find useless repeating it as title. I beleibe you should only keep one of the two in each page.
Lat, i would name the pages something like "Taxidermy Art of Stephen W. Goad - Homepage" and not simply "index" . Please note that the page name is NOT the same thing as the filename. Your page is "index" but it's name (the one that appears on your browser's top bar) can be whatever you like. For SE optimization name them, and also add metatags and page description

Hi George!

Looks what I typed in blue color !!!

Hi *****!

Thanks once again for the help! I have made as you to me have told to make, with what it has helped, but with forms there were problems!
1) When I shall fill the form and I do Sabmit I am am asked again with the password of mine e-mail ---I want that it was as on usual websaits has filled, has pressed SAbmit and the form has gone
On e-mail Host .How it can be made mine?

You have set your form "Action" in mailto:windows@usinstallationservices.com

This is wrong. You need to install a php script on your website, in order to process your form info and send it directly to your email address, without opening your Outlook Express (or whatever other email client you are using).
The method of the form must be set to "POST" and the action must be f.e. "action.php" if this is how your php script is called. the "Enctyte" field must be set to "multipart / form data"
Hi George!Which is PHP script? That one:
<?php
foreach($_POST as $key=>$value){
if ($key!="submit"){
$value=htmlentities(stripslashes(strip_tags($value )));
echo "\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"$key\" value=\"$value\">\n";
}
}
?>
Well I did that, but you say :You have set your form "Action" in mailto:windows@usinstallationservices.com This is wrong.In tutorial 1 form you guys show as that way Check up: http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/forms/9349-bluevoda-forms-tutorial-part-1-a.html
The method of the form must be set to "POST" and the action must be f.e. "action.php" if this is how your php script is called. the "Enctyte" field must be set to "multipart / form data"I did that!
That you spoke all at a forum I has made!!! I tried to replace mailto:windows@usinstallationservices.com on action.php is have given nothing! The question where it will be sending if is not present e-mail the address?? (action.php- it is not my e-mail)) If it is necessary to change in most script something ---explain that. I in general would set at a forum a concrete example on an example of one of real sites (let even there will be my site) how to place script and what is available under a name action.php in the given situation (form) (it can should look so>> windows@usinstallationservices.com.php??? ---action.php) I have already killed month of time and so has not received on it the concrete answer! All that I have received in last letter it too most that I read at a forum!
By the way at a forum: http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/bluevoda-tips-tricks-shortcuts/10151-multipage-form-tutorial.html#post57100 This tutorial stands on the hypothesis that you are already familiar with simple BV forms, as well as with the relevant php script that is needed to process the form info and send the email in your inbox. If not, please first visit BlueVoda Forms Tutorial Part 1 http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/forms/9349-bluevoda-forms-tutorial-part-1-a-2.html#post86126 What script!!? If you will press on BlueVoda Forms Tutorial Part 1 - that will come in anywhere - there simply is not present that script!))) And so on a forum it is possible to wander in the whole days not finding the answer to the necessary question! You though check links (footnotes) where send custumers behind the answer? I Am afraid what not one I have come to such conclusions. I have shown only one example - and such links mismatching to a question at a forum a lot : ( ! At a forum of thousand Posts, and in fact it is possible to simplify this all to make as in the usual book folders and in everyone folder to give only answers to a theme of the name folder - then I think you have facilitated a life not only to us (custumers), but for you BV guys also! Excuse for frankness - but I thought for a long time to offer it to you! Michael

Hi George!

Looks what I typed in blue color !!!

Hi *****!

Thanks once again for the help! I have made as you to me have told to make, with what it has helped, but with forms there were problems!
1) When I shall fill the form and I do Sabmit I am am asked again with the password of mine e-mail ---I want that it was as on usual websaits has filled, has pressed SAbmit and the form has gone
On e-mail Host .How it can be made mine?

You have set your form "Action" in mailto:windows@usinstallationservices.com

This is wrong. You need to install a php script on your website, in order to process your form info and send it directly to your email address, without opening your Outlook Express (or whatever other email client you are using).
The method of the form must be set to "POST" and the action must be f.e. "action.php" if this is how your php script is called. the "Enctyte" field must be set to "multipart / form data"
Hi George!Which is PHP script? That one:
<?php
foreach($_POST as $key=>$value){
if ($key!="submit"){
$value=htmlentities(stripslashes(strip_tags($value )));
echo "\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"$key\" value=\"$value\">\n";
}
}
?>
Well I did that, but you say :You have set your form "Action" in mailto:windows@usinstallationservices.com This is wrong.In tutorial 1 form you guys show as that way Check up: http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/forms/9349-bluevoda-forms-tutorial-part-1-a.html
The method of the form must be set to "POST" and the action must be f.e. "action.php" if this is how your php script is called. the "Enctyte" field must be set to "multipart / form data"I did that!
That you spoke all at a forum I has made!!! I tried to replace mailto:windows@usinstallationservices.com on action.php is have given nothing! The question where it will be sending if is not present e-mail the address?? (action.php- it is not my e-mail)) If it is necessary to change in most script something ---explain that. I in general would set at a forum a concrete example on an example of one of real sites (let even there will be my site) how to place script and what is available under a name action.php in the given situation (form) (it can should look so>> windows@usinstallationservices.com.php??? ---action.php) I have already killed month of time and so has not received on it the concrete answer! All that I have received in last letter it too most that I read at a forum!
By the way at a forum: http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/bluevoda-tips-tricks-shortcuts/10151-multipage-form-tutorial.html#post57100 This tutorial stands on the hypothesis that you are already familiar with simple BV forms, as well as with the relevant php script that is needed to process the form info and send the email in your inbox. If not, please first visit BlueVoda Forms Tutorial Part 1 http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/forms/9349-bluevoda-forms-tutorial-part-1-a-2.html#post86126 What script!!? If you will press on BlueVoda Forms Tutorial Part 1 - that will come in anywhere - there simply is not present that script!))) And so on a forum it is possible to wander in the whole days not finding the answer to the necessary question! You though check links (footnotes) where send custumers behind the answer? I Am afraid what not one I have come to such conclusions. I have shown only one example - and such links mismatching to a question at a forum a lot : ( ! At a forum of thousand Posts, and in fact it is possible to simplify this all to make as in the usual book folders and in everyone folder to give only answers to a theme of the name folder - then I think you have facilitated a life not only to us (custumers), but for you BV guys also! Excuse for frankness - but I thought for a long time to offer it to you! Michael

Hi Misha,


i'm afraid you are a bit confused.

Ok, let's start with your questions:

1. In the tutorial, the "mailto:....." method is shown. However, if you read the instruction in the text UNDER the multimedia presentation, you will see that we say that this is NOT the recommended method. We recommend the use of a php script that will process the info and send the mail.
2. When you press the submit button of a form (whatever form) the form does what the "Action" field of the form says. So, if you have set the action to be "mailto:......" it will try to directly email you the info. For the reasons explained in the tutorial, the mailto method will fail in most cases. That's why we recommend NOT TO USE the mailto method, but a php script.
3. If you use a php script, the info will NOT be directly sent to you, but it will be sent to the php script. This php script will receive the info, and then it will create a mail and will send it to you. Your email address will be part of the script.
4. The script IS in the tutorial. It is not in the multimedia tutorial, it is in the text UNDER the multimedia. Please read it again. For your convenience i repeat it here:

<?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "order@example.com";
$mailsubj = "Enter Your Subject Here";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form :\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
if ($key!="submit")
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>

5. This script has to be placed on your site. There are different methods of doing this. The easiest, is to combine it in a thankyou_page that you create in BV. Please READ AGAIN the BlueVoda Forms Tutorial Part 1 . In the text there are FULL step by step instructions.
6. The other script:

<?php
foreach($_POST as $key=>$value){
if ($key!="submit"){
$value=htmlentities(stripslashes(strip_tags($value )));
echo "\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"$key\" value=\"$value\">\n";
}
}
?>

is the script that is needed for passing the info from page 1 to page 2, then from page 2 to page three. It has to be placed in a HTML box on your form (not simply in the page, ON the form area)

I hope this answers your questions. I will try to get some time to look directly at your pages to find out what your problems are.

Hi George! I find out about mail script --that what I try to find a 4 days ago --and it help my pages :)))! Whether you can help me with my form? I cannot already understand a week in what my mistake! I have made the form on 4 pages - the last 3 pages work fine, but 1 page is lost - does not come on e-mail!
http://www.usinstallationservices.com/ it is my site, come on Windows (I while work only above it - allow to finish the god though it:)). I am online all time my ICQ 85-813-412 or Skype my nik Michael Vinokurov. I see you now in online too. In thankful in advance! Mike
P.S. If you need to come on my server - let me know!

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Misha, i checked your form and i see that the info is passed correctly from the first to the second page, then to the third, and lastly to the action script. Your only problem seems to be that you have placed the php code after the fields, so the info is padded to the email in reverse order: you will receive first the info of the third page, then the info of the second page, then that of the first page.