Thread: email from forms

i have set up my email in cpanel & outlook express but nothing seems to go to them
on my pages are forms for customers to send me heir details they say that they are sending but im not getting any emails what am i doing wrong

So we can take a look, what is your web site, URL ?

hi bill
my url is www.dantinaproperties.com

The action of your forms is set to be mailto: your email address. If you read the BlueVoda Form Tutorial 1 you will see that this is NOT a reccomended way of processing your forms. In most cases, the mail will NOT get through. You should install a php script to do that. Have a look at Advanced BlueVoda Form Processor

hi ive tried what you suggested (on 15 of the pages ref 314 onwards) but it still is not working what am i doing wrong please help

I have tried your ref. 315 page and i got the thankyou page. Ofcourse, i can't know if the mail goes through or not. However, your form (s) have all the fields named T1, which is the default value that BV assigns. Every field must have it's own name, and the email field should be "email" all lowercase chrs. Please edit them.

Also, include a hidden field in your forms, with the reference nr, so that you will know which property the visitor is interested in.

Please note that for a real estate site, with so many properties, you should have a database driven script, otherwise manually building and updating all these pages becomes very difficult. A DB script also allows your visitors to search the listings with any criteria, as location, price, nr of bedrooms, pool, etc.

hi thanks for all your help am editing all my fields and checking them as i go. still no emails showing up in my account! still don't know what im doing wrong sorry for being such a pain about this but could you help yet again somebody who is totally confussed about this?

Also how do i include a hidden field in my forms i've checked the tutorials but can't seem to find anything explaining how you do this.

thanks yet again

Yor forms ned to have a php script that will process them and send you the mail. From this point of view, and in order to have additional security measures, i suggest that you use the Advanced BlueVoda Form Processor

As for the hidden field, just double click your form, and in the form proprties dialog box, you will see, at the bottom, "Add" (hidden field). Click it and add your hidden field name (which should be "Reference") and value (which should be the ref number)

hi again,
am doing what you suggested but its still not working i just dont know what i'm doing wrong.
what else can i do please help!

What is not working ? the email part or the hidden field part ?
If the email part, post here the php script that you have uploaded on your site to process the forms

its the email part heres the script that i've uploaded from bv form processor.

Form Name: give it a descriptive name, as f.e. Contact Form (optional)
Action: set the action to be abvfp.php
Method: POST
Encoding type: multipart / form-data

One last step: this script makes use of the PHP$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] command. Since not all browsers support this feature, we have implemented an alternative, which rewuires you to add a hidden field in your form. This hidden field must contain the form URL, without any http or www. F.e., if your form URL is http://www.yoursite.com/contactform.html, just add a hidden field in your form . The field name should be “ndpage” and it’s value simply “contactform”. To add this field, in the Form Properties dialog box, click on “Add”, then in the Name field type in “ndpage” and in the Value field type in “contactform” . If the URL of your page is http://www.yoursite.com/Survey_form.html the value should be “Survey_form”

Krisy, please post here a link to one of your updated forms, so i can see how it has been setup. And, this is not the script, it's simply a part of the tutorial i have created for ABVFP. Are you using the ABVFP to process your forms ?

not sure how to do a link but this is one of the form pages that i have set up www.dantinaproperties.com/710.html

so confussed now not sure what i'm doing

hi

i'm sending what i think is the link again www.dantinaproperties.com/710.html

Ok, the form (ref 710) is setup ok. However, as i suspected, you do NOT have ABVFP as your processing script. I suppose that you have used a simple script (action.php) following the Forms Tutorial. But, since this script is in PHP, i can't see it to tell you if you have done something wrong. I need to see here the PHP code that you have placed in your "action.php" page. Please copy it and post it here.

not sure if this is what you need? but here goes


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<TITLE>action</TITLE>
<META name="GENERATOR" content="Created by BlueVoda">
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
<!--
function SwapImage()
{
var doc=document, args=arguments;
doc.$imgSwaps = new Array();
for(var i=2; i<args.length; i+=2)
{
var elem=FindObject(args[i]);
if(elem)
{
doc.$imgSwaps[doc.$imgSwaps.length]=elem;
elem.$src=elem.src;
elem.src=args[i+1];
}
}
}
function FindObject(id, doc)
{
var child, elem;
if(!doc)
doc=document;
if(doc.getElementById)
elem=doc.getElementById(id);
else
if(doc.layers)
child=doc.layers;
else
if(doc.all)
elem=doc.all[id];
if(elem)
return elem;
if(doc.id==id || doc.name==id)
return doc;
if(doc.childNodes)
child=doc.childNodes;
if(child)
{
for(var i=0; i<child.length; i++)
{
elem=FindObject(id,child[i]);
if(elem)
return elem;
}
}
var frm=doc.forms;
if(frm)
{
for(var i=0; i<frm.length; i++)
{
var elems=frm[i].elements;
for(var j=0; j<elems.length; j++)
{
elem=FindObject(id,elems[i]);
if(elem) return elem;
}
}
}
return null;
}
// -->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFDF" text="#000000" <?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "dantinaproperties@dantinaproperties.com";
$mailsubj = "request more information";
$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);
?>
>
<DIV style="position:absolute;left:85px;top:23px;width: 749px;height:73px;background-color:#FFFFC4;z-index:0" align="center">
<FONT style="font-size:64px;BACKGROUND-COLOR:#FFFFFF" color="#FFAD5B" face="Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold">www.Dantinaproperties.com</FONT>
</DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;left:100px;top:134px;widt h:134px;height:310px;z-index:1" align="center">
<TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<TR>
<TD align="left" valign="top" width="134" height="22"><A href="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/apartments.html"><IMG id="bv01281" src="bv01281.gif" alt="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/apartments.html" align="top" border="0" width="134" height="22" onmouseover="SwapImage(1,0,'bv01281','bv01281_over .gif')" onmouseout="SwapImage(0,0,'bv01281','bv01281.gif') "></A></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD height="50"></TD></TR><TR>
<TD align="left" valign="top" width="134" height="22"><A href="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/villas.html"><IMG id="bv01282" src="bv01282.gif" alt="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/villas.html" align="top" border="0" width="134" height="22" onmouseover="SwapImage(1,0,'bv01282','bv01282_over .gif')" onmouseout="SwapImage(0,0,'bv01282','bv01282.gif') "></A></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD height="50"></TD></TR><TR>
<TD align="left" valign="top" width="134" height="22"><A href="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/duplex.html"><IMG id="bv01283" src="bv01283.gif" alt="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/duplex.html" align="top" border="0" width="134" height="22" onmouseover="SwapImage(1,0,'bv01283','bv01283_over .gif')" onmouseout="SwapImage(0,0,'bv01283','bv01283.gif') "></A></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD height="50"></TD></TR><TR>
<TD align="left" valign="top" width="134" height="22"><A href="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/bungalows.html"><IMG id="bv01284" src="bv01284.gif" alt="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/bungalows.html" align="top" border="0" width="134" height="22" onmouseover="SwapImage(1,0,'bv01284','bv01284_over .gif')" onmouseout="SwapImage(0,0,'bv01284','bv01284.gif') "></A></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD height="50"></TD></TR><TR>
<TD align="left" valign="top" width="134" height="22"><A href="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/fincas.html"><IMG id="bv01285" src="bv01285.gif" alt="http://www.dantinaproperties.com/fincas.html" align="top" border="0" width="134" height="22" onmouseover="SwapImage(1,0,'bv01285','bv01285_over .gif')" onmouseout="SwapImage(0,0,'bv01285','bv01285.gif') "></A></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;left:334px;top:175px;widt h:473px;height:162px;z-index:2" align="center">
<FONT style="font-size:48px" color="#FF6820" face="Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold">Thank you for your request we will replie as soon as possible.</FONT>
</DIV>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Just sent you an email to your email address to see if it goes through. Your script seems ok.

Just one small error:

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email']; here it should be 'email'
$mailto = "dantinaproperties@dantinaproperties.com";
$mailsubj = "request more information";
$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);

My only suspect is that since there was no sender's email address (because of the above mistake) the mails were blocked by spam filters.

have not received any emails as of 3.48 pm

Don't know what else to say. Correct the mistake in the script, and try also changing the email address to something else. If you still can't get it to work, you can ask for help

i would just like to say thank you for all your help with this matter and hopefully the problem will be resolved.

thanks again

Naval:

In your post about multi-page forms for Contact Us pages on a persons website, I would like to know what could be done to create a better look and feel of the information sent to the person(s) when a person has filled in the forms.

My problem is how to format or where to format the form before I receive it. Below is what I get after submit has been pressed.

Values submitted from web site form :
New_/_Used : new
Type : (power)
manufacturer_/_builder : this is just a test
From : from
To : to
Feet/Inches/Meters : feet
Year : yyyy
email : this is just a test
name : this is just a test
address : this is just a test
city : this is just a test
state : this is just a test
zip_code : this is just a test
phone_number : this is just a test
Submit : Page2
Hull : aluminum
Fuel : Diesel
Engines : 1
Comments : this is just a test.... please disregard
formpage3 : Page 3


Is there a way to make this look more professional instead of what it looks like here?

I would like to receive the information in a more easier to read format.
Such as one e-mail that has each pages information broken down in the way it is created on the website.

Page one information:

Name ............................. Iam Nothere
Address........................... Your Town
State.............................. My State
Zip Code.......................... Numbers
Phone Number................... ### - ### -###
Email............................... Help@figurethisout.com


Page two information:

What ever is placed on page two but in a readable format as stated above.

Page three after submit has been pressed then I get the information in my email.....

I am trying to create a better Thank you letter for page 3

More professional in nature. Such as a letter with my company logo the address and the format and style one gets from snail mail and a company business letter.

Thank you

Ram_Industries
Robert Montgomery
http://Martech-Inc.biz

In addition: I would like for the Thank you page to appear with the persons name that sent the form to appear. So if John Masterson filled in the form located on the Contact Us, and John sent the form, his Auto Response page opens up to say something like the following:

As follows:

Dear John Masterson:

Thank you for your request for information from Martech Inc.

Martech Inc Yacht Coating Specialists will view your information and get back with you with-in 24 - 48 Hours if there is additional information we will need from you.

Martech Inc. Management Team

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Originally Posted by Ram_Industries

Naval:

In your post about multi-page forms for Contact Us pages on a persons website, I would like to know what could be done to create a better look and feel of the information sent to the person(s) when a person has filled in the forms.

My problem is how to format or where to format the form before I receive it. Below is what I get after submit has been pressed.

Values submitted from web site form :
New_/_Used : new
Type : (power)
manufacturer_/_builder : this is just a test
From : from
To : to
Feet/Inches/Meters : feet
Year : yyyy
email : this is just a test
name : this is just a test
address : this is just a test
city : this is just a test
state : this is just a test
zip_code : this is just a test
phone_number : this is just a test
Submit : Page2
Hull : aluminum
Fuel : Diesel
Engines : 1
Comments : this is just a test.... please disregard
formpage3 : Page 3


Is there a way to make this look more professional instead of what it looks like here?

I would like to receive the information in a more easier to read format.
Such as one e-mail that has each pages information broken down in the way it is created on the website.

Page one information:

Name ............................. Iam Nothere
Address........................... Your Town
State.............................. My State
Zip Code.......................... Numbers
Phone Number................... ### - ### -###
Email............................... Help@figurethisout.com


Page two information:

What ever is placed on page two but in a readable format as stated above.

Page three after submit has been pressed then I get the information in my email.....

I am trying to create a better Thank you letter for page 3

More professional in nature. Such as a letter with my company logo the address and the format and style one gets from snail mail and a company business letter.

Thank you

Ram_Industries
Robert Montgomery
http://Martech-Inc.biz

I can do all of the above. If you wish contact me. Receiving my autoresponder message you will se how it can be formatted.

However, since we have long discussed through both forum and email about such features, i'd like to make clear that many of the things you ask for, are ONLY ACHEIVABLE THROUGH A CUSTOMIZED SCRIPT. As such, it cannot be found in a generic script (the paid for version od ABVFP, DBTS Form Processor Pro, has html emails, that allow for perfect formatting). If you wish to see how the email is formatted using html, please test our example contact form in DB Technosystems. You will receive the autoresponder message and you will see what i mean.