Thread: How do I build a form

Dear Blue Voda helpers,

Okay, i know i keep bothering you with many questions... but im just really slow... so im sorry for putting up alot of threads asking for help...

1) Okay... on my website im trying to put a complaint "thing" on here and io was wondering...is there anyway i can use the "text area" so that they can use that to type in their complaint.

2) Another thing i would like to know is if i can use a "button" so that they can submit their complaint to me.

3) I have just watched the tutorial on how to make a form on your website...and was wondering if i can use that same "routine" to use for the complaint "thing" (my apologies i just cant seem to find the right word for it...) im trying to make, if at all possible.

So...can anyone help me here?
My domain name is www.dy-chan.com and if you would please go to the site and click "Conntact me." Where it says complaints it should show you what im trying to do here... please if anyone has suggestions or if anyone can help me here it would mean alot to me...!!!

Originally Posted by Dyiko_Kakiishi

Dear Blue Voda helpers,

Okay, i know i keep bothering you with many questions... but im just really slow... so im sorry for putting up alot of threads asking for help...

1) Okay... on my website im trying to put a complaint "thing" on here and io was wondering...is there anyway i can use the "text area" so that they can use that to type in their complaint.

2) Another thing i would like to know is if i can use a "button" so that they can submit their complaint to me.

3) I have just watched the tutorial on how to make a form on your website...and was wondering if i can use that same "routine" to use for the complaint "thing" (my apologies i just cant seem to find the right word for it...) im trying to make, if at all possible.

So...can anyone help me here?

My domain name is www.dy-chan.com and if you would please go to the site and click "Conntact me." Where it says complaints it should show you what im trying to do here... please if anyone has suggestions or if anyone can help me here it would mean alot to me...!!!

Yes, you'll need a form for this. Follow the tutorial, do some reading in the forms areas of the forum and with some practice, you'll be able to create exactly what you need.

Yay! Thank you very much for the help!! And the encouragement!!! ^^

Oh but if it is no trouble may i ask you another question? Ummm.... i kept typing in stuff but it doesnt seem to work...!!! ...???... can you check it out and see IF you can tell me what i did wrong just by analization? (if thats how you spell it!!!) i did everything according to the tutorial...!!! are there some things i have to change and fix?

Check what, where???? Please be more speceific and please stp centering your text, it makes it hard to read for us old people.

The complaints form is never going to work: you have named your "complaints" filed as "submit". You must name it something else, i.e. "Complaint" as the submit button itself is named also "submit", so it will submit nothing at all.

Then of course i can't know if your "action.php" page is correct or not (i can't see the php code in it, so i simply can't tell)

The Questions button is a normal button, so it does nothing at all. There is no link or form related to it.

oh yes, i know that there is something wrong with the Questions button because right now im trying to focus on the complaint button so IF or WHEN i get the complaints button down then i already know how to do everything right, then i can do the same w/ the questions button...

But what im trying to understand at this point is (im a little confused right now...but i think that MIGHT be normal) so i put its name as "Complaints," right? But for the button type i dont use submit? Also...when i was following the tutorial i noticed the tutorial said to put the code in before the header and the one that was typed said to put it in the "Inside body tag" might that have anything to do with it...

Oh and another question..when it says to add my real email....do i add my real email or my blue voda email like this one: username@mysite.com???? Because i added my yahoo. email in the coding..

Sorry for so much questions...!!! >.<
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But what im trying to understand at this point is (im a little confused right now...but i think that MIGHT be normal) so i put its name as "Complaints," right? But for the button type i dont use submit?

Yes, for the submit button you must use the name "submit"

Also...when i was following the tutorial i noticed the tutorial said to put the code in before the header and the one that was typed said to put it in the "Inside body tag" might that have anything to do with it

It is not important. If you have a script that detects errors and redirects to another page, then it should be placed in the "Start of Page". If the script (like the one in the tutorial) doesn't detect errors, it is not imporant if you place it in the Start of Page, Between Head Tag or Inside Body.

Oh and another question..when it says to add my real email....do i add my real email or my blue voda email like this one:

username@mysite.com???? Because i added my yahoo. email in the coding..

Real email means ANY real email of yours. It is not important if it is on your VodaHost account or not.

wow...umm...thank you for answering all of my questions...but...it seems i did everything right though...what else could be wrong? I cant see what i did wrong...

I can't find your "action.php" page. The "action.php" is the thank you page, with the script in it, but i just can't find it. Are you sure you have published it ? with this name ?

well...i saved the page as arigato.bvp, the thank you page, and i did everything according to the tutorial...does me naming it with .bvp a bad thing? well...im going to go over the turtorial and everything else to see if i mispelled anything in the coding...or if i did anything that would mess anything up...i'll go over this thing 100 times if i have to!!! >.<

P.S
yes i did name it "action.php"

OMGosh!! i got the thankyou page to work!! but...what happens to the stuff i wrote in there??? does it send it somewhere or am i just not that far into it yet..???

Ok, now your thankyou page shows up when you submit. If the php script is pasted in this page, it should send you an email. However, even if the script works, you might NOT receive the email.
The reason for this is that your "Complaints" form doesn't have a "email" field, for the visitor to fill in.
This means that the email that is sent to you, results without a sended, and as such it might be blocked by your ISP. To fox this, there is one thing that you can do: replace this line of the script:

$mailhead = "From: $email\n";

with this:


$mailhead = "From: youremail@example.com \n;"

replacing youremail/example.com with your own email address.

okay...i replaced
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
with
$mailhead = "From: myemail@example.net \n;

but i still dont see any "new msgs" in my inbox...am i supposed to put the spaces in there?

because i didnt...

oh...well...would it help if i did put an email field in there for the vistor to put a complaint? and then redo what i just did???

Yes, an email field would help. Of course the script has to be restored back to what it was originaly.

Please use my contct form to send me your "action" BlueVoda page. I will fix it for you and mail you back, so you will simply publish it again.
Include the mail address that you want the form to be sent to.

so i actually fill out the form??? thats all...? or do i have to fill out the form AND send you the "action" BlueVoda page?...because i dont know how to send you that... sorry...im just really dense...so please dont get mad.. <:D

Edit the form page, "contactme", and publish it. Then use my contact form to send me the "action" bluevoda page . Use the Upload field of my form to send the file

okay...well i did it...hope i did it right though...if i did anything wrong..please tell me stright..i can handle it..!! >o

Originally Posted by Dyiko_Kakiishi

okay...well i did it...hope i did it right though...if i did anything wrong..please tell me stright..i can handle it..!! >o

You did submit from my form, but you didn't attach your file, so i can see nothing.

what..? but...i clicked on the browser button and sent you the file named contact me...? am i supposed to send you that file...? or...should i save it as a template and send it to you as a template...? would that do anything???

I received the "contactme.bvp" file, but this is not the one i need. I need the "action.bvp" file to see your script. Please send it.

ooohhh...the thankyou page? So sorry...im on it!

done! hope i got it right!!

Ok, you have two problems:

1. The thank you page with the script is "arigato.php" but, in the form, you have set as action, "action.php". Change it to "arigato.php"

2. Since there is no "email" field in the form, your ISP might block the mails even when the script will work. So i edited the script to include your own mail as sender, if it finds no visitor email

I have mailed you the page back, please edit the form (set the action to be "arigato.php") and publish it. Then publish the page "arigato" i am sending you and test the form.

I can't mail you . please provide another email address, this one is bouncing.

through my email? okay well i'll be waiting for it!!
Thank you SOOOOOO much...i know...i muct've been a real pain...but thatnk you for sticking right there with me...but i have a feeling im still gonna need help after i get the email...sorry...!!!

Please look again the above post of mine: I can NOT mail you, the email address that you sent me is NOT working, at least for me. Please let me know ANOTHER email address so that i can send you the file.

Thanks

oh wow...that wasnt showing when i was sending my post...oh okay, i'll send you my hotmail! Here it is: momoko.dysan********.com okay...hope it works ...!!!

oh and by the way...the email i sent you using you're contact form IS/WAS editha.lovable@sbcglobal.net right?

i published...but got no email...!!! i like..sent myself a complaint...and it doesnt work!!! Dx

If you wish, use my form to send me your login details. I will fix it for you.

umm...??? like the sever ip address and the username and all that stuff i use for the publishing?

Yes, those

However, i have instructed you to publish the "arigato" page i sent you, and change the form action in "arigato.php". You did NOT follow my instructions. The form action is still "action.php". I don't even know what is in your "action.php" page.

oh...it looks like i forgot to push the reply button... and you didnt get the other reply..well...okay...i did...again...and it works..but..i still dont get the email...sooo...yeah i'll go to your contact from now...!!

Do the tutorials

yeah but since im just using the form layout to get what i want on my website i cant really use the tutorials...well...they help get everything started but yeah...

But your form is working now. I tested it and received the submission. Or isn't it ?

everytime i check it out i always send myself a complaint...and check my email to see if it sent the complaint to me...but it doesnt...! as soon as i send the complaint...it takes me to the thank you page...but when i check my email in see no new msg..(at least not the one i sent) at first i thought maybe there was something wrong with my email and that it just doesnt except the the mail..(i know a crazy idea, but i could think of nothing else) but i have made the sign-up form for my website and did everything accordingly and sent it to myself and i got the email almost immediately!...is there no way to using the form layout without having an an email put in by users?

Then there is simply an issue either with your ISP blocling the mail, or something else, because the complaint form IS working. A i said, i tried it, and received the mail. I have also changed the script, to make sure that if no email is entered (as in your complaint form) it automatically included your own email address as the senders address. So, in fact, there IS an email address.

My laptop got stolen yesterday, so i no longer have your login details. If you wish, send them again and i will have another look.

oh...im very sorry about your laptop! but i think i'll try and see if it works with my other email...i'll tell you if it works or not...with your laptop stolen im thinking thats a sign you should probably start resting up...and take a little break so yeah...im going to change the email...!!!

Hey there, Dyiko. Quick question: are you checking your junk e-mail? Sometimes mails from forms get sent there.

well...i dont have "junk email" but i have bulk (i dont know if thats the same thing or not but..) i check the bulk right after i check the email...!! thank you for your concern!

no problem. I honestly don't know what's happening then. But you are in good hands with Naval. He's like this wizard when it comes to scripts...well, compared to me lol! Anyway, I hope everything works out for you and I will be checking out your site.

To NavalDesign,
thankyou very much for all your help!!! it works and is being sent to my email (my other one) sooooo anyway!! thankyou for all your help (and stickting with me through all of this!!) i am very grateful to you!!! now that you can take me off of your list of "people to worry about!!!" i, again, am very grateful to you!! Doomo Arigato Gozaimasu!! xD (sorry about the many thanks!! xDD but i cant help it!)