Thread: Form Submit Question

Alrighty, I've done something weird to my form and it's acting crazy...my site is www.gooddogsitter.net, and my contact_email page has 2 different forms which a client would complete one or the other.

So, I gave each form different names and directed them to different email accounts I set up in cpanel, and from there different forwarders send them to a single yahoo email account.

Well, the 2nd form works fine, goes to the correct BV email account, but the 1st form won't behave, and keeps going to the 2nd forms BV email account even though I've directed it in form properties to go to a different email account.

Any form guru's out there?

I saw a post by Navaldesign(our forms guru) which stated that you cannot have 2 forms on a single page............check it out, he may have given a solution.

In Fact, you can't. The built in form processor, which is automatically uploaded when the page is published, is unique,so it will take the setting sof one or the other for. That's why all emails are sent to the same email address.

Also, the built in validation will only work for one form ony.

There are workarounds in many ways, but they all require some scriptiong knowledge. An easy one (but only for the submission, not for the validation):

Create a page with a copy of the form that doesn't work, name it (merely as an example) form_clone, use the built in form processor, set the email address / subject / thank you page that you like, set it to be php and publish it.

Go back in the original page (the one with the two forms) and set the action of the form that doesn't work, to be: form_clone.php

Now it should work.

So only 1 form allowed per page?

Carl

That's what i said, unless you trick it as explained.

Thanks everyone, I separated my forms onto individual pages and my email is working like it should. I'm learning, slowly but surely....