form help

[brianinportland]

My 1st, in trying to use BV's form maker hit a snag when there was no php html text to cut / paste, even though I'd made my form w a php extension. Someone's help on this would be GREAT. I can forward the html, etc - feeling really stuck and frustrated!!


Then with my try #2 to have a working form,I have these issues / questions. I've no problem accepting I'm a dull knife in the drawer when it comes to webbing - but REALLY - REEEAAALLLYY detailed instructions and same page trouble shooting would be very helpful for BV to adopt.


My 2nd try @ a form:
I've a request to help me or forward to the right person re Form Maker Pro from http://www.vodahost.com/fmpdocs/

Issue 1: I've unzipped Form Maker Pro, but when the instructions say, "Upload the entire fmp folder into your public_html directory (including the folder)"

Question 1: When I try to upload the folder it won't do it. I could create a folder called fmp in my cpanel, but that's not what the instructions call for. There are tons of files in there. How can I do this right?


Issue 2: the instructions say, "You will need FTP software to do this, BlueVoda has a built in FTP manager. or you can use any other FTP software like SmartFTP or ws_ftp."

Question: Does this happen automatically, and I upload just as I have for my public files, or do I need to use some ftp-related uploading process?


This is in the instruction's next line: public_html/fmp

What if any bearing has this on this task?


Thanks for you/ yours getting back to me.

Brian

[navaldesign]

Re: ongoing struggles to make my form WORK!!

When you connect with FTP you simpoly drag / drop the entire fmp folder from your computer to your site. This will has as result the following:
1. A folder called fmp will be created inside your public_html folder (it will be a subfolder of public_html)
2. The entire content of the fmp folder in your computer (including subfolders and files) will be copied, with the excactly same structure, in your site, inside this fmp folder.

At this point you may proceed with installation.

Please note that BlueFTP leaves out files when a complicated (as the one here) folder structured is uploaded as a total, so i suggest that you use another FTP from the ones suggested (SmartFTP or ws_ftp).

[brianinportland]

Re: form help

Hi Naval design guy - I've gotten much from your other postings - and LadyEye has bee of help too as I gain proficiency in web-land,

Here's an update:

I clicked on the tutorial link for blue ftp (it would help if the text read, click here for blueftp tutorial).

I'm assuming when the text reads " chmod the the entire fmp folder to 755 unless you are on the voda2 sever IP 70.86.30.66 you will chmod the the entire fmp folder to to 777" that I'm to change the entry in the file manager column called permission from what it is now (0755 ) to 777. Yes/no/other?

following text of the next step " Run "install.php" with your web browser. Example >>>. http://www.YourDomain.com/fmp/install.php

i opened a new tab, entered http://www.bikempowered.com/fmp/install.php
and got this error note "Not found
The requested URL /fmp/install.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Server at www.bikempowered.com Port 80
end error note.

I'll have to figure out how to retrieve email to brian@bikemepowered.com one day soon. I hope the instructions for it are simple.

I'm a near-complete novice to all this, which is why I'm stressing the need for very easy to follow directions. They're usually good, but I've gotten lost more than once in the places where the directions are not spelled out.In the meantime, I've been continuing to try to fix the still non-functioning bvp form - http://www.bikempowered.com/reply2fix.html. tried both action.php and mailto@www.bikemepowered.com in thank you properities. After typing in line by line from what was shown in teh tutorial screen (as I did not have any php in my html text) I got a new msg why trying to submit. it reads, "please enter only letter characters in the first name field" - I've tried both no restrictions and text as field options - same resulting error msg.

Lastly there's the page called enroll, http://www.bikempowered.com/enroll2fix.html - for students to select a 1st, 2nd and 3rd pick of dates for class dates, but it's going to need php html language too.


Thanks as always for your help and patience.

Brian

notes item #1:
the php code I typed in from tutorial screen and inserted after the
<title>thank</title> line ( as seen in the tutorial)
<?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS(email);
$mailto = “brian@www.bikempowered.com“;
$mailsubj = “Contact 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))
{
end of tutorial screen - don't know past this point . . .

note #2:





html from thanks page:


<!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>thank</title>

<meta name="AUTHOR" content="Brian Lacy">
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="Bicycle, repair, bicycling, empowered, cycling, Portland, healthy, lifestyle, fit, motivation, coaching, skills, group, fun, goals, riding, health, family, commute, commuting, pleasure, sport, exercise, urban, ">
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="index home page">
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=2)">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Created by BlueVoda">
<script type="text/javascript" src="./jscookmenu.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
.MenuBarMenuBar1Menu,.MenuBarMenuBar1SubMenuTable
{
font-family: Papyrus, arial, sans-serif;
font-size:16px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #F44917;
font-weight: normal;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
cursor: pointer;
}
.MenuBarMenuBar1SubMenu
{
position: absolute;
visibility: hidden;
border: 0;
padding: 0;
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.MenuBarMenuBar1SubMenuTable
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border-top: 1px solid white;
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.MenuBarMenuBar1Menu td
{
padding: 0px 3px 0px 3px;
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white-space: nowrap;
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</head>
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<font style="font-size:24px" color="#000000" face="Papyrus"><b><i>empowering your cycling goals</i></b></font></div>
<div id="bv_" style="position:absolute;left:16px;top:16px;width: 144px;height:25px;z-index:2" align="left">
&nbsp;</div>
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<font style="font-size:16px" color="#000000" face="Papyrus">Thank you for getting invovled with BIKEmpowered.&nbsp; I'll be intouch with you as soon as possible to further these steps to reach your goals.&nbsp; Click<a href="http://bikempowered.com/index.html"> here</a> or above for further cycling through BE's website.<br>
<br>
Brian </font></div>
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thanks in advance for your help