another forms question

[matthias]

Re: another forms question

please i want to have my own website so that i can promote bluevoda.

[JHGD]

Re: another forms question

If you have a <, you have copied invalid code into the HTML box. Looking at your code it contains several errors, so please follow these instructions carefully and ignore any other versions of this script on the forum;)
Anyway here's the correct code and implementation one more time:
1. Create a new page with BlueVoda (let's say feedbackform.bvp)
2. Drag the Form object to the page and a draw a box to indicate the position of the form.
3. Design your form by adding some Form controls to the form:
Buttons, Image Buttons, Advanced Buttons, Checkboxes, Radio buttons, Editboxes, Text Areas and Comboboxes.
You can also make text and images part of the form.

Notice that all objects become a part of the form, so when you change the position of the form all those objects move along.

4. Make sure your form contains a Submit button. Without this button the user will not be able to submit the entered data.

5. Once you have designed your form, you may need to set some properties. Select the form and choose Edit|Properties from the BlueVoda menu.
The most important thing you need to do is specify the form action.
In this case we are going to use a second (PHP) page to process the results of the form and this will be the confirmation page at the same time.
So set the action property to feedback.php
and remove any text from the encoding type property.
6. Publish the feedbackform.bvp page to your VodaHost account.

7. Now let's create the confirmation page using BlueVoda:
8. Create a new page with BlueVoda and save is as 'feedback.bvp'.
9. Select View->Page HTML from the menu
10. Select the Inside Body tag and enter this code:

<?PHP

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "feedback@yourdomain.com";
$mailsubj = "Feedback form";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>
11. Do the usual page formatting with BlueVoda, for example add a textbox with the text "Thanks for your feedback, your comments have been processed!"
12. Select View->Page Properties from the menu
13. Set the file extension to php
14. Publish the page feedback.bvp to your VodaHost account.

Now you have two pages:
1) a page with the feedback form
2) a page that processes the input and displays a confirmation message.

Notes:
- Instead of feedback you can give it any name you like.
- The blue text in the code above can be changed to anything you like, but be sure you keep the double quotes.

Pablo

Pablo

I ahve copied these instructions to the letter. but it still doesn't work . I have Quoteform.html and Quote.php.

When I submit my form I don't get an e mail in my inbox and I the page refers me to Can't find the page in IE !!

What have i done wrong ? Any help would be most welcome !

Thanks

John

[navaldesign]

Re: another forms question

Pablo

I ahve copied these instructions to the letter. but it still doesn't work . I have Quoteform.html and Quote.php.

When I submit my form I don't get an e mail in my inbox and I the page refers me to Can't find the page in IE !!

What have i done wrong ? Any help would be most welcome !

Thanks

John

Give me the URLs of your pages and i'll have a look

[JHGD]

Re: another forms question

Hi

Thanks for responding

the urls are www.jhgd.co.uk/Quoteform.html and www.jhgd.co.uk/Quote.php

Please note that you can at present only access the quote form page from the index page(homepage) the other navigation bars on the other pages have been set to a default of www.jhgd.co.uk/Quote.html cos its working correctly.

Thanks

John

[JHGD]

Re: another forms question

Sorry should read its not working correctly ( the form that is !)

[navaldesign]

Re: another forms question

Sorry should read its not working correctly ( the form that is !)

Well, there are some errors in your form:

1. You have set the "action" to "Quick.php" . As you said, your php page is Quote.php. That's why you get a 404 error. Correct it. It would be wise to change also your pages names in all lower case letters. (q instead of Q)
2. You have three text field, all named "T1" that is the default name given by BV
3. Your Radio buttons don't work. That's because you didn't gave them the same group name (f.e. "Lenght units" for the first two, "Width units" for the second group.)

Another thing: sometimes Encoding"" doesn't work and you have to change it in "multipart/form data". Try first as it is, if it doesn't work try changing it.

[JHGD]

Re: another forms question

Hi

I have altered everything you said and it works beautifully. Thank you so much navaldesign your patience is much appreciated. Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees and longer you look the more you can't see it. Or in my case seeing that Quote is indeed different to the word Quick !

Thanks once again BV is the tops !

John

[Bluenose]

Re: another forms question

<?PHP

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "feedback@yourdomain.com";
$mailsubj = "Feedback form";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>

This all worked fine for me with the script. I want to take it a step further now and instead of having a simple, THANKYOU FOR YOUR FEEDBACK in text on an otherwise blank page, i would like it to happen like this.

Once the form has been submitted and auto sent to my inbox, i would like the re-direct to be straight back to my website and linked to a nicer, more professional page i have already built. I am sure that it is only a case of linking it all up but i wouldnt know where to put it within this script.

Thanks in advance.

[navaldesign]

Re: another forms question

This all worked fine for me with the script. I want to take it a step further now and instead of having a simple, THANKYOU FOR YOUR FEEDBACK in text on an otherwise blank page, i would like it to happen like this.

Once the form has been submitted and auto sent to my inbox, i would like the re-direct to be straight back to my website and linked to a nicer, more professional page i have already built. I am sure that it is only a case of linking it all up but i wouldnt know where to put it within this script.

Thanks in advance.

Just add this line:

header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com/thankyou_page.html");

before the ?> at the end of the script. Change thankyou_page.html to your page name.

[Bluenose]

Re: another forms question

At the moment i am using this script. If you time, could you please type exactly what i should type and tell me where please mate.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Thank you, you will be contacted soon.</TITLE>((dont want this))
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H2>Thank you, you will be contacted soon.</H2>
<?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "my email address";
$mailsubj = "New Order";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>
</BODY>
</HEAD>

[navaldesign]

Re: another forms question

<?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "my email address";
$mailsubj = "New Order";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com/thankyou_page.html");
?>

Copy this code, paste it in Notepad. Go to "Save as" , choose for "File type" "All files" and save it with the same name that you used till now, f.e. "feedback.php". Upload it on your site using Blue FTP. For the thankyou page, create and publish a normal BV page, save it as "thankyou_page" and publish it. You're done.

[Bluenose]

Re: another forms question

your a star, thanks.

[slaughter]

Re: another forms question

I dont know why these forms are so hard as I have read through this forum many times. I'm one of those guys who doesn't like to ask directions so I have gone over my pages and php file many times. I have decided I am now LOST and I need to ask for help.

My page ...
This page is for a COD UO gaming group and we need a recruit form setup.

http://www.toxic-army.com/recruit_form.html

My form property has the Action set at recruit.php and encoding is left blank.
I created a recruit.php by the steps listed above. Check the bluevoda property of recruit.php and its set to php. I have saved both files and published them. The file recruit.php is listed on server side as well.

I get the following error ...

***********
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@toxic-army.lhcgroup.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

***********
What are my next steps?

[navaldesign]

Re: another forms question

In my opinion, it's something in your "recruit.php" script thet causes it. Would you mind uploading the script code?

[slaughter]

Re: another forms question

recruit.php that was created using BlueVoda as note above.

http://www.toxic-army.com/recruit.php

<!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>recruit</TITLE>
<META name="GENERATOR" content="Created by BlueVoda">
<STYLE type="text/css">
div#container
{
width: 800px;
position: relative;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
text-align: left;
}
body
{
text-align: center;
margin: 0;
}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"
<?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "recruit@toxic-army.com";
$mailsubj = "Feedback form";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>>
<DIV id="container">
<DIV style="position:absolute;left:19px;top:20px;width: 150px;height:64px;z-index:0" align="left">
<FONT style="FONT-SIZE:10pt" color="#000000" face="Arial">Thanks for your feedback, your comments have been processed!</FONT>
</DIV>
</DIV>
</BODY>
</HTML>