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Trying to get the submit form to work - confused, please help! Victory 03-17-2008
Posted by Victory on March 17, 2008, 3:12 pm
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 What I have in the webpage is different from what they are telling me
to - I am sorry if this is rudimentary, I apologize in advance, I just
want the form mailer to work!

Here is the "submit part" from my website and below it is the
instructions from my web host on how to make it work:


                                                <br style="line-height:20px;"/>
                                                <form id="form1" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="form1">
                                                        <div>
                                                                <div class="fleft" style="width:221px;">
                                                                        <div class="form"><input type="text" value="First Name:" /></
div>
                                                                        <div class="form"><input type="text" value="Last Name:" /></
div>
                                                                        <div class="form"><input type="text" value="Telephone:" /></
div>
                                                                        <div class="form"><input type="text" value="E-mail Address:" /
></div>
                                                                        <div class="form"><input type="text" value="State / City:" /
></div>
                                                                        <div class="form"><input type="text" value="Country:" /></
div>
                                                                </div>
                                                                <div class="fleft"><img alt="" src="images/spacer.gif"
width="23" height="1" /></div>
                                                                <div class="fleft" style="width:251px;">
                                                                        <textarea name="textarea" cols="20" rows="20">Message:</
textarea>
                                                                        <div class="fright" style="margin-top:3px;"><a class="link1"
href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('form1').reset()"><img
alt="" src="images/but_reset.gif" /></a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a
class="link1" href="#"
onclick="document.getElementById('form1').submit()"><img alt=""
src="images/but_submit.gif" /></a></div>
                                                                </div>
                                                                <div class="clear"></div>
                                                        </div>
                                                </form>


Web host info :
1. Using our pre-installed forms handler

First of all, you must design your form using your desired web design
tools. Once this is done, you must manually edit the HTML code for
your form, some web design software has this feature built in.

You have to modify the following code on your form page:
<form action="/cgi/formmail" method = "POST">
The above code instructs your form to use the Netfirms form handler to
process the form.

NOTE: Do not reference your domain pointer in the form action tag as
that will produce an error message.

2. Specify Recipient E-mail address

Next you must have the following line of code after the form action
tag we entered above:

OR
<input type=hidden name="recipient"
value="you@yourdomain.com,anothername@anotherdomain.com">

This instructs the formmail script where to E-mail the information
entered on the form. Be sure to change you@yourdomain.com to your
actual E-mail address.


Posted by Harlan Messinger on March 17, 2008, 3:40 pm
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 Victory wrote:
> What I have in the webpage is different from what they are telling me
> to - I am sorry if this is rudimentary, I apologize in advance, I just
> want the form mailer to work!
>
> Here is the "submit part" from my website and below it is the
> instructions from my web host on how to make it work:
>
>
> <br style="line-height:20px;"/>
> <form id="form1" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1">
> <div>
[snip]

It would have been helpful for you to remove the excess tabbing before
pasting the code so it would have been legible without us having to copy
and paste it elsewhere and remove the tabs ourselves.

> Web host info :
> 1. Using our pre-installed forms handler
>
> First of all, you must design your form using your desired web design
> tools. Once this is done, you must manually edit the HTML code for
> your form, some web design software has this feature built in.
>
> You have to modify the following code on your form page:
> <form action="/cgi/formmail" method = "POST">
> The above code instructs your form to use the Netfirms form handler to
> process the form.

You didn't do this.

Posted by Victory on March 17, 2008, 3:54 pm
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Sorry about the tabbing, I should have done that.

> > Web host info :
> > 1. Using our pre-installed forms handler
>
> > First of all, you must design your form using your desired web design
> > tools. Once this is done, you must manually edit the HTML code for
> > your form, some web design software has this feature built in.
>
> > You have to modify the following code on your form page:
> > <form action="/cgi/formmail" method = "POST">
> > The above code instructs your form to use the Netfirms form handler to
> > process the form.

> You didn't do this.

No, this is the raw code, I wasn't even sure where to begin.

Posted by Harlan Messinger on March 17, 2008, 5:00 pm
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Victory wrote:
> Sorry about the tabbing, I should have done that.
>
>>> Web host info :
>>> 1. Using our pre-installed forms handler
>>> First of all, you must design your form using your desired web design
>>> tools. Once this is done, you must manually edit the HTML code for
>>> your form, some web design software has this feature built in.
>>> You have to modify the following code on your form page:
>>> <form action="/cgi/formmail" method = "POST">
>>> The above code instructs your form to use the Netfirms form handler to
>>> process the form.
>
>> You didn't do this.
>
> No, this is the raw code, I wasn't even sure where to begin.

Oh, I see what you mean. Well, then, do this! Meaning: replace

        action=""

with

        action="/cgi/formmail"

and also add the missing

        method="post"

inside the FORM tag.

Posted by Victory on March 17, 2008, 5:31 pm
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Ok, thank you for the quick response :
Does this look right now :

<form id="form1" action="/cgi/formmail" enctype="multipart/form-data"
name="form1" method="post" >

I put the METHOD POST inside the FORM tag, and I was guessing this was
the right place for it.
>
> and also add the missing
>
> method="post"
>
> inside the FORM tag.


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