Contact Form help

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Okay… this may seem simple but its perplexing me. I recently set up a godaddy.com account at band-scape.com and am attempting to set up my form mailer using webformmailer.php. by all accounts it seems as if it “should” be working… however, once I hit submit I am not receiving the mail. here is the code (please let me know if you see any errors).

      <form action="/webformmailer.php" method="post" width="60">
      <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="QUOTE" />
      <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="thankyou.html" />
      <input type="hidden" name="email" value="email@hidden" />
                       <label for="Name" class="style3">Name:</label>
                       <input type="text" name="Name" id="Name" /><br /><br />

                       <label for="City" class="style3">Band:</label>
                       <input type="text" name="City" id="City" /><br /><br />

                       <label for="Email" class="style3">Email:</label>
                       <input type="text" name="Email" id="Email" /><br /><br />

                       <label for="Message" class="style3">Message:</label>
                       <br />
                       <textarea name="Message" rows="4" cols="45" id="Message" width="45"><textarea>
                       <br />

       <input type="hidden" name="form_order" value="alpha"/>
       <input type="hidden" name="form_delivery" value="hourly"/>
       <input type="hidden" name="form_format" value="html"/>

        <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" class="submit-button" />

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While I dont have a hosting account with GoDaddy I do use them for registrations and the first thing that I would be checking is the path to webformmailer.php

Have you tried it with a full path like


http://www.yoursite.com/webformmailer.php

But more importantly you haven’t closed the form tag using

</ form>

But without the space before form - darn this on the web for not showing certain characters properly.

So the last line should be

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" class="submit-button" /> </ form>

Again without that space!

I also see that you have set form_delivery" value=“hourly” - rather than the default - is that what you wanted?

David

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The big issue with GoDaddy is that they block port 25 and force you to use a proxy or a remote SMTP server to send mail. If you use their proxy, they throttle you to 1,000 messages out per day. It’s a common problem, at least once a month someone will post to this list saying that Tim’s PHP Feedback Form Action doesn’t work. 9 times out of 10, the complainant is hosting at GoDaddy.

Walter

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actually that is how dreamweaver cs3 has been closing tags automatically now… (with the space). I was thrown off by it at first, but it hasn’t seem to bother any other tags. however, once I get a chance I will definitely change that… as well as the hourly tag. to be honest it was just one of the tags in the example I saw when I was attempting to find a good form mailer.

and waltd… I have sort of been noticing that as well. would you have any suggestions or alternatives to this script?

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I have been searching all over the internet looking for help to what I believe is a very simple problem. I think this may be the group that will know the answer.

I use godaddy and just tonight tried to use the webformmailer.php for my site. I keep getting a 404 error message that says: “The requested URL /webformmailer.php was not found on this server.”

I am new to this so I am not even sure if I have everything where I need it to be. More specifically, I have never gone to anyplace that deals specifically with webformmailer.php. I have only uploaded an html page to my site with what I am pretty certain is the correct code. So I think the problem is that I have not set up something in the server, etc. I have never downloaded anything because I am under the belief that the software I need is on godaddy.

I have gone and assigned an email address.

Any suggestions?

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Hi Nikki,
From what I understand of GoDaddy accounts they come reconfigured
with one of two form to mail processing scripts. One of these is
called gdform.php and you can read more about it here;
GoDaddy Help Center - Linux Hosting (cPanel) - form parameters
GoDaddy Help Center - Linux Hosting (cPanel) - setting the recipient e-mail
address using the GoDaddy control panel

I’ve recently added support for this script in the PHP Feedback Form
action at;
http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=019
Simply select the “Use Godaddy’s Mail Script” option, set up the
recipient e-mail address in your GoDaddy control panel (see the link
above or click on the button in the action), set the success page and
e-mail title in the action and you should be set. Publish and upload
your site to your server and after submitting the form you should see
the e-mail turn up in your in box.
Regards,
Tim.

On 15 Oct 2009, at 06:53, Nikki Gilbert wrote:

I have been searching all over the internet looking for help to what
I believe is a very simple problem. I think this may be the group
that will know the answer.

I use godaddy and just tonight tried to use the webformmailer.php
for my site. I keep getting a 404 error message that says: “The
requested URL /webformmailer.php was not found on this server.”

I am new to this so I am not even sure if I have everything where I
need it to be. More specifically, I have never gone to anyplace that
deals specifically with webformmailer.php. I have only uploaded an
html page to my site with what I am pretty certain is the correct
code. So I think the problem is that I have not set up something in
the server, etc. I have never downloaded anything because I am under
the belief that the software I need is on godaddy.

I have gone and assigned an email address.

Any suggestions?

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Tim,

Thanks… I am usually much better at figuring these things out but I am completely clueless here and I have no idea what I am supposed to do with those downloaded files

Maybe I should start by showing you what I have coded in my html page that is not working on my site:

First   Last   Maiden 

Email   Class Year          

This is all I have done and absolutely nothing else besides choosing an email address for godaddy to send the information to.

I don’t know if I am supposed to have php software on my computer (aside from what is on godaddy). I have never gone into any place on the godaddy site to make sure that I even have access to the php stuff. All I have done is written code on an html page and uploaded that page to my site on the godaddy server. I keep thinking there is some bid step that I do not know about and have missed.

Thanks for you help,
Nikki

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Nikki,

Kinda of late to the discussion, but I am reseller for Godaddy and to configure the gdform.php file you do it from the hosting control panel. If you are getting a 404 on the webformmailer.php, then either the file is not there or your path is not correct.

Another program that I use and like is the Forms2Go. It is great for creating custom form handler without having to get into the coding to much.

Lem
http://www.tejas-computers.net/

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