Contact page

I am about done with my site (everybody, together now…yeah!) but I’m stopped cold on contact page

I don’t see much of anything in the Freeway Help on it and most of the postings on this site are very packed with jargon for my newbie brain.

Are contact forms all third-patty or is there some way to do this within Freeway?

All I want is a simply contact form that triggers an e-mail to me.

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Try Tim Plumb’s PHP Feedback Form on http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=019
You will need PHP on your Web server, which is pretty much
guaranteed to be there in any hosting environment. You will need to
not be on Hostbaby hosting, because their sendmail is broken and their
support people are too lazy to fix it.

Walter

On Jul 4, 2009, at 2:20 PM, SkipII wrote:

All I want is a simply contact form that triggers an e-mail to me.


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May I suggest taking a look at: http://www.formspring.com

Even quite complex forms can be created quickly in this third party application and the code simply inserted into your Freeway page.

May not sit happily with the purist’s out there but I’ve used Formspring for a couple of years and it deliveries a fast, easy and reliable solution to online forms. No… I’m not on the payroll but if the vendors are watching a discount on my modest subscription would be welcome LOL

Steve


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First question is does Freeway have anything itself?
Can I just have a hyperlink on the contact page that opens up a mail server pre-addressed to me?


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Short answer, yes you can do that. Long answer, it’s taking a huge
risk that the end-user’s computer is set up correctly, that the end
user is savvy enough to realize what has happened and to press Send
when they’re done filling in the details of the message. Forms also
don’t expose your real e-mail address to all the zombies out there in
the intertubes.

If you really, really want to do this, you can create a link like this:

mailto:you(a)example.com?Subject=Contact%20From%20The%20Web&Body=This%20is%20the%20body 
.

Note that in the line above, I replaced the @ sign with a (a) so that
the Web forum wouldn’t turn the address into email@hidden and confuse
things. You’re making a URL here, so all spaces have to be escaped
with %20, other special characters like returns and certain
punctuation also need to also be escaped. I have a tool on line that
can translate this for you.

http://freewaypro.com/mailto

Don’t go crazy here – there is a real hard limit to the length of a
URL that IE will understand. Other browsers go on to ridiculous,
Tolstoy-like lengths, but poor crippled IE falls over and plays dead
after about 800 characters.

Some mail applications won’t let you populate the body like this, only
the subject. You’ll have to experiment.

Seriously, use the Forms, Luke. It’s better all around.

Walter

On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:11 PM, SkipII wrote:

First question is does Freeway have anything itself?
Can I just have a hyperlink on the contact page that opens up a mail
server pre-addressed to me?


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Freeway talks about a contact form on this link:

Is this the kind of form that does not expose my e-mail to spybots? If so, why would I need to use third-party?


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If you read through this, you will see that it is a nice set of
instructions for Tim Plumb’s PHP Feedback Form Action. Use it, you
won’t regret it.

Freeway, on its own, cannot process any forms. It can create them all
day long, but then it’s up to you to create a form handler of one sort
or another to run on your server and process that form submission.
Otherwise, the form data just goes “on the floor” and is forgotten by
the server.

Walter

On Jul 6, 2009, at 8:19 PM, SkipII wrote:

Freeway talks about a contact form on this link:

Creating a Contact Form in Freeway - Freeway - Softpress Talk

Is this the kind of form that does not expose my e-mail to spybots?
If so, why would I need to use third-party?


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Many thanks, I was about to post on this very same subject!
MAtt


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