I just installed a PHP Feedback Form page action exactly (I think) as described in the (helpful) tutorial video (episode 18) at softpress. I was careful to name the text fields as described in the video (name, email, message).
When I test it on my live website, I do in fact receive an email from this form, so I know something is working right. But no matter what I do, I cannot get it to pick up the name or the submitters email. Every test I have done comes to me with the text of the message (which strangely is labeled as coming from “item2”, despite the fact I named the text area as “message”…). But both the From and Email fields are listed as “<noreply@>”.
Does anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong and how I get this form to pick up the entries in the name and email text areas?
P.S. I tried turning on debug mode…I am not receiving any errors listed in the emails coming from this Feedback form.
The name that you enter in the first tab of the Inspector has nothing to do with the form field’s true “name” attribute (which is what your form handler script cares about). Depending on how you structured your page, that value you set in the Title field on the first tab will either be ignored entirely when creating the HTML, or it will become the ID of the HTML box that holds the field in place on your page. To properly set the name attribute for your fields, click once on the field, then look in the third tab from the left in the Inspector. That will show you the Name and Value fields, among other settings.
Walter
On Jan 20, 2012, at 3:34 PM, John Strong wrote:
I just installed a PHP Feedback Form page action exactly (I think) as described in the (helpful) tutorial video (episode 18) at softpress. I was careful to name the text fields as described in the video (name, email, message).