Form question

Hi,

I’ve made a box model website. I inserted 3 html boxes.
A header, body and footer.

Now, in the body part I want to make a form. Everything is ready but I can’t get the buttons to work if they are in the same html box.

http://www.detoevlucht.be/test/Antwerpen/contact.html

How do i solve this?

Thnx,
David


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What method are you using for the form - are using an action to process it or a form handler script.

There are no Form tags in your online page so no processing information.

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I’m using a form handler script.

Is there a other way to fix this.

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But there is no code in your page to direct the output to a form script!

You have to set it up in Page>Form Setup

There is also Tim Plumb’s excellent PHP Feedback Form action which creates the handler for you http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=019

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If your host supports PHP (which it will) then I would go for Tim’s PHP action - it works great.

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On 9 Apr 2010, at 15:02, DeltaDave wrote:

But there is no code in your page to direct the output to a form script!

You have to set it up in Page>Form Setup

There is also Tim Plumb’s excellent PHP Feedback Form action which creates the handler for you http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=019

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Hi,

That’s strange!
I set it all up in form setup, using the the POST method and hidden fields. It’s formmail.pl

Here is the FW file. Can you see what I do wrong.

http://www.detoevlucht.be/test/test2.zip


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That is your complete site Not the FW file

Just go to the Contact page in FW and have a look under Page>Form setup and see what is there

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http://www.detoevlucht.be/test/toevlucht site 2010.freeway

Sorry here is the FW file.

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That is not a proper link!

If you are going to put it on the server then zip it first and remove server username/password etc

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http://www.detoevlucht.be/test/toevluchtsite2010.zip


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You can copy the contact page and paste it into a new document.

Click on the page icon in the site pane at the left of your screen Edit>Copy

Create a new document File>New use a blank page

Give it a name and somewhere to save it to.

In the site pane of the new doc click on the Site Folder Edit>Paste and your contact page will appear in the site folder

Save the file, close it and then in the finder click on it and Compress it to create a zip file

Then get that to your server and provide a link

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OK - got that

In Form Setup you have the path to your formmail script as http://www.detoevlucht.be/test/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl

Do you really have a cgi-bin at that location? And if you did I suspect that scripts in it wouldn’t work. Generally cgi-bins are at the root of the server ie

yoursite.com/cgi-bin

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I know, but now the buttons “verzenden” and “wissen” are placed in the HTML box. If I put them outside the box it all works fine.


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You have the action to create a reset button from a graphic on the reset but no similar action on the Verzenden

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For the “verzenden” button I only have to check THE submit box in the inspector panel.


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Why not insert a ‘proper’ submit button in there instead and see if that works.

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I did but it didn’t work. Only if I place THE buttons outside THE box


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The other thing that you will have to be careful of when you use this sort of layout for your form is when text is resized then it can/will overlap with your form elements.

Generally it is reckoned that you should layout a form within a table that gives a coherent structure that will keep all your elements together. Especially when resizing text.

Personally I keep clear of using Matt’s formmail script as it is so well known it has become a target for email spammers - or at the very least rename it to something less obvious that will not be spammed.

There are spammers out there looking for that formmail.pl script so that they can abuse it.

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For some reason the Form tags are not being created for your page. Have you tried Tims PHP FF action?

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OK - just found this post and a reply from Tim on a similar question

Hi Vic, This is a know issue when creating box model layout pages. Apply the Multiple Form action (Multiple Form - ActionsForge ) to a parent element and create it manually. Regards, Tim.

Post at http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/56626#m_56635

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