Hi Can anyone help on this? its fairly urgent…
I’m designing a site with a form in it, but all i get in my email box when i press the ‘send’ button, is a blank email.
Many thanks
steve
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I took a look at your page code…very confusing. What I think you should do first is go back and make sure that none of your form field names are duplicated. For example it appears you have two fields with the name “property1”.
There also appears to be more than one post command. That may be intentional, but check you meant to do that.
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hello again chuck!
thanks for looking at the site. appreciated.
I have checked that none of the form field names are the same. Do i just select them, the inspector turns to ‘text field’ and check under ‘properties’ and ‘Name’. ?
Also, what is a post command?
Thanks again
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There’s one possible point of confusion here. In the Inspector, there
are four tabs across the top. The one that matters here is the third
from the left – the output tab – on that tab is where you set the
field name. You can set the Title for the field on the left-most
(default) tab, and that might change the name as well, but the two
are actually independent of each other.
Walter
On Sep 30, 2008, at 2:28 PM, steve wrote:
I have checked that none of the form field names are the same. Do i
just select them, the inspector turns to ‘text field’ and check
under ‘properties’ and ‘Name’. ?
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Somehow Freeway has gotten hopelessly confused about your form. There
are many separate FORM tags on the page, perhaps as many as one per
input. You’re not getting all the fields because they are not all
within the same form.
Is the PHP Feedback Form Action applied to the page, or to each field
separately? (I don’t know how it’s supposed to be used, but that’s
something to check.)
Walter
On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:56 PM, steve wrote:
Hi Can anyone help on this? its fairly urgent…
I’m designing a site with a form in it, but all i get in my email
box when i press the ‘send’ button, is a blank email.Many thanks
steve
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hi walter
thanks. Oh yes, i see there was two boxes called ‘property2’.
can you explain the ‘post command’.?
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The field names are under the third icon from the left in the Inspector pallet. These settings options change to form specific if you have a form object selected.
Post command…yeah. Exactly how did you create this form? Did you use an action?
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Hi chucka
i created the form by selecting, under ‘html’ menu, i selected the ‘text field’ choice, and drew the shapes. then grouped them and actioned them with the php action i downloaded from…i think a link from this site.
Probably not the best way to do it?
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A form has a method attribute, which is usually either ‘get’ or
‘post’. Yours uses the ‘post’ method, and that’s just fine. Either
one will do. But a form needs to contain all of the elements that it
is meant to submit at once:
<form method="post" action="your_form_handler.php">
<input type="text" name="name" />
<input type="text" name="rank" />
<input type="text" name="serial_number" />
<input type="submit" value="Tell Me!" />
</form>
That’s a complete form. What you have is more like this:
<form method="post" action="your_form_handler.php">
<input type="text" name="name" />
</form>
<form method="post" action="your_form_handler.php">
<input type="text" name="rank" />
</form>
<form method="post" action="your_form_handler.php">
<input type="text" name="serial_number" />
</form>
<form method="post" action="your_form_handler.php">
<input type="submit" value="Tell Me!" />
</form>
Each element is on its own little (form) island, and as a result, you
only get the submit button, which has no value. If you were to put
your cursor in the rank field above, type something in, and press the
Return key on your keyboard, that mini-form would submit, and all you
would get is the rank. In contrast, if you were to submit the top
form, with all four fields inside one form tag, you would get the
value of the three text inputs all in one whack.
Walter
On Sep 30, 2008, at 2:38 PM, steve wrote:
hi walter
thanks. Oh yes, i see there was two boxes called ‘property2’.
can you explain the ‘post command’.?
Thanks
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ah, I follow you. So - how would i change mine? I’ve not ‘created’ as such, the html lines…so how do i instruct freeway do this for me?
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Ok, as Walt mentioned your form is muddled in the extreme. Sounds like you are using the PHP Feedback Form action which is fine. This may not be what you want to hear, but I would toss all the form elements at this point.
Create a fresh new page just to get this form designed. Start by creating a table the size you need the form to be on the page it will end up on and since it is a single column should be easy. Make sure you include enough table rows to handle the inbetween text headers as well as the send button. Once that is done, click inside each table row to get flashing cursor, then from the Insert Menu add the form elements one by one. You can resize them once they are inside the table if you need to.
Once that is complete, select the table (not the form fields), go to Item menu and add the PHP Feedback From action to it. Make sure settings in action are correct.
One you throw away all the old form elements you previously did, copy and paste the new form onto page it needs to go on.
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thanks chucka
Just before i do that - can you check out the old site i designed? I just uploaded it to see if the original form worked…
and for some reason this form works perfectly??!
Thanks very much to you both for being great sports!
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Yes, on this page there only appears to be one form tag, not one per
field as the other did.
If you constructed them in the same manner, then I don’t know what
could have happened. Was there any variation between how you laid out
the page, and how you applied the action from one to the other?
Walter
On Sep 30, 2008, at 3:11 PM, steve wrote:
thanks chucka
Just before i do that - can you check out the old site i designed?
I just uploaded it to see if the original form worked…and for some reason this form works perfectly??!
Thanks very much to you both for being great sports!
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Hmm, it is a bit more clear on this version. It appears you put each form field in it’s own html box. Yes? If so you have made your life much more difficult to keep track of all those pieces, but it should work. So if this form works as is…why not reuse it?
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well, I did! i just copied and pasted it into the new design…but something changed…dont know what thought!! aarggggh!
ye, i put each form field in its own html box. It is my first site, as you can guess! not the easiest approach…i had a look at tables, but they looked pretty confusing.
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hey chucka
I copied and pasted the form in from the other…and it works! dont know what happened…i will endevour to use your advice with the tables in the future…good night, and good luck. No doubt see you on the site again
thanks for your time and help.
sincerely
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Ok, try just putting up a page with just the form on it as a test. Get it working that way first then move to it’s permanent page.
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Also…just a little critique. The kerning of the graphic text you are using on the sub heading under the large photo is horrendous. Please fix. 
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I copied and pasted the form in from the other…and it works! dont know what happened…i will endevour to use your advice with the tables in the future…good night, and good luck. No doubt see you on the site again
thanks for your time and help.
sincerelysteve
Terific! My pleasure 
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hey chucka!
I had a look at the text under the big picture…looks ok to me…what browser are you using?
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