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Hi all,

I’m creating my first form in FW Pro 5, I want to capture an email address for sending out e-newsletters. I have created a HTML ‘text field’ box and underneath that a ‘submit button’.
That to me is the easy bit.

How or where can I get a form processing script? Is this a standard thing or does it have to be written specifically for my site?

Look forward to comments.

rgds

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Hi,

there are a couple of options out there, the one I have is easiForm
which will do the form processing side for you if you have PHP on the
server and that it is ioncube friendly.

http://www.easibase.com/freeway/freeway_form.php

Mike

On Oct 16, 2008, at 3:04 PM, lfcredbird7 wrote:

Hi all,

I’m creating my first form in FW Pro 5, I want to capture an email
address for sending out e-newsletters. I have created a HTML ‘text
field’ box and underneath that a ‘submit button’.
That to me is the easy bit.

How or where can I get a form processing script? Is this a standard
thing or does it have to be written specifically for my site?

Look forward to comments.

rgds

Jim

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One place to look would be your ISP or hosting provider. Most hosts
have some form of CGI (FormMail.pl is a popular one) that you can use
to send the contents of a form to you (or some other nominated
address) by e-mail. There are also literally thousands of such
scripts available in all of the popular server-side alphabet soup
languages: Ruby, PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, etc.

Then there’s Tim Plumb’s PHP Feedback Form Action, available at
http://freewayactions.com

You could roll your own, like this:

Make a text file, call it mail.php, and paste the following in it
<?php
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email'])) . "nn";
$e = 'your_email_address';
mail($e,'New Request',$email,'From: your_address','-f' . $e);
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
print 'Thanks!';
?>
Upload that file into your web server space, alongside your other files

Change ‘your_email_address’ above to your actual address. Post your
form to mail.php, and you should see “Thanks!” on the screen and you
should get an e-mail in your in-box, apparently from you, with the e-
mail address that was entered as the body of the message.

More advanced systems would screen the e-mail to make sure it was
well-formed, and would allow you to add it to a database on the
server. But this should get you started.

Walter

On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:04 AM, lfcredbird7 wrote:

Hi all,

I’m creating my first form in FW Pro 5, I want to capture an email
address for sending out e-newsletters. I have created a HTML ‘text
field’ box and underneath that a ‘submit button’.
That to me is the easy bit.

How or where can I get a form processing script? Is this a standard
thing or does it have to be written specifically for my site?

Look forward to comments.

rgds

Jim

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In my example above, the only part that should be in your mail.php file should be the part that begins with <?php and ends with ?>, not the instructions directly above and below inside of the code block. Also, this assumes that your form field is named email in Freeway, if not, adjust as appropriate.

Walter

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Don’t forget “Forms To Go” with Screen-Cast here:

http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/41260

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