I just wonder: data comes in from the filled in forms, but the way we received it is quite ‘straight forward’. Is there a way they can be received like a pdf or Word document in a standard nice template?
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What sort of form handler are you using right now? It is possible to make almost anything with a form input, but it does take some programming chops. PHP can make a PDF or an RTF file natively. Word DOC is a proprietary format, but Word can read RTF without any trouble, and that gets you quite a lot of styling possibilities.
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Hi Paul,
If you want to invest some time in the styling you could always have
the server send the form data back as an HTML mail rather than in
plain text. Your feedback form processing script would then simply
inject the correct data into your HTML template and use this as the
basis of your email reply.
Regards,
Tim.
On 29 Aug 2008, at 21:40, paulvw wrote:
I just wonder: data comes in from the filled in forms, but the way
we received it is quite ‘straight forward’. Is there a way they can
be received like a pdf or Word document in a standard nice template?
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Aha! So… I am using your action. That produces automatically a plain format, or am I missing out something?
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Hi Paul,
Unfortunately not. The action keep things simple by only producing
plain text mails. If you wanted to you could take the ‘-go.php’ file
the action generates and manually modify it to add HTML support and
inject your form data into your given template design. This would all
have to be done manually however.
Regards,
Tim.
On 29 Aug 2008, at 22:57, paulvw wrote:
Aha! So… I am using your action. That produces automatically a
plain format, or am I missing out something?
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I I am looking for a designer who can take my existing web page simply make it better.
I run a surf tour company in Nicaragua and I have professional quality surf photos arriving daily
I would like to make a templet to give to the photographer so he can update his personal page at his leisure.
I would like it to have it’s own sub-domain so he would only be affecting his own “corner”.
after we get this done I’d love to tackle the rest of the site.
please see
http://www.nicasurf.com/surfupdate/86.html
dale dagger
I see… that is indeed a challenge, since I am not a PHP programmer… So any format I would like to have as output I need to program that somehow. That makes it indeed a bit more complicated. Wow… Tim… why not adjusting your action a bit and make it shareware 
… I would be happy with that option!
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You might want to look at easiForm, the data is formatted differently
with the message the recipient receives as to that the confirmation to
the sender receives.
http://www.easibase.com/freeway/freewayactions.php
You also have a couple of things you can control with this although
the next update of easiForm will offer a couple of different
formatting options beyond that supplied at the moment. You can set it
up to make sure it suits what you need, the demo state of the actions
will still send the forms but you will need your srver to be ioncube
friendly.
BTW, if you send a test message from the form on the easibase website
you will get a confirmation and can see how that is formatted,
although currently the recipient email is simpler.
HTH
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Not using the Action.
Seriously, though, you do want to actually receive these mail
messages, right? Sending HTML mail is an excellent way to have your
message flagged as spam by your ISP (not your Mac, which you can
control) and canned immediately. Here’s why:
When you use PHP to compose and send mail messages, you are relying on
a function of the PHP/Sendmail system on your Web server to “spoof”
the headers of the e-mail message, making it appear to come from some-
named-user(a)yourdomain.com rather than
www245(a)yourhostingproviderpdomain.com. This spoofing does not go un-
noticed by the mail server receiving the mail. It raises the base
suspicion level of this message above normal.
Then add into this the further suspicious flag that is HTML content –
a noted feature of many if not most spam e-mails – one which any
Bayesian filter is already hair-trigger attuned to.
Add these two together, and unless you are either lucky or have
invested serious hours tuning your server or your spam filter, you are
almost guaranteed not to get the message until (and if) you spot it in
the quarantine filter hours or days later.
For something as business-critical as form input, you should not take
a pleasant layout as being more important than actually getting the
data in the first place.
/soapbox
Walter
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I get funny signs (‰, å , ˆ,) instead of language specific letters in answer from PHP Feedback form. Is it possible avoid that?
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It took a while but got a good answer to the original question. Thanks Walter. Indeed, if that is the downside I prefer a non-formatted reply.
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It took a while but got a good answer…
Sorry Paul - must have missed it back in August.
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Hi Ulf,
Currently the action doesn’t support extended character sets including
double-byte languages like Japanese or even Latin accented characters.
I’m hoping to address this shortcoming in a future version of the
action.
Regards,
Tim.
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I get funny signs (‰, å , ˆ,) instead of language specific
letters in answer from PHP Feedback form. Is it possible avoid that?
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