Contact Form - What do you recommend?

[franksoprano]

I am in the process of trying to add a contact form to my site where visitors can input their Contact info, address, telephone number etc to my via a form that gets emailed to me from my site..

I have been messing with the formmail.pl script which doesnt seem to work for me, so I found the mail_form.pl script which is pretty much the same thing.. This one however actually lets me submit the form and acknowledges it being sent but when I recieve the email there is no form data with it..

The email message that I recieve reads as follows:


Form Location:

http://www.mydomain.com/formtest.htm

Submitted: Tue Mar 30 02:11:15 EST 2004 from

http://www.mydomain.com

Message from the Mail Form Handler on

http://www.mydomain.com:

There was no form input recieved. Looks like at is running the script from the command-line...

That is what I recieve after form submission.. Does anyone have any idea whats going on with that? Or do you recommend I use a different form processor???


Thanks for your help in advance!!

Frank-

 

[PaulTEG]

Frank,

post the code, and obfuscate your domain information, and also post your html form, just to make sure the form directives are in the right place

--Paul

 

[ChrisHunt]

Sounds like there's a mistake in the HTML on your form page, rather than the script being at fault, since the information entered isn't being passed to the script. Can you post the URL of the form page?

-- Chris Hunt

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[duncdude]

I have written a very basic script that will grab every value on an HTML page and send you an email with the results

it's here:-

http://www.my-mot.co.uk/cgi-bin/dudemail.pl

a sample page:-

<h1>Sample Form</h1>
<form name="form1" method="get" action="

http://www.my-mot.co.uk/cgi-bin/dudemail.pl">

<p>Name<input type="text" name="name"></p>
<p>Age:<input type="text" name="age" size="3"></p>
<p>Address:<textarea name="address"></textarea></p>
<p>Telephone:<input type="text" name="telephone"></p>
<p>Fax:<input type="text" name="fax"></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></p>
[red]<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="franksoprano@whateverisp.com">[/red]
</form>

MUST contain the invisible field as above!


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[PaulTEG]

Duncan,

That's exactly the reason Matt's formmail script was deemed insecure.

What's to stop me writing a form, and passing a value for recipient - hey presto - instant spam gateway

The recipient should only be set up server side, it's a simple job to require a set up script, plus who knows you may get an additional set up fee

Every cloud and all that
--Paul

 

[duncdude]

good point - if he tells me his email address i'll set him up a personal one


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[franksoprano]

Thanks everyone for the response, I figured out what it was... I was going nuts with it, but the solution was to rename formmail.pl to something other then that now it works fine..

I appreciate the responses!


Thanks Again!


FrankSoprano

 

[PaulTEG]

Frank,

Just make sure that the <input type=hidden name=recipient> isn't in your html, or that at least its not the value used for the directed e-mail address

--Paul

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