That’s it? That’s all one needs to create an e-mail form? Here I thought I’d need a DB set up and ready to go. Very cool.

Yep, it definitely won’t actually send the e-mail and I’m not sure why. Everything is done as directed… could it be my hosting service, GoDaddy.com’s issue?

@Bildo
Just check with your Host and see whether you are able to relay through their mail servers. It sounds like that may be the issue

Cheers
Daniel

Great and simple. Although the continue link doesn’t take me to the page i intend. it goes straight to the php page and then I have to click the coninue button. Any way of just linking straight to the intended page?

also the thing doesn’t work in Safari?!

I have followed the instructions but it didnt work. As ssoon as I press the submit button it isays page cannot be found.

Thanks,
ilker

@Iker and @lee

Make sure you check that the file is in the correct location and that the Form Action value is exactly the same as the file name (case sensitive).

Cheers

Daniel

@timmy

I have heard bad things about GoDaddy as well. I use BlueHost and Highly recomment them

Check them out here if you want to change.

Cheers

Daniel

it doesn’t work for me (i followed the tutorial and got the same results as ilker “file not found” and no email was recieved.)

G’day Everyone

Thanks for all your comments. It seems a lot of people are having issues with GoDaddy. From what I can gather they do not allow you to run 3rd Party Scripts. If that is the case then this will not work.

If anyone has recommendations for these people on Hosts that they use then please share your thoughts. As I have said in an earlier comment I use BlueHost and find them really good.

On another note a few people have emailed me with problems like “File Not Found Error”. Just make sure that you double check the file location and also the name of the file. It is case sensitive so that is causing the issue for some.

Cheers

Daniel

Hey just to let you all know, for Godaddy you just change the FormTomail.php to gdform.asp
Thanks for your help in setting up the forms though!

Dude it works. I had to capitalize the ‘T’ in FormToEmail but that was a quick fix and you rock.
Stay coo.

I really hope you can help me. I have spent days trying to set up a Reply Form on my website using “Matt’s Script Archive” etc and when I came across your website I thought yipee! I have copied the file FormtoEmail.php into my root website directory (its there twice actually as FormToEmail.php too) and the file which contains the actual form - programmed as follows (to match your instructions). I get a 405 Error which is a “website programming error”. Please help.

Name:

Company:

Email:

[...] the contact and links page, i used a step by step guide at http://dreamweaverspot.com/adobe-dreamweaver-tutorial-contact-forms/ which helped me insert a contact form on my [...]

Short, sweet, and to the point. Most importantly, very helpful. Should be more attractive, in terms of images and colors, but the content really worked/helped.

Great tut, everything is working great. One question though. Is there a way to make the thank you message a popup?

@John
I am not to familiar with WAMPSERVER from what I can gather it is Apache, PHP, MySQL on Windows right?

For this to work you need to have an SMTP Server to be able to send the mail.

Cheers

For others, the reason you are getting not found errors is that in the TUT it doesn’t capitalize the ‘T’. Check your case.

My issues is that once I hit submit on the site, it says that YOU CANNOT SUBMIT AN EMPTY FORM

ANy idea why this is?

I am having what looks to be the same issue where everything works great but I don’t get the emails. Where in the code does the mail server info go? I use Gmail, will this work?

Thank you so much. It was very easy and helpful…

[...] tutorial is from Dreamweaver Spot that give you info about how to create a PHP contact form for your [...]

I fallowed the tutorial but the e-mails are not being sent to my inbox. Everything else is working properly. I use Yahoo as a host. Is there anything else I need to do?

Thanks

Have set it up and works as it should, HOWEVER: when i receive emails from the form, it shows up as having no sender, and as a result it goes straight to spam filter. My spam filter will not allow me to add it to safe senders list, because of this reason (no sender info). Can i adjust the script so that there is a sender field in the email??
thanks

@Casa

This usually means that the server does not support PHP, contact their Tech Support and find out.

Cheers
Daniel

Brilliant tutorial, thank you! After I got out of trying to think ahead and followed your instructions it’s integrated and working great! I’ve even managed to make it work with graphical fields and several other functions. Very impressed. Thanks for your help!

When I hit submit it tries to download the FormToMail.php

my site is hosted on mac.com

Thanks for the definition of a great tut. However, when I hit the submit button it gives me the following view:
64 || empty($exploded_email[1])){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{if(substr_count($exploded_email[1],”.”) == 0){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{$exploded_domain = explode(”.”,$exploded_email[1]);if(in_array(”",$exploded_domain)){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{foreach($exploded_domain as $value){if(strlen($value) > 63 || !preg_match(’/^[a-z0-9-]+$/i’,$value)){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”; break;}}}}}} } // Check referrer is from same site. if(!(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))){$errors[] = “You must enable referrer logging to use the form”;} // Check for a blank form. function recursive_array_check_blank($element_value) { global $set; if(!is_array($element_value)){if(!empty($element_value)){$set = 1;}} else { foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_blank($value);} } } recursive_array_check_blank($_REQUEST); if(!$set){$errors[] = “You cannot send a blank form”;} unset($set); // Display any errors and exit if errors exist. if(count($errors)){foreach($errors as $value){print “$value
“;} exit;} if(!defined(”PHP_EOL”)){define(”PHP_EOL”, strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3) == “WIN”) ? “\r\n” : “\n”);} // Build message. function build_message($request_input){if(!isset($message_output)){$message_output =”";}if(!is_array($request_input)){$message_output = $request_input;}else{foreach($request_input as $key => $value){if(!empty($value)){if(!is_numeric($key)){$message_output .= str_replace(”_”,” “,ucfirst($key)).”: “.build_message($value).PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;}else{$message_output .= build_message($value).”, “;}}}}return rtrim($message_output,”, “);} $message = build_message($_REQUEST); $message = $message . PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL.”– “.PHP_EOL.”"; $message = stripslashes($message); $subject = “FormToEmail Comments”; $headers = “From: ” . $_REQUEST['email']; mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers); ?>
Thank you
Your message has been sent

Click here to continue

HELP!!!

hi

the form works awesome! I could be wrong, but I think that you would have to change the javascript to have mutiple forms to different e-mails on the same page, correct? What needs to be changed in the code to do this?

Hi mate,

I have the same issue as Justin. When I hit the submit button it also attemps to download the “FormToEmail.php” file? What could be causing this?

Many thanks and great tutorial

This is fucking outstanding! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I was struggling until I hit this page. You’re my hero…for today.

I 2nd that. I can’t tell you how much i appreciate this.

I tried several different form codes until I got to yours. Thanks so much! My emails are going through just fine. My issue is being able to send a blank form. I would like for the information to be required. Looks like your php file is telling it to look, so any ideas what the problem might be? I appreciate your help greatly. This was a huge help.

I cant get this thing to work. tried 2 times. I use 1&1 and they support php

Dear Daniel,
Its looks cool. I have done all but not yet uploaded.Will be posting result after upload.
You are simply great and u deserve a big prayer.

Thanks, this is great, very helpfull. It’s all working except that it doesn’t seem to detect blank forms (as others have found) although the code looks as though it should. It detects invalid characters in the email OK. Tested under both PHP4 and 5.

Problem solved - If you’ve clicked the Submit button, the array $_REQUEST is never blank as it contains an element with key (name) “Submit” and value “Submit”.
In function recursive_array_check_blank($element_value), change the line

foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_blank($value);}

to

foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} if ($value != “Submit”) {recursive_array_check_blank($value);}}

Note that this code is working with the ‘value’ of the form’s object (i.e. the text that appears on the button), not the ‘name’ of the object.

Hey Dan,

Get one tx a million, had the text issue when page not found due to capital T in the MailToForm. Sorted that now though. Question though, is there a way to auto redirect away from the results page back to the website home page?

Hopefully someone can help me. Everything works fine, except I don’t get any email reply. I am using Go Daddy, and I tried changing the php file name as the person above suggested…but still nothing. The website is sueellenking.net…click on “Request A Quote” on the right hand side and the form will come up. I fill everything out, hit submit, get the thank you page and no email. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.

Hey, I was wondering about this tutorial. I have done everything on the tut but when I try it out in the browser the form just resets itself and then nothing is sent to my email and the page is not reset to my homepage. Any input on this?

Dan,

Hooray! Please disregard my above comment, I did some scouting around on your site and found your amazing little article on form validation. Plugged that in and it works wonderfully now! You have been awesome, and I am definitely going to be a frequent vistor on your site.

Thanks a million! If you’re ever in Florida let me know and I’ll bake you some cookies! :O)

-The happiest graphic designer in Orlando

I have got the form to work in some sense, I can fill out the information and then when I press SEND the thank you page comes up, but no email was sent. How long does it take to get the email of stuff?

works awesome.

Thanks man this is an absolute charm!!! Thanks for sharing this tute with us.

Hi Dan,

Great script. It all works fine except for one minor problem my end. I am building a secure login site using a combination of HTML and PHP. At the moment I am hosting my site using MAMP on my local machine.

The problem is when I submit the form. I get the correct response but no email appears in my inbox? Any suggestions?

I can’t get it to work for some reason. I think it may be my host. I have Yahoo! Small Business web hosting. I know that we are allowed to send up to 250 emails from a third party per day, but I’m not sure why your form isn’t working. I never receive the emails!

Great stuff. Worked first time. Much appreciated.

Mine is working perfectly thank you very much, the only problem is that i recieve the contact form with al its info to my e-mail, but i recieved it as if i was sendind it to everyone. dont know if i explained myself.
E.g.
my e-mail is (example) popcorn@you.com and every single form i recieve is addresed that was sent by popcor@you.com

Why is that happening? I rechecked the hole script and my e-mail is nowhere to be found, where is the contact for getting that e-mail from? And what is the default sender supposed to be? The website? http://www.mycompany.com

Oh, thanks man! I hate scripting and I have finally found the holy grail of websites to help ease my pain. Thanks!

Hi,

I have the same problem Justin discribed earlier:

I followed this tutorial for a form on my site, however whenever i go to send the message and click the submit button, it trys to download the “FormToEmail.php” file?
My form action is exactly as yours, and my php file is as exaclty as yours is.
any help?

Thanks
Theo

Thanks for this tutorial.
Only problem I have is:
If I enter the email with some errors in it I have a message that says:
Email address is invalid
How do I center this error message… Also my contact form is in a table with graphics behind it.
I was able to trhow in my table in the php file so the thank you not is inside my table.
But for the error message, its not working… any ideas?

*** FOR PEOPLE RECIEVEING TEH FIle NOT FOUND PROBLEM!***

The file not found problem may be happening to people who are followoing step 5, and actually copying the line of code. in step 5 is says “FormtoEmail.php” when the file is actually named “FormToEmail.php” capitol T. change that and it will sort the issue

Now a question - How can we stop the mails goign straight to jumk???

excellent stuff. you make it so simple.
thanks.

If you have GoDaddy, cerify whether or not you are using Linux or Window hosting. If your site is hosted on a Linux server, .php will work without a problem. If you have a windows server, .asp is the type of scripting you need.

According to support at GoDaddy, they do not have any limitation or restrictions on php scripts - at least not on Deluxe hosting. Free hosting may be different, but it would be worth your time to ask. Their support has been very helpful.
i had to request my site to be moved to Linux servers in order for the php scripting to work, which will take 24-72 hours before it is switched over. But worth the wait to make sure I can do what I need to get my site up and running. So before you spend days trying to figure out why the php script wont work, check your hosting first to see if you have Linux or Windows. This could potentially be your problem, as it was mine.
Have a Great Day!

I’m getting a message stating, “You cannot send a blank form”. Any suggestions? The web designer that created the site no longer works here. She used your FormToEmail.php for our contact page, which works, and our “Sign up for updates” (on every page), which doesn’t work. Do you know why it works in one spot but not the other? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Yes, we are using GoDaddy.com and we are on a linux server but I’m assuming that has nothing to do with the problem since it is working on the “contact us” form. I saw this code in the php form,

if(!$set){$errors[] = “You cannot send a blank form”;}

Does this have anything to do with it?

Thanks for a brilliant tutorial, but I have a query. Once I click submit, I am getting the following error:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 A valid From header is required for bounces in E:\Inetpub\saiipl\FormToEmail.php on line 116

I followed your instructions. But, I’m not sure how to insert the form on an existing page? I want to add it to the bottom of a page with all the field box visable and not have to go to a diffrent contact page. Can you give me any help.

Thank you

thanks this contact form works well for me
very good tutorial thanks again

How can I make the fields required and remove the submit: submit in the emails?

Thanks this works great!

The funny thing is that I used the script forone website (www.triniteedesigns.com) and it works fine, I then went to use it for my personnal site, but I am having problems. Both are hosted by Go daddy. Has anyone gotten to the bottom of the issue?

Thanks Tim

finally! i found a working tutorial! thnx dude!

I’m wondering how to do 2 more things with this code. I want to e-mail the results to 2 e-mails and I want to e-mail the user’s IP address too. How do I do that? Thanks.

Wow! Thanks so much Daniel! It works great!

I also had the 404 not found error, but I did exactly what Cynthia said, and boom! all fixed!!

I seem to get the following errors when loading the form as per tutorial

Help anyone

Thanks
Shaun

hi, I am really not good at Dreamweaver, but I got it right!
one thing is that I don’t get name or comments in my e-mail.
I just get there e-mail.
What am I doing wrong…?

!!!!!!!
I got it!
I was making the Form for each “email” “name” and “Submit”
That’s why I only saw “submit” when i got email.
THank you~! this is wonderful!

Thanks mate - good tutorial!

Thank you for the tutorial and free script, however I have just tested it and I get the following message upon submitting the form: You must enable referrer logging to use the form.

Any suggestions as to why this is occurring??

i do it by tutorial. When i click on submit button. It write: Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /FormToEmail.php on this server.

Bryce (See April 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pm), capitalized the ‘T’ in FormToEmail solved the problem. Cheers.
Thanks a lot Daniel!!!!!!

HI!! Thanks it is awesome and it worked!!

I’ve still got one problem though. I tried to add a drop down list, however the value of the drop down list item did not arrive in my inbox together with the rest of the information.

Anything I can do to make this work?

Thanks again.

If anyone hasnt figured out yet how to put a subject or who the mail is from you need to mod. this sting..

Lines 112 - 114 on my comp.

$subject = “FormToEmail Comments”;

$headers = “From: ” . $_REQUEST['email'];

To this (make it whatever you want, this is just what mine looks like)

$subject = “Question From Customer “;

$headers = “From: Way-BrightPools” . $_REQUEST['email'];

That way you can mark it as safe and it wont go into your junk folder! Hope that helps some ppl! Took me few hrs to fig that out lol

Hey, Everything looks good and seems to work, but once I hit submit its taking me to the thank you page, but I never get any of the emails. I tried a few different emails and none of them get any message sent. Please Help!!

You guys are great.
I had a client who wanted a form immediately reading this tutorial I managed to create one chack it at http://www.exoticafricansafaris.com its working like magic

Kudos guys

http://www.bonusproductions.com/ContactForm.html

I have followed your instructions exactly. Everything else works, except that I never receive anything in my email. I use Yahoo for my webhost. I called them today, and they say everything is working on their end. I described to them what I have done, and they said it sounds like I did it correctly. This is the last thing I need to do on my website. If you could help me solve this problem, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Cheryl

When I hit submit I get the thank you page, but no email actually shows up. What did I do wrong? Help Please.

Great help -
One little quirk - In Firefox, the “Submit” button reads “Submit Query” - I think this comes off a little wonky, and I would like to fix it -

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kris

Ok so my form looks great but when i push submit i get 64|| empty($exploded_email[1])){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{if(substr_count($exploded_email[1],”.”) == 0){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{$exploded_domain = explode(”.”,$exploded_email[1]);if(in_array(”",$exploded_domain)){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”;}else{foreach($exploded_domain as $value){if(strlen($value) > 63 || !preg_match(’/^[a-z0-9-]+$/i’,$value)){$errors[] = “Email address is invalid”; break;}}}}}} } // Check referrer is from same site. if(!(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))){$errors[] = “You must enable referrer logging to use the form”;} // Check for a blank form. function recursive_array_check_blank($element_value) { global $set; if(!is_array($element_value)){if(!empty($element_value)){$set = 1;}} else { foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_blank($value);} } } recursive_array_check_blank($_REQUEST); if(!$set){$errors[] = “You cannot send a blank form”;} unset($set); // Display any errors and exit if errors exist. if(count($errors)){foreach($errors as $value){print “$value
“;} exit;} if(!defined(”PHP_EOL”)){define(”PHP_EOL”, strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3) == “WIN”) ? “\r\n” : “\n”);} // Build message. function build_message($request_input){if(!isset($message_output)){$message_output =”";}if(!is_array($request_input)){$message_output = $request_input;}else{foreach($request_input as $key => $value){if(!empty($value)){if(!is_numeric($key)){$message_output .= str_replace(”_”,” “,ucfirst($key)).”: “.build_message($value).PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;}else{$message_output .= build_message($value).”, “;}}}}return rtrim($message_output,”, “);} $message = build_message($_REQUEST); $message = $message . PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL.”– “.PHP_EOL.”"; $message = stripslashes($message); $subject = “FormToEmail Comments”; $headers = “From: ” . $_REQUEST['email']; mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers); ?>

so i know that the code is wonky but im not sure were, any one with a good fix

Kenize

Has anyone figured out the “you cannot submit a blank form” error? That’s what happens when I hit the submit button. I think it was mentioned in a previous post but no solution.
thanks in advance

Thanks for the code, i followed the tutorial but whe i hit submit it give me the following error,

The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because an invalid method (HTTP verb) was used to attempt access.
——————————————————————————–

Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe that this request should be allowed.
Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
HTTP Error 405 - The HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

——————————————————————————–

Technical Information (for support personnel)

Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 405.
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Setting Application Mappings, Securing Your Site with Web Site Permissions, and About Custom Error Messages.

Please help me

i really need this form to work.. here is a link to my page http://www.safindo.co.za/contact%20us.htm

I have the correct .php file name ans when I click submit after viewing my webpage from dreamweaver a window flashes real quickly and disappears and the thank you page opens up saying it sent the email to my address-that is correct also in the .php code-but I do not get the email. The first time I tried this I got the email and I was getting the pop up window to save,open, close the .php file. I checked the box to not show this message again and added two more form text fields and now I do not get the emails. What must i do ?

Thank you for the script. I had some difficulties making it work. It was looking for a SMTP address. I found the following fix at http://drupal.org/node/341969

Add the following code to the top of your email script if your mail script continues to fail.

// Please specify your Mail Server - Example: mail.yourdomain.com.
ini_set(”SMTP”,”mail.YourDomain.com”);

// Please specify an SMTP Number 25 and 8889 are valid SMTP Ports.
ini_set(”smtp_port”,”25″);

// Please specify the return address to use
ini_set(’sendmail_from’, ‘ValidEmailAccount@YourDomain.com’);

This is a great script, is there any way that the redirect page can be manipulated to be centered on the page with a back button or text?

Has anyone figure out how to make this go to 2 emails rather than just one?

$my_email = “youremail@domain.com”;

Hello

Thank you for the tutorial, however i have made sure all the scripting is correct but when i click submit i get an error message

“Error 403 - Forbidden
You tried to access a document for which you don’t have privileges.”

Could you please help me? thank you

I wasn’t receiving email until I made sure the domain extension in the email was the same as the domain extension of the site. If you tell it to send to joe@blue.com and your form is on green.com then it may not work. But if it’s on blue.com it will. OK, that was stupid but hopefully helpful.

Hi,

I downloaded your form and used it to the letter, but I don’t seem to be getting the emails. I get the “message sent” confirmed page but they don’t appear in my inbox.

I use Yahoo! as my web host. I saw that others have run into this problem as well.

Has anyone found a solution through Yahoo!?

Thanks for your time.

Randy

I get the same error message as Amar c, once I click submit, i get a forbidden access message. thoughts anyone?

For your email, choose a hotmail email. Certain email hosts wont work. You will have to register your own email and do it that way.

Hope this helps all you that cant get it to send email.

jeanie-tallis@live.co.uk
if any of you are experiencing problems with this code. Please add me, Ill help you out.

oops sorry for above it came out wrong Email jeanie-tallis@live.co.uk if you want the full code. Ill email it. Thanks

the script works great! easiest thing i ever installed, seems like. nice job on the tutorial.

however, i have a concern that i read about in another tutorial that was not addressed here. does this script have spam safeguards? whats to stop a spammer from turning our email address that the message is sent to into a “bot”? doesnt there have to be a CAPTCHA functionality in order to prevent that?

please advise ASAP. thanks!

Took me awhile to get it to work but I now have a comment page for each staff member and am having a great time figuring out how to format it all.
THANKS!!!!!!

It worked great! after renaming the PHP file “fromFormToEmail.php” to “FormtoEmail.php” and making sure that my form was also pointing to “FormtoEmail.php file not to “FormToEmail.php”.

Thank you very much!

Have completed the form, but upon clicking “submit”, receive the following error:
Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /FormToEmail.php.

What am I missing?

Hi,

I followed your instructions and tried testing it though i got the following error:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Could not execute mail delivery program ‘C:\PHP5\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t’ in C:\Domains\zammit-law.com\wwwroot\FormToEmail.php on line 96

line 96 refers to

mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers);

Can you please help me out?

can anyone please give advice on adding captcha? thanks!

good steps

I just finished following the steps you providd and it looks good. I am testing it via dreamweaver. When I hit F12 IE 7.0 automatically displays the page in IE but when I hit submit (after entering information), I get the following ‘Do you want to save this file’ I will be hosting my page on Yahoo small business, and the support PHP.

Also, I will like to know where in the folder do I need to save the php file (Root Folder or sub folder)?

The directions are wrong! It says: “In the Action text box type in FormtoEmail.php.” But you must actually use the CAPITAL T or it won’t work. You must type FormToEmail.php then it will work great. Can you fix this in the instructions please? Thanks and great job on the script.

i have made my form useing this tutorial but i wanted to insert some check boxs into it aswell im fine with doing it in the dreamweaver 8 and have made the form now but i dont have a clue how to edit the formtomail.php script to allow this could some one help just to were to place the lines of code in the script and if possible the code i would need to put in there would be great to see what im trying to do visit http://www.etesia.co.uk/ContactForm.html

This is a great tutorial! But how would I make the PHP page a popup after the use clicks submit?

We are hosted on GoDaddy and have gotten this to work.
But i wanted to know if you can point me to an article about how to attach a file to the email being sent out?
-Josh

what does this mean?

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 501 Your domain does not seem to be valid. Could not find MX record for your domain. in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomain.org\httpdocs\FormToEmail.php on line 116

I get the error

“You must enable referrer logging to use the form”

whats this?

I found your tutorial and downloaded the php file. It was a great tutorial that was easy to follow.

Unfortunately, everytime I click send, I get 404 file not found error message. I’ve have uploaded all the relevant files for this to work and changed the file name and checked that it all correct and it still does not work. I’m using IX web hosting. Is there a reason why this should continue not to work

It was a great simple tutorial which works, but there is one problem.

When I check the email where the message was sent to, No email address from sender, No Subject Line. Why is that?

Very nice…. but how can we add an image? please help thank you….

hi,
Thnx a lot…

I tried your script. first it didnt worked, but after renaming the file as FormtoEmail.php it worked.

The subject of the email comes as “FormToEmail Comments” - is there any way to change this subject of email??

Thnx a lot once again

Hi

Thanks for the tutorial. I am trying to tie in my froms from my email server with the dreamweaver application . Do you know how to do this ? Or could you send me in the right direction?

tnaks

Followed step by step but not getting any emails??

Thank you so much! Dreamweaver was being a pain with the mailto: function. This works much better! Thanks so much!

Hi there, thanks for the great file and tut.
For de people who says they only can donwload de php file…. This is because you first have to put everything online! (not local)… otherwise it will never work!

Hopes this will help some of you!

R.

Hi there, thanks for the tutorial - I keep getting an error message : “Error 403 - Forbidden You tried to access a document for which you don’t have privileges.”
I have tried changing the case of the T in FormToEmail and checked my code - no luck. Can you help me out?

Did anyone work out what to do when the form is completed all that happens is the error message ‘you cannot send a blank form’ pops up (even though everything’s filled in.

Any hints appreciated.

Great stuff, many thanks for your help - would never have got there otherwise!!!

Having major drama’s, have created a form as a Html( action = mailto:) However, doest do what i want it too do, I want to create a PHP form, so i followed this and when i tested it out when i hit submit it directed through to the pho file and asked to open or save??? so dont get it, I am doing something wrong?

- I want my submit button to do three things 1) Clear the form, 2) Email the form 3) redirect user to a Thankyou page.

I have done all the work in a html page, created the form added all relevant fields, it does email the form, however if i ask it to redirect user as a behaviour it doesn;t email the form,

Can anyone help me?? Do i have to open a new blank PHP page and start all over again??Can i insert and use my existing template and just enter in the PHP code? Thanks

Hi,

Managed to get the form to work with godaddy you just need a linux setup and rename the form gdform.php…

but my problem is it seems to just stop working after a few days? it will send lovely and then i do another test the next day and i don’t recieve the message?

Any ideas why it would just stop working after a few days?

Hey,

So I’ve been trying to implement your form - it’s working alright in every way, however, blank forms are submitted without problem… it appears that it doesn’t work!

Thanks,

Doogie

Hi. thanks for this form processing.
one question: I wanna use this form for arabic characters. when i use this form, mail has sent contains just “???”.
any idea?
thnx.

Awesome man ! I have been mucking around with these hosted form-mail deals, and read some tutes for creating a ’simple’ contact form that were way too heavy for a php dunce like me. I can’t believe how easy your tute was. When I was testing and pressed the submit btn, I was for sure expecting an error, but it worked first time ! You rock !!

Hi,

I tried your code and i keep getting an error message like the below one:
Page not found
The page you are looking for might have been removed,
had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

——————————————————————————–
Please try the following:
If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.

- Click the Back button in your browser to try another link.
- Use a search engine like Google to look for information on the Internet.

——————————————————————————–
HTTP 404 - File not found

Please advise on what am i doing worng.

Thank you in advance

Cool tutorial. Solved a huge problem for me!

Everything works. I would just like the Thank You to be in the same template as the rest of my website.

How do I do that?

Hi,

When I tested this on the site it kept saying “You cannot send a blank form”.

Any help would be appreciated.

One question, though. Does anyone know how to make certain fields required? I have three fields I’d like to make required, but currently, there is only an error message for a blank form.

Thanks!

also, I’d like to customize the subject line from “FormToEmail comment” to “Photography Enquiry from [Name]” using the name field I created. I’ve figured out how to change it to “Photography Enquiry from” but I don’t know how to link to the name entered. Thanks!
Tim

Now it just asks to download Dreamweaver.

Computers dont you love em

Arrrgghhhh

Will be mint if I can get it to work.

I was also getting the ‘file not found’ error msg. I had everything set up correctly.

But after I set the permissions on each file, the form worked.

In the FTP window, I selected the file and clicked ‘get info’ (I use Fetch). After selecting ownerships and permissions (allowing the files to be viewed and execute), it worked.

I’m not on godaddy. I have a site there and will try the script on it. This worked on Earthlink.

Nice script so far - thank you!

The filename is case sensitive, the file FormToEmail.php has the word ‘To’ capitalized. For some reason this tutorial does not capitalize ‘to’ in ‘FormtoEmail.php’. Hopefully this helps those getting file not found errors.

I get this error:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 554 The message was rejected because it contains prohibited virus or spam content in D:\Hosting\4799446\html\contact\FormToEmail.php on line 116

ERROR ENCOUNTERED :

Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /FormToEmail.php.
———————————————————-
Apache/1.3.39 Server at “website_name” Port 80

PLEASE HELP !!!

thank you, this page was VERY helpful

Hi, I copied the whole tutorial into DW cs3 and uploaded to my server (MediaTemple) but when I test the form and click submit, nothing happens, the information stays the same and no email is sent. I checked the pages for typos but nothing, everything is good but the form doesn’t work

Hi,

First of all thanks for this tutorial.

I’m making a website and it’s not online yet so i’m working on it in on my local server…
When I did this tutorial and pushed send, to try it out, I got the question if I wanted to download the “FormToEmail.php” file also the no emails arrived in my inbox..
The action is the same as yours.
I do not know what is the problem.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks

Tiziana

also, wanted to add.. not getting very good error handling… stray marks in the email field are being picked up, but blanks forms can be sent, form missing name… not sure why it not picking up these errors..

FF browser, Godaddy linux hosting

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Excellent step by step tutorial. thanks alot.

I keep getting the error:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 554 The message was rejected because it contains prohibited virus or spam content in D:\Hosting\4429413\html\FormtoEmail.php on line 116

Any ideas? I’m getting the same error on http://www.brezelpower.com/order.html

On another site: http://www.successtechniquesforteens.com/contact.html
I keep getting “You cannot send a blank form” when submitting content.

Any ideas for the two errors?

I tried to use your contact form but it does not work. There is no image so you can enter the code - I guess that answers one of the questions I was trying to ask you.
I was looking at buying the Learn how to create Killer Contact Forms. Does it teach how to make forms with being able to upload attachments and also including kcaptcha

Absolutely brilliant tutorial, explained very well and works a treat. Thanks very much.

i cant get the custom thank you page to come up after i submit. once i press submit on the form, it sends me to the default php thank you page. i would like to be directed to a special thank you page i created. can you please help with that.

besides that, GREAT SCRIPT AND TUTORIAL, saved my life. you guys are great.

I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!! This is such a good forum!

Okay, you’ve got a mistake on this tutorial:

You are saying that we need to type in
FormtoEmail.php
for the form action.

But the actual file name that we download and unzip is
FormToEmail.php (capital T)

Works now!

I’m not sure how secure this is but it worked like a charm. I’m happy

I wanna say thanks.. like over and over again.
…and bow.

Okay, you got it!
XD Cheers mate!

…well, do you listen to Kurt?

I run my site on my local machine.
when I click submit the I am asked to open or to save the formtomail.php

what I am going wrong?

Shlomi

Any solutions to Yahoo small business??
It’s been almost two weeks…I’ve tried asp but they don’t support.
I’m using dreamweaver too, and Submit goes through well, brings up the “THanks your message has been sent”.
BUT nothing is being sent.
Is there something to this form with Yahoo?
Can someone please help me out. the code seems to work. but nothing is going through.

Very nice tutorial, thank you. Would you be so kind as to tell me how to bypass your “Thank You” page and go directly to my own? If you prefer not to divulge how to tweak your code I would be happy to pay for a version that allows this.

For those who have problem with redirection, simple do this and it will do the trick, i use this after hundreds of attemps and then i got it right

in the php file, go in line 126 and you will see meta tag, simply remove the old meta tag with this meta tag

(remove xx with tt)

then save it and upload it, after hitting submit button , it wont go to white page of thank you, it will go the page of your desire,

Have fun and also MANY MANY THANKS to DANIEL for this simple script, now which is more useful and easy to handle.

I was wondering if there is a way to have the email address of the person submitting the form to show up as the from address in my inbox? right now it ends up as anonymous@mmm1409.sanjose14-verio.com

If it could be the person’s real email that would be great.

Thanks,
JT

G’day,
Worked like dream cheers mate, for a great script…Hey even added mandatory fields

Cheers again,
Marie

Thanks for this great tutorial!!!!
I have a question, I created the contact form in a new page..but now I need to insert that form into an existing website in an specific place and I really don’t know how to.. Do I have to create an AP div? Can I just go to insert and add the contact form? Can anyone help me please.

Thanks so much,

The tutorial worked great. Thanks so much.

From this foundation I’ll be able to make a more suitable form, but at least I know where to start.

Again, thanks.

Sorted Changed the Enctype to: multipart/form-data
this works perfect

Thanks so much! You saved me a ton of time and it works perfectly. I don’t even get how it works, but it does. Amazing.

When I fill out the form on my site, I get the following error message:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 554 The message was rejected because it contains prohibited virus or spam content in D:\Hosting\5283546\html\FormToEmail.php on line 116

Here is the site: http://www.napleswaterfronthistory.com

What do i do?

This is the error i get when i hit the submit button. Dont really know anything about php. also dont understand why its accessing something in the c drive… Please help me.

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay in C:\Inetpub\corewebmedia\FormToEmail.php on line 116

Just a heads up. GoDaddy is no longer using the gdform.asp, you would have to use ../_gdForm/webformmailer.asp
Also, if you are hosting with windows you need to use the .asp file, with linux the .php file
GoDaddy has a tutorial for both, but does not indicate the ../ before the _gdForm/webformmailer.asp, but you do need to use it otherwise you will get a File Not Found page.

thanks this great
I learned a lot from this contribution thanks again you are a god

My contact form is working

Hi, I have implemented this script but get no emails to my inbox. I have checked and double checked that all files have correct spelling and in the right locations, but still no email delivered. Any ideas?

When I click ’submit’ my page does nothing at all…?

Hello Guru, what entice you to post an article. This article was extremely interesting, especially since I was yearning for thoughts on this topic last Thursday.

I keep getting the “You Cannot send a blank form” message even though i populated my form with data from the start so that even if they left fields blank there was still something there. Please help I see this question several times in this post with no answer.

This is the page I’m working on
http://www.royaltyinn.com/mapdirections.html

I am working on my dad’s website and trying to add this to his website, I have come across one problem and can’t seem to figure out what is wrong. He has made a template through a WYSIWYG and I replaced a line of code in his Contact Us Email submitter. The only trouble I have run into that I can’t seem to figure out is when I click submit after filling out the form I get this…http://www.dailyfitnessandexercise.com/FormToEmail.php(URL) It says: You cannot send a blank form.
How can I fix this?

Odd that the meta line didn’t show. Remove everything after meta http-equiv in the php file.

Has anybody else received this message? Please can you advise me on where i”m going wrong?

Error 403 - Forbidden

You tried to access a document for which you don’t have privileges.

for yahoo users or for people having trouble when it sends but you don’t receive anything I figured it out.

In the FormToEmail.php page look for this code

$headers = “From: ” . $your_name . ” \n”;

either make it into a comment by adding this // at the beginning or just delete it all together.

Genius

Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I used the FormToEmail.php file and it is working great and sending all the information on my form in an email as you said. I have tried to read the code but I can see where I can make a chnage but I would like for it to not put a blank line between each field it is printing out in the email. Below is an example of what it is doing.

Last Name: Fogg

First Name: Fred

Address: 123 Any Street

I would like for it to do this.

Last Name: Fogg
First Name: Fred
Address: 123 Any Street

Can you tell me what to change in the code to fix this?

Also, for some reason, it is taking some of the text fields and coverting them to all lower caps. Any idea why it is doing this?

Please email me back at NAFAWebMaster@n-a-f-a.com with your answers as I would love to get this fixed asap. These tutorials are great and have really helped me with our website. Thanks for the great tutorials.

Fred Fogg
NAFA Web Master (used loosely LOL)
http://www.n-a-f-a-.com

Ok, I fixed it so it sends all the fields on my form, but it is putting a blank line in between each line in the email, what part of the build message code in the FormToEmail.php file do I change to make it not put a blank line between each field? Thanks!

If anyone knows, please post an answer here so I can fix this asap! Thanks!

Those of you who want your submitter to receive a copy of the email, you can copy line 116:

mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers);

paste and edit so that the following is right below it:

mail($_REQUEST['email'],$subject,$message,$headers);

The $_REQUEST['email'] is the submitter’s email.

Hello Thank you for such a great script.

I thought everything was working perfectly until I tried using it on Internet Explorer. Works great on other browsers 9firefox etc)but in IE , when I click submit nothing happens@! Im using it for a client, so if anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.

this worked like a charm! i have been looking for something and this is the first that works!!!! AWESOME!!!

My solution for the ‘cannot send blank page’ error was in the property of the form. The Enctype should be empty

never mind it works now…thanks

Thanks for the tut, but this does not work. It will ask you after submit if you want to open/save the php.
Also i tried .asp but i can’t upload .asp to my server root.

Bye

Mine worked like a charm. Only problem I had was the “T” in “FormToEmail”. THat screwed me up at first, but after I fixed it, it was all good. My hosting server is IPage, and I have found NO problems with them =) Thank you for this tutorial, as I am really not in the mood to learn to in depths of the php. I know how to write a very short one, but this is something better. So thank you.

A big thanks to you!!! Its working dude just keep leading us….. Just one thing i want to know if i receive any mail its show “UNKNOWN SENDER” can it change will it be remain the same… plz guide me…

I have my formtoemail.php and my contact.html page working properly so that I am receiving the emails, however I would like to add the appropriate code on my contact.html page as well as my formtoemail.php so that the submitter will also receive a copy of the post in their email. I tried pasteing
the following exactly as it appears below on lines 114-120 in my formtoemail.php page but it does not generate a copy to the submitter’s email only to mine.

$headers = “From: ” . $_REQUEST['email'];
mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers);
if($form['submitted']['contact_me_by_email']['#value'] == ‘yes’){
$form['submitted']['contact_me_by_email']['#value'] = $form['submitted']['email']['#value'];
}

?>

My goal is to allow the person who posts the comments to receive a copy also.

Thanks,
Patricia

This was a great help!!

For godaddy:

You have to setup your forms email address in hosting first and use the following for the form action;

form action=”_gdForm/webformmailer.asp”

Also if you want to redirect to a page after submission add:

input type=”hidden” name=”redirect” value=”thankyou.htm”

and change yourpage.htm to the page you want your user to be redirected to after they submit the form.

Hey Daniel you are great man. Its really works.. This is I have been looking for a longtime. Thanks u very very much for helping us..

Hey, i came across your blog on google and i think it’s awesome!

Hi there, i have followed all the instructions, my Hosting is through One.com, when i click the submit button nothing happens, no error message, no thing

Does anyone know of any one.com issue, and what the problem might be?

Kind Regards

Sarah

sir

when i use this code or process after that when i push submitt button this link appear as Save file or open file,
what is this i cant understand it, pleae reply me soon.

shafqat

Hi,
I am learning dreamweaver now. I have followed all the instructions. The form seems to work but I don’t receive any email. It even redirects to the page I mentioned. I run it in the local server(iis). Any suggestions?\

Thanks a lot.

Hi,

Awesome Tutorial. One problem when i receive the emails it displays (unkown sender), is there anyway of changing this

Thanks

Great tutorial! It works a treat and is really simply explained. Wonderful job thanks alot!

I want to know how to change the from field that appears in the email. Currently is shows as a mix of things including my hosting login name.

Site I am working on is harrisentertainment.ca

Im using Godaddy, and it is working just fine.

I downloaded your Killer contact form Tutorial and have to say Thank You!! Your work helped me out tremendously. I would have never thought I could create a contact form so fast!