contact form questions/problem

[Dastardley]

Hello guys i am a complete novice to having my own web and i have run into a problem with even an 'idiot proof' flash web builder software. ( I tried their own helpline for assistance but got nowhere)

Basicly i have this flashwebsite i am building....one of the options is a page where a contact window appears where a visitor can add his name, email address, and comments with a submit button, reset button and close button. when i uploaded the site to my webhost i noticed that the file for the page was named contact.asp the file
is here:

<%
contactfield1=Request("field1")
contactfield2=Request("field2")
contactfield3=Request("field3")
contactfield4=Request("field4")

mbody = "field1 : "&contactfield1&" | field2 : "&contactfield2&" | field3 : "&contactfield3&" | field4 : "&contactfield4

'email object for cdonts
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

'Set pmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.Newmail")

'change the email to your email address
'pmail.From = "[e-mail]"
'pmail.To = "[e-mail]"

'pmail.Subject = " Website Contact enquiry "

'pmail.Body = mbody
'pmail.MailFormat = 0 'mime type
'pmail.BodyFormat = 0 'default value 1 for plain text type

'pmail.Send
'Set pmail=Nothing

'new mail
'DIM Mailer

'email object for CDO Windows 2003
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objMessage.Subject = "Website Contact Enquiry"
'change the email to your email address
objMessage.Sender = "[e-mail]"
objMessage.To = "[e-mail]"
objMessage.TextBody = mbody
objMessage.Send
set objMessage=Nothing

response.write("response=ok")

%>

Now i am taking it to be that i need to change these email addresses in the above file to my own webserver email address.....But what else must i do to get this form to work?............I am at a complete loss here.😕 Thanks for any help offered. Dastardley

[stolzyboy]

well, this IS a PHP forum, not an ASP forum... however, yes, you'll obviously need to change the email address to your own, and depending on the version of IIS on your hosts server, you'll need to either use the old CDONTS mail method or the new CDO object method for 2003...

i don't know how much you know about ASP, but the ticks(') in front of a line means it is commented out, so you'll need to comment/uncomment the code depending on the mail method you need to use...

as far the flash stuff, i'm not sure how much integration you want to do so i'm not sure what to tell you there

hth,
stolzyboy

[Dastardley]

Thanks for your input Stolzyboy......My contact form was in .asp but i have since learned from my webhost (Ipowerweb) that my server is not a windows server so the asp format will not work. The flash site builder i am using gives me the option of the same contact form using php.......I still have a similar problem though, i am not php literate and do not know what i need do to the code (below) in order for me to recieve the comments sent from my website form.....Can you or anyone else here help me out? I am the newest of newbies....a fetus....embryo even... 🙂

Please note the code is all pre-written by the flash site builder program and the form is a page on the site.

My code: contact.php

Note please that i have changed the

$email_from = "[e-mail]";

and

$email_to = "[e-mail]"; 

To show my own email address, i removed here to avoid spam.

Also when i use the form to send comments i get no email at my account and no error message at all.

<?

$contactfield1=$HTTP_GET_VARS["contactfield1"]
$contactfield2=$HTTP_GET_VARS["contactfield2"]
$contactfield3=$HTTP_GET_VARS["contactfield3"]
$contactfield4=$HTTP_GET_VARS["contactfield4"]



$email_from = "[e-mail]";
$email_subject =  "" ;
//$email_txt = "";
$email_to = "[e-mail]";



$email_message = "field1: $contactfield1\n
field2 :$contactfield2 \n
field3 :$contactfield3 \n
field4 : $contactfield4 \n

";

  mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message,$email_from);


?>

[Dastardley]

Anybody? It's a php code to enable me to recieve comments from site visitors who hit onan email link icon on my site. A form then appears with an name field, email field, a comments field. it has a submit button, a reset button and a close button. My problem is i do not know what i need to change in the above code to recieve the email at my email account. Is this code above correct even....Is there a better code i could use?......Please guys give me hand here.

[bradgrafelman]

EDIT: Didn't see the part where you said you've already changed the e-mail addresses.

Well, the last parameter you're using in the mail() function is supposed to be additional mail headers. So, try changing your 'from' email address to something like:

$email_from = "From: <[e-mail]>\r\n";