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Please note: Due to security reasons and SPAMMERS, all prevoius versions of this script have been disabled.
The mailback form allows Access Orlando users to add comment
forms to their home pages. The information in the form is parsed
and emailed back to the user.
The result will be automatically emailed to username@ao.net
where username is the location of the form. For example, if your
username is "bill" and the form HTML page is at:
http://www.ao.net/~bill/myform.html the result will be emailed to
bill@ao.net.
An example HTML form is at the bottom of this page.
In building your form, you only need to supply the form action and the input fields you would like.
The Form Tag:
<form action="http://www.ao.net/cgi-bin/forms/aomailer.cgi" method="POST">
The following fields are optional, but may assist you in making your form more user friendly.
Optional Form Fields:
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Field: subject
Description: The subject field will allow you to specify the
subject that you wish to appear in the e-mail that is sent to you
after this form has been filled out.
Syntax:
<input type=hidden name="subject" value="Your
Subject">
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Field: email
Description: This form field will allow the user to specify their
return e-mail address. If you want to be able to return e-mail to
your user, I strongly suggest that you include this form field
and allow them to fill it in. This will be put into the From:
field of the message you receive. If you want to require an email
address with valid syntax, add this field name to the 'required'
field.
Syntax:
<input type=text name="email">
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Field: realname
Description: The realname form field will allow the user to input
their real name. This field is useful for identification purposes
and will also be put into the From: line of your message header.
Syntax:
<input type=text name="realname">
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Field: redirect
Description: If you wish to redirect the user to a different URL,
rather than having them see the default response to the fill-out
form, you can use this hidden variable to send them to a pre-made
HTML page.
Syntax:
<input type=hidden name="redirect"
value="http://www.ao.net/~username/thanks.html">
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Field: required
Description: You can require certain fields in your form to be
filled in before the user can successfully submit the form.
Simply place all field names that you want to be mandatory into
this field. If the required fields are not filled in, the user
will be notified of what they need to fill in, and a link back to
the form they just submitted will be provided.
To use a customized error page, see 'missing_fields_redirect'
Syntax:
If you want to require that they fill in the realname and email
fields in your form, so that you can reach them once you have
received the mail, use a syntax like:
<input type=hidden name="required"
value="realname,email">
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Field: sort
Description: This field allows you to choose the order in which
you wish for your variables to appear in the e-mail that the form
generates. You can choose to have the field sorted alphabetically
or specify a set order in which you want the
fields to appear in your mail message. By leaving this field out,
the order will simply default to the order in which the
browsers sends the information to the script (which is usually
the exact same order as they appeared in the form.) When
sorting by a set order of fields, you should include the phrase
"order:" as the first part of your value for the sort
field, and
then follow that with the field names you want to be listed in
the e-mail message, separated by commas.
Syntax:
To sort alphabetically:
<input type=hidden name="sort"
value="alphabetic">
To sort by a set field order:
<input type=hidden name="sort"
value="order:name1,name2,name3,etc...">
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Field: print_blank_fields
Description: print_blank_fields allows you to request that all
form fields are printed in the return HTML, regardless of whether
or not they were filled in. The script defaults to turning this
off, so that unused form fields aren't e-mailed.
Syntax:
If you want to print all blank fields:
<input type=hidden name="print_blank_fields"
value="1">
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Field: title
Description: This form field allows you to specify the title and
header that will appear on the resulting page if you do not
specify a redirect URL.
Syntax:
If you wanted a title of 'Feedback Form Results':
<input type=hidden name="title" value="Feedback
Form Results">
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Field: return_link_url
Description: This field allows you to specify a URL that will
appear, as return_link_title, on the following report page. This
field will not be used if you have the redirect field set, but it
is useful if you allow the user to receive the report on the
following page, but want to offer them a way to get back to your
main page.
Syntax:
<input type=hidden name="return_link_url"
value="http://www.ao.net/~username/index.html">
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Field: return_link_title
Description: This is the title that will be used to link the user
back to the page you specify with return_link_url. The two fields
will be shown on the resulting form page as:
<ul>
<li><a
href="return_link_url">return_link_title</a>
</ul>
Syntax:
<input type=hidden name="return_link_title"
value="Back to Main Page">
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Field: missing_fields_redirect
Description: This form field allows you to specify a URL that
users will be redirected to if there are fields listed in the
required form field that are not filled in. This is so you can
customize an error page instead of displaying the default.
Syntax:
<input type=hidden name="missing_fields_redirect"
value="http://www.ao.net/~username/error.html">
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Field: bgcolor
Description: This form field allow you to specify a bgcolor for
the form results page. This field should not be set if the
redirect field is.
Syntax:
For a background color of White:
<input type=hidden name="bgcolor"
value="#FFFFFF">
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Field: text_color
Description: This field works in the same way as bgcolor, except
that it will change the color of your text.
Syntax:
For a text color of Black:
<input type=hidden name="text_color"
value="#000000">
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Field: link_color
Description: Changes the color of links on the resulting page.
Works in the same way as text_color. Should not be defined if
redirect is.
Syntax:
For a link color of Red:
<input type=hidden name="link_color"
value="#FF0000">
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Field: vlink_color
Description: Changes the color of visited links on the resulting
page. Works exactly the same as link_color. Should not be set if
redirect is.
Syntax:
For a visited link color of Blue:
<input type=hidden name="vlink_color"
value="#0000FF">
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Field: alink_color
Description: Changes the color of active links on the resulting
page. Works exactly the same as link_color. Should not be set if
redirect is.
Syntax:
For a visited link color of Blue:
<input type=hidden name="alink_color"
value="#0000FF">
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Any other form fields that appear in your script will be mailed
back to you and displayed on the resulting page if you do not
have the redirect field set. There is no limit as to how many
other form fields you can use with this form, except the limits
imposed by browsers and your server.
Example Form Using this Script:
(Note: this form will not email, but will show the result page. Please use it to view the HTML code)
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