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The mailback form allows Domains hosted on Access Orlando to add comment forms to their sites. The information in the form is parsed and e-mailed to the user.
Access Orlando now uses a modified version of the CGI/Perl Cookbook script FormHandler. The old form mail script is still in operation and the instructions are located HERE. The new form mail script has many more functions and setup is less strict.
Only email address that end in @ao.net or @yourdomainname will be processed. If you want to send to another email address you will need to create a virtual email. Contact webmaster@ao.net if you do not have virtual email access for your domain.
In building your form, you need to supply the form action and necessary fields as specified below.
The Form Tag:
<form method="POST" name="MailBack"
action="http://www.ao.net/cgi-bin/forms/FormHandler.cgi">
The name of the form is not important, it can be named anything. However, if you have more
than one form on a page you should name them differently so there are no browser problems.
The action must be this URL and the method is POST.
Necessary Form Fields:
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Field: recipient
Description: This form field allows you to specify to whom you
wish for your form results to be mailed. Most likely you will
want to configure this option as a hidden form field with a value
equal to that of your e-mail address.
Syntax:
<input type=hidden name="recipient"
value="info@mydomain.com">
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: 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.mydomain.com/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.
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 FormMail
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: field_names
Description: This is how the field name will be displayed in the e-mail. This
way cryptic field names can be translated into easily readable
field names. Also no field names may have spaces in them, this
allows the placement os spaces between words.
Syntax:
<input type="hidden"
name="field_names"
value="first_name=Name&title=Title&address=Address&City_St_Zip=City,
St, Zip&email=EMail&More_Info=More Info?&phone=Phone">
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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.
Sample Form Using FormHandler Script:
(Note: This form has been disabled. Please use it to view the HTML code)
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