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To enable the preconfigured form to e-mail service, first contact
the SPIKE 1 support department for the proper <form> tag
which will be required to enable the service. Once the necessary
<form> tag is inserted into your HTML form, you may then
use any of the variables below to further customize your form
document.
Necessary Form Fields
There is only one form field that you must have in your form,
for FormMail to work correctly. This is the recipient field.
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="email@yourdomain.com">
Optional Form Fields
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. If you do
not have this option turned on, then the script will default to
a message subject: WWW Form Submission.
Syntax: <input
type=hidden name="subject" value="Your Subject">
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">
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">
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://your.host.com/to/file.html">
Field: required
Description: You can now require for 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:
<input type=hidden name="required" value="email,phone,etc...">
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. You can also include spaces and
line breaks in the field without it messing up the sort. This
is helpful when you have many form fields and need to insert a
line wrap.
Syntax:
<input type=hidden name="sort" value="order:name1,name2,name3,etc...">
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