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Old 04-23-2004, 09:00 AM Forms help please
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Hi,
I have a couple of forms for my site that email the information visitors enter. When I get the email if is a long string of the information, that I then have to transpose in a readable form before I pass it to the sales department. Is there any way to change the format of the email to be more reader friendly?
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Old 04-24-2004, 10:13 AM
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How are the form's responses being processed? If they're being mailed to you, are you maybe using formmail? (That's what I'm using - seems like it's commonly available on hosting plans out there. I'm not well versed on what all the other possibilities might be, but I can show you what I'm doing. The results come through pretty clean.)

One form I have is at http://www.hogritude.com/contact.html

If you look at the source code, each field has a name associated with it, like

<P><B>How did you find us?</B>
<P><input type=text name="find" size=85>

If someone puts "searched google for pigs", then that part of the email I recieve says

find: searched google for pigs

So it works well. I've used this code on a couple different servers, and a few of the details had to be changed when I switched from one to another. So you may want to look over the documentation your host provides. In particular, the path for 'action' had to be tweaked a bit.

<FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi"> is just what I had to do for this particular host. depends on how they have their files organized, it seems.

(please ignore the big pile of random looking numbers and letters at the bottom of the (source code) page. I was trying out different ways to protect my email addy from spam-bots. Seems to work ok, but there are nicer ways to do it! I'm a little behind on cleaning that up )

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