A big thank you to all at FormTools and a question

Drachsi · Dec 22nd, 2010, 4:45 AM

I have created forms using FormMail from Tectite, and FormTools works fine with the form. I would like to have both versions working when sending the form.

I have <form action="http://www.xyz.com/formtools/process.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" form method="post" action="http://www.xyz.com/scripts/webmaster.php" name="Webmaster">

but this does not send the form by email. Can I have 2 Form actions?

Hope somebody could guide me.

Regards

Drachsi

jacksonc@ust.hk · Dec 22nd, 2010, 10:43 PM

You cannot have two "actions" on the same form.

All can be done within FormTools, all you need is to create an Email once the form is submitted. You can grab all fields data and send to a custom email address.

http://docs.formtools.org/tutorials/opti...fications/

Drachsi · Dec 23rd, 2010, 2:39 AM

My form posts the data to a html template that is emailed to me. Could I put the code in the template?
My template is like
Email Confirmed:$emailconfirm
Address1:$address1
Address2:$address2
City or Town:$city
Postcode:$postcode

Regards

Drachsi

***Ben*** · Dec 26th, 2010, 9:55 AM

Hi Drachsi,

Sure! The email templates are quite powerful: not only can you enter in placeholders like that, but you can also add in logic to only output text, depending on values in your form.

Maybe give this page a read through:
http://docs.formtools.org/userdoc/?page=...ontent_tab

Personally, I'd try just tinkering around with it through the interface: add and remove content and use the "Test" tab to send you examples of the email or just display them in the page. This can really help make sense of it.

Good luck! Smile

- Ben

Drachsi · Dec 28th, 2010, 7:20 AM

Hi, Getting more use to it. I have added the module Blank form and that is loaded. The above post mentions http://docs.formtools.org/userdoc/?page=...ontent_tab and under The email content / Smarty! there are some examples, I can't find them anywhere.

Is there an example form available, that posts to the database, and sends an email with the form data anywhere? That would be a great help in getting started. I need to have "Captcha" field, is there a module for this?

Thanks in advance

Drachsi

Drachsi · Dec 28th, 2010, 11:51 PM

Hi,

I have started with http://docs.formtools.org/tutorials/api_...page=step1 and created a new test form and verified the page. When I complete the form it does not go the thank you page. My code is

<?php
require_once("../formtools/global/api/api.php");
$fields = ft_api_init_form_page("10", "initialize");
$params = array(
"submit_button" => "submit",
"next_page" => "../scripts/template-thanks.htm",
"form_data" => $_POST,
"file_data" => $_FILES,
"finalize" => true
);
ft_api_process_form($params);
?>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Formtools api test</title>
</head>

<body>

<p>Test Form for formtools api</p>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]?>" method="POST">
<br />
<input name="Text1" type="text" /> text1<br />
<input name="Text2" type="text" /> text2<br />
 <input name="Radio1" type="radio" />     
<input name="Radio2" type="radio" checked="checked" /><br />
<br />
<textarea name="Text" cols="60" rows="6"></textarea> text<br />
<input name="Reset" type="reset" value="reset" /><br />
<br />
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="submit" /></form>

</body>

I really did have fun but now need you to push me in the right direction.

Regards

Drachsi

(Dec 26th, 2010, 9:55 AM)Ben Wrote: Hi Drachsi,

Sure! The email templates are quite powerful: not only can you enter in placeholders like that, but you can also add in logic to only output text, depending on values in your form.

Maybe give this page a read through:
http://docs.formtools.org/userdoc/?page=...ontent_tab

Personally, I'd try just tinkering around with it through the interface: add and remove content and use the "Test" tab to send you examples of the email or just display them in the page. This can really help make sense of it.

Good luck!

- Ben

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