{"id":1245,"date":"2024-07-05T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zalvis.com\/docs\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:42:23","slug":"creating-a-contact-form-with-formmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zalvis.com\/docs\/creating-a-contact-form-with-formmail.html","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Contact Form with FormMail"},"content":{"rendered":"

FormMail is a very popular script that you can put onto your website so that visitors can fill it out and have their response emailed directly to you.<\/p>\n

NOTE<\/strong>: To help you set up FormMail on your website we have previously written a step-by-step guide to installing and configuring FormMail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Download the \u201ccompat<\/strong>\u201d version of the\u00a0NMS FormMail <\/a>script.\n
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  2. Un-zip the downloaded file and upload the FormMail.pl<\/em> script to your cgi-bin folder in your public_html folder.\n
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  3. Next you will need to modify the FormMail.pl<\/em> file that was uploaded into your cgi-bin folder. First, you will need to change the @referers<\/em>line (around line 47). Replace everything inside of the parentheses with your domain using the same formatting, once without the www and then a single space and again with the www.\n
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  4. This is where you input any email addresses that the forms will send to. Make sure you remove localhost from both the @referers<\/em> and the @allow_mail_to<\/em> lines (around lines 47 and 48, respectively.) Once you have made these two changes, save the file.\n
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  5. After adding the code to the page that you want the form on, you will need to point the action of the FORM tag to the FormMail.pl<\/em>script inside the cgi-bin folder:<form action=”https:\/\/www.example.com\/cgi-bin\/FormMail.pl” method=”post”><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Next, inside of each of your forms you will need to include a few hidden input tags. They are detailed below:<\/p>\n

    <input type=”hidden” name=”recipient” value=”you@your.domain,me@your.domain” \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    This tag tells the form which email address to send the form to. Just make sure that this email is one of the addresses in your @allow_mail_to<\/em> field<\/p>\n

    <input type=”hidden” name=”subject” value=”From the feedback form” \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    This is a optional tag you can input into your form to specify the subject line of the email that gets delivered to you.<\/p>\n

    <input type=”hidden” name=”redirect” value=”https:\/\/www.your.domain\/foo.html” \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    This is another optional tag to specify where your users will be redirected to after they click the submit button.<\/p>\n

    Finally in order for FormMail to work you must set the permissions on the FormMail.pl<\/em> to 755<\/strong>.\u00a0 This can be completed within your File Manager as well by right clicking on the file and selecting \u201cchange permissions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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