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1.9 KiB
ReStructuredText
50 lines
1.9 KiB
ReStructuredText
Introduction
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This script is designed to allow someone with little knowledge of scripting,
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but some knowledge of html to create an email "contact" form. When designing
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this script, I had 2 major goals.
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1. Little-to-no configuration.
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The only necessary configuration in the script is to set your email
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address you would like to receive the emails at. There are other
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configuration options if you would like to have extra features (like a
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redirect page or captcha spam protection) but you CAN just set your email
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address in the config(config.php), point your form to the script
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(<form action='./process.php'>) and it will send you all data from the
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sctipt in an email.emails.
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2. Compatability
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I wanted this script to be compatible with as many servers as possible
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with out having to make any server side settings. This is why I wrote
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it in php, instead of python. With most hosts, you will already have
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php and sendmail installed, configured and ready to go.
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The basic setup
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With the most basic setup, you get a script that accepts a form action by the
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POST method and then send the information using a template you create to form
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the email data how you would like it.
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Building the form html
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In order to have a form on your site, you must add the form to one of your html
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pages. This can be done just by editing the html page with a text editor, or
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by most webbuilding softwares by adding the form fields. If you use a site
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building software, you may still need to edit the html code by hand, so I'll
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breifly go over the html tags used to build the form and what they do.
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There are 2 basic html tags used when building a form.
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1. <form></form> tag
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All <input> tags (we'll talk about those next) must go between the <form> and
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</form> tags in your html code. The <form> tag also contains some info
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