Support & Assistance: Formmail Script

One of the most common requests we have is for help in creating a form to email script.

As part of our standard service, we provide a script called Jack's Formmail.php.

1) Installing Jack's Formmail
Log into your control panel and click on the "Power Tools" link on the left hand side. Select Jack's Formmail and follow the instructions to install it. There is no need to change the default settings unless you have good reason to.

2) Demo Script
This will have installed the Formmail script in the formmail directory on your site. So, if your domain name was domainname.ie, the location of the formmail directory would be http://www.yourdomainname.ie/formmail/.

A sample script will have also been placed in this directory, and this will be located at http://www.yourdomainname.ie/formmail/demo_html.html.

3) Form Elements

You can add any fields you wish to your form such as name, address, email etc. The only required field that you must have in your form is the action and recpient fields (see below).

- Action Tag
The form action must be set correctly to send the form to the formmail.php script. Therefore, if your form is located below the formmail directory (www.yourdomainname.ie/contactform.html for example) the form action would be set as follows:
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="formmail/formmail.php">

- Recipient Tag
Another essential element is the recipient tag. This is the email address that the form contents will be sent to. It must be an address at your domain name (eg: it cannot be your eircom or hotmail address). Sample below:
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="info@yourdomainname.ie">

- Redirect Tag
The redirect tag will bring the user to the specified page once the form has been submitted. This will usually be a page thanking them and informing them that you will get back to them in due course.
<input type=hidden name="redirect" value="http://www.yourdomainname.ie/thankyou.html">

4) Further Assistance
Full documentation on the Formmail script is available at the following location:
http://www.dtheatre.com/scripts/formmail_doc.php