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Additional Form Options
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email |
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Description: |
This form field will allow
the user to specify their return e-mail address. If you want
to be able to return e-mail to your user, I strongly suggest
that you include this form field and allow them to fill it
in. This will be put into the From: field of the message you
receive. If you want to require an email address with valid
syntax, add this field name to the 'required' field.
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| Syntax: |
<input type=text
name="email"> |
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Field: |
realname
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Description: |
The realname form field will
allow the user to input their real name. This field is
useful for identification purposes and will also be put into
the From: line of your message header.
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| Syntax: |
<input type=text name="realname"> |
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redirect |
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Description: |
If you wish to redirect the
user to a different URL, rather than having them see the
default response to the fill-out form, you can use this
hidden variable to send them to a pre-made HTML page.
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Syntax: |
To choose the URL they will
end up at:
<input type=hidden name="redirect" value="http://your.host.com/to/file.html">
To allow them to specify a
URL they wish to travel to once the form is filled out:
<input type=text name="redirect"> |
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Field: |
required |
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Description: |
You can now require for
certain fields in your form to be filled in before the user
can successfully submit the form. Simply place all field
names that you want to be mandatory into this field. If the
required fields are not filled in, the user will be notified
of what they need to fill in, and a link back to the form
they just submitted will be provided.
To use a customized error
page, see 'missing_fields_redirect'
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Syntax: |
If you want to require that
they fill in the email and phone fields in your form, so
that you can reach them once you have received the mail, use
a syntax like:
<input type=hidden
name="required" value="email,phone"> |
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Field: |
sort |
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Description: |
This field allows you to
choose the order in which you wish for your variables to
appear in the e-mail that FormMail generates. You can choose
to have the field sorted alphabetically or specify a set
order in which you want the fields to appear in your mail
message. By leaving this field out, the order will simply
default to the order in which the browsers sends the
information to the script (which is usually the exact same
order as they appeared in the form.) When sorting by a set
order of fields, you should include the phrase "order:" as
the first part of your value for the sort field, and then
follow that with the field names you want to be listed in
the e-mail message, separated by commas. Version 1.6 allows
a little more flexibility in the listing of ordered fields,
in that you can include spaces and line breaks in the field
without it messing up the sort. This is helpful when you
have many form fields and need to insert a line wrap.
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Syntax: |
To sort alphabetically:
<input type=hidden
name="sort" value="alphabetic">
To sort by a set field order:
<input type=hidden
name="sort" value="order:name1,name2,etc..."> |
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Field: |
print_config |
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Description: |
print_config allows you to
specify which of the config variables you would like to have
printed in your e-mail message. By default, no config fields
are printed to your e-mail. This is because the important
form fields, like email, subject, etc. are included in the
header of the message. However some users have asked for
this option so they can have these fields printed in the
body of the message. The config fields that you wish to have
printed should be in the value attribute of your input tag
separated by commas.
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Syntax: |
If you want to print the
email and subject fields in the body of your message, you
would place the following form tag:
<input type=hidden name="print_config"
value="email,subject"> |
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print_blank_fields |
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Description: |
print_blank_fields allows
you to request that all form fields are printed in the
return HTML, regardless of whether or not they were filled
in. FormMail defaults to turning this off, so that unused
form fields aren't e-mailed.
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Syntax: |
If you want to print all
blank fields:
<input type=hidden name="print_blank_fields" value="1"> |
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Field: |
missing_fields_redirect |
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Description: |
This form field allows you
to specify a URL that users will be redirected to if there
are fields listed in the required form field that are not
filled in. This is so you can customize an error page
instead of displaying the default. |
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Syntax: |
<input type=hidden
name="missing_fields_redirect" value="http://your.host.com/error.html"> |
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Field: |
background |
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Description: |
This form field allow you to
specify a background image that will appear if you do not
have the redirect field set. This image will appear as the
background to the form results page.
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Syntax: |
<input type=hidden
name="background" value="http://your.host.xxx/image.gif"> |
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Field: |
bgcolor |
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Description: |
This form field allow you to
specify a bgcolor for the form results page in much the way
you specify a background image. This field should not be set
if the redirect field is.
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Syntax: |
For a background color of
White:
<input type=hidden name="bgcolor"
value="#FFFFFF"> |
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Field: |
text_color |
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Description: |
This field works in the same
way as bgcolor, except that it will change the color of your
text.
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Syntax: |
For a text color of Black:
<input type=hidden name="text_color"
value="#000000"> |
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Field: |
link_color |
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Description: |
Changes the color of links
on the resulting page. Works in the same way as text_color.
Should not be defined if redirect is.
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Syntax: |
For a link color of Red:
<input type=hidden name="link_color"
value="#FF0000"> |
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vlink_color |
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Description: |
Changes the color of visited
links on the resulting page. Works exactly the same as
link_color. Should not be set if redirect is.
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Syntax: |
For a visited link color of
Blue:
<input type=hidden name="vlink_color"
value="#0000FF"> |
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Field: |
alink_color |
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Description: |
Changes the color of active
links on the resulting page. Works exactly the same as
link_color. Should not be set if redirect is.
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Syntax: |
For a active link color of
Blue:
<input type=hidden name="alink_color"
value="#0000FF"> |
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