Yet another (Matt's Script) email form problem

I posted this question over at webdevbiz, but no one seemed able to help me
discern the problem. I'm using Matt's email form script from here:

http://www.mattsscripts.co.uk/mattfm.htm

I have the page here:

http://www.cpanel18.gzo.com/~dis2093/pactumgroup/contact.php

Can someone tell me why I am getting my "incomplete" message here? I'm
getting sent to the incomplete page unless I take out *all* required fields
in the code.

Thanks!

tim

"terry" <terryuse (AT) cashette (DOT) com> wrote

If I remember correctly, a couple of years ago, Matt was advising people
not
to use this site because it was so out of date. He suggested that you
follow one of the more recent links on the MA site. Sorry I can't be more
helpful.

MA site? Are you talking about "Matt's Script Archive," or something else?
The stuff there looks at least as old as this one, which is on record as
having been updated in 2003....

tim

for info, there's a bunch of Matt's and formmail scripts.
the one you linked isn't the Matt Wright /scriptarchive.com site.

if you can't sort that one out, this one is about the same syntax with some
more options. works fine.
http://boaddrink.com phpformmail.

one suggestion (this applies to most of the formmail variants), modify the
default first sentence of the outgoing email text, the popular filter "Spam
Assassin" gives an email 3.5 points if it contains "Below is the result of
your feedback form. It was submitted by" Find that text in the file and
change to something else.

MA site? Are you talking about "Matt's Script Archive," or something else?
The stuff there looks at least as old as this one, which is on record as
having been updated in 2003....

"Mad Dog" <md (AT) mdp (DOT) com> wrote

I don't see an <input type> line for "message" which would mean it's
undefined and probably never able to be filled in (technically speaking).

Hm. I don't see that being the problem, since my other (functioning) email
forms don't have a type for the message box, which is strictly not an
"input," but a "textarea"....

Maybe I'll delete "message" as a required field, and see what I come up
with.

tim

Tim Gallant wrote:
I posted this question over at webdevbiz, but no one seemed able to
help me discern the problem. I'm using Matt's email form script from
here:
http://www.mattsscripts.co.uk/mattfm.htm

I have the page here:

http://www.cpanel18.gzo.com/~dis2093/pactumgroup/contact.php

Can someone tell me why I am getting my "incomplete" message here? I'm
getting sent to the incomplete page unless I take out *all* required
fields in the code.

Thanks!

tim

Thanks, Alan. I'll check out the script you mentioned. It certainly looks
like the documentation is more user-friendly for non-programming types.

tim

"Alan" <dont_mail_me_period (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

for info, there's a bunch of Matt's and formmail scripts.
the one you linked isn't the Matt Wright /scriptarchive.com site.

if you can't sort that one out, this one is about the same syntax with
some
more options. works fine.
http://boaddrink.com phpformmail.

one suggestion (this applies to most of the formmail variants), modify the
default first sentence of the outgoing email text, the popular filter
"Spam
Assassin" gives an email 3.5 points if it contains "Below is the result of
your feedback form. It was submitted by" Find that text in the file and
change to something else.


MA site? Are you talking about "Matt's Script Archive," or something
else?
The stuff there looks at least as old as this one, which is on record as
having been updated in 2003....

Tim Gallant wrote:

"terry" <terryuse (AT) cashette (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cuiuk5$n7s$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...


If I remember correctly, a couple of years ago, Matt was advising people
not
to use this site because it was so out of date. He suggested that you
follow one of the more recent links on the MA site. Sorry I can't be more
helpful.


MA site? Are you talking about "Matt's Script Archive," or something else?
The stuff there looks at least as old as this one, which is on record as
having been updated in 2003....

tim

Tim,

Matt's script is over ten years old, and at his site, he writes that
he's not even recommending it himself. For instance, he's pointing to
the NMS Formmail script from Sourceforge, which is one (or maybe THE
one) of the best/safest and easiest configured scripts available:

http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml

--
Dan Vendel - *GOF*
"Eagles may soar, free and proud, but weasels never get sucked into jet
engines."
Contact: http://www.proformica.com/contact.shtml or call/chat me via
Skype ID: danvendel, but DON'T ask questions that you can ask here! (get
Skype at http://skype.com)
Formmail tutorial: http://www.proformica.com/formmail-tutorial.shtml
Nested table demo: http://www.proformica.com/nested-table-demo.shtml
Basic HTML bulk mail tutorial: http://www.proformica.com/bulkmail.shtml
Search engine optimization: http://www.proformica.com/seo.shtml

You're probably right and that's not the problem. *whoops*

However, I agree that the script might be an old version and not working
right. Why don't you forget the "required" field and instead use a form
validation script or extension to make sure people fill out the form before
it's sent? Then you don't even have to worry about this field.

MD


Tim Gallant wrote:

"Mad Dog" <md (AT) mdp (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cuium8$nai$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
I don't see an <input type> line for "message" which would mean it's
undefined and probably never able to be filled in (technically
speaking).

Hm. I don't see that being the problem, since my other (functioning)
email forms don't have a type for the message box, which is strictly
not an "input," but a "textarea"....

Maybe I'll delete "message" as a required field, and see what I come
up with.

tim



Tim Gallant wrote:
I posted this question over at webdevbiz, but no one seemed able to
help me discern the problem. I'm using Matt's email form script from
here:
http://www.mattsscripts.co.uk/mattfm.htm

I have the page here:

http://www.cpanel18.gzo.com/~dis2093/pactumgroup/contact.php

Can someone tell me why I am getting my "incomplete" message here?
I'm getting sent to the incomplete page unless I take out *all*
required fields in the code.

Thanks!

tim

"Dan Vendel" <see_my_signature_ (AT) _the_bottom_of_the_po (DOT) st> wrote

Tim,

Matt's script is over ten years old, and at his site, he writes that
he's not even recommending it himself. For instance, he's pointing to
the NMS Formmail script from Sourceforge, which is one (or maybe THE
one) of the best/safest and easiest configured scripts available:

http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml

--
Dan Vendel - *GOF*

Thanks for that Dan,

I thought I had imagined it :-)

Terry

Okay, so I downloaded the formmail script from boaddrink (Andrew Riley's).
The instructions seem very clear, but I'm still getting the same result:

http://www.cpanel18.gzo.com/~dis2093/pactumgroup/contact.php

Thoughts?

tim


"Alan" <dont_mail_me_period (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

for info, there's a bunch of Matt's and formmail scripts.
the one you linked isn't the Matt Wright /scriptarchive.com site.

if you can't sort that one out, this one is about the same syntax with
some
more options. works fine.
http://boaddrink.com phpformmail.

one suggestion (this applies to most of the formmail variants), modify the
default first sentence of the outgoing email text, the popular filter
"Spam
Assassin" gives an email 3.5 points if it contains "Below is the result of
your feedback form. It was submitted by" Find that text in the file and
change to something else.


MA site? Are you talking about "Matt's Script Archive," or something
else?
The stuff there looks at least as old as this one, which is on record as
having been updated in 2003....

"Mad Dog" <md (AT) mdp (DOT) com> wrote

You're probably right and that's not the problem. *whoops*

However, I agree that the script might be an old version and not working
right. Why don't you forget the "required" field and instead use a form
validation script or extension to make sure people fill out the form
before it's sent?

Because I haven't a clue what you're talking about! :^D

The only forms I've used were a modified cgi version of one of Matt's old
scripts that my old webhost (pair.com) had touched up, and I never used it
with required fields. Because I discovered that the script was filled here
and there with pair.com stuff, I thought I had better start over. Plus, I
wanted to have more "power" so that the emails I receive would be better
formatted, and just in case someone forgot to give me their email address.

All that to say that I'm just getting my feet wet with this stuff.

tim