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This page documents the SCRATCH_PAD configuration setting in FormMail.

SCRATCH_PAD is an OPTIONAL setting, which means...

OPTIONAL

you can change this setting if you need to, but the default value is fine for most circumstances.

Sets the directory for temporary files.

Set SCRATCH_PAD to a directory/folder into which FormMail can create files. The SCRATCH_PAD directory/folder must be writable by your web server software. On Linux, the following mode should work:

If you set it, the SCRATCH_PAD directory/folder is used for CHECK_FOR_NEW_VERSION processing and any other time FormMail needs to create a temporary file. If you don't set it, then FormMail uses your system's temporary directory (e.g. /tmp on Linux).

Note that to use file uploads with multi-page forms, you will need to set SCRATCH_PAD so that FormMail has a private temporary directory/folder to store uploaded files while moving between the pages of your multi-page form. Your server's system temporary directory/folder is not sufficiently reliable to support multi-page forms.

We recommend you create the directory above your web server Document Root directory/folder, if possible. For example, if your web pages are served from:

create a directory/folder called:

This more secure as no browser will be able to view the scratch pad directory/folder.

Do not specify a system directory/folder where other FormMail installations may write to (this is possible if you're on a shared hosting server).

We recommend specifying the full path (not a relative path) in SCRATCH_PAD.

NOTE: on Windows servers, use '/' instead of '\' or double the '\', like this:

or

$SCRATCH_PAD = "";

$SCRATCH_PAD = "/home/mysite/tmp";

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