Return All Variables To Bad_Form Page On Error

[vladimir]

Hi,

After reading this thread:

http://www.tectite.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=97

I was wondering if it is possible to return the variables into a new form page with a slightly altered lay-out.
Also, in this case my webstats-script wil not count the form page double.


Congratulations with this marvelous script, real quality!


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if it is not possible and I choose to have a bad_template page, is it possibe to use an image as a link instead of text for <return_link /> ?

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[russellr]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to return the variables into a new form page with a slightly altered lay-out.

Yes, you can, but the form will have to be a script, not straight HTML.

You can convert your HTML page to PHP, for example, by renaming it from something.htm to something.php (assuming your webserver will serve PHP pages).

Then, in the bad_url setting, specify the original form (something.php).

FormMail will then call the bad_url target when the user has an error. It will pass the error details in the URL and also in the Session variables.

With some relatively simple PHP logic, you can easily modify the output of the form as you wish, to incorporate the error details.

I've made this sound simple, but you do need to be a bit of a programmer to get this done.

As to the alternative, if you use the bad_template feature with our fmbadhandler.php, it currently does not support the return link being an image. However, we can add that in a future version if you need to go that way.

[vladimir]

thank you for the fast and clear answer.

I didn't want to spend too much time messing around in php (since I am pretty new at it). So what I eventually did is choose for the alternative, leave the <return_link /> with an empty value ("") and use a manual <a href="#" onClick="history.go(-1)"> in my bad_template code. This solved my <img>-problem.

once again much thanks for the great support, you have my recommendation for sure.

Greetz from Belgium,