Emails not received in template

[Chek]

I am having trouble with getting my template to work. The code for some of the body of the template is

</tr>
<tr>
<td>First Name</td>
<td><b>$First_Name</b></td>
<td>Last Name</td>
<td><b>$Last_Name</b></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phone Number</td>
<td><b>$Phone_Number</b></td>
<td>Best Time to Call</td>
<td><b>$Time_Preference</b></td>
<td><b>$am-pm</b></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>E-mail</td>
<td><b>$email</b></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Company Name</td>
<td><b>$Company_Name</b></td>
<td>Location</td>
<td><b>$Location</b></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>


thats basically how it goes which resembles your example in the how-to. I then changed formmail.php like 1531 to

$TEMPLATEURL = $SCHEME.$SERVER."http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto/cgi-bin/";

i have tried many variations of this such as the one below and others. I Figured this is were my problem was since the email was not comming in the table format.

$TEMPLATEURL = "http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto/cgi-bin/";

the hidden feild in the form is

<input type="hidden" name="mail_options" value="HTMLTemplate=template.html,TemplateMissing=N/A">

the name of my template is indeed template.html and it is located in the cgi-bin of the previous address. I get the email still with no errors but it is not in table format it is just the raw data like before as if there was no template to begin with. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give becuase i have tried alot of different things and cant get to the bottom of this problem

[russellr]

Hi,

If you try opening the URL to the template in a browser:
http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto.../template.html

you see a server error.

This is probably because your server won't allow HTML documents to be placed in cgi-bin.

In the instructions for templates we recommend creating a directory to hold your templates. If you follow those instructions, I think you'll make more progress.

[Chek]

geeeezzz ok ok i made a different directory. Somtimes I just put crap were i want hehe. the template is now in

http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto.../template.html

and it loads too. I have tried both these lines in my formmail.php

$TEMPLATEURL = "http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto/template/";

$TEMPLATEURL = $SCHEME.$SERVER."http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto/template/";

my hidden feild is the same as before since i did not change the name of the .html file. I still dont get template in my email. Please help me jedi master russel.

[russellr]

Hi,

Now you can load the template, FormMail should be able to too.

For $TEMPLATEURL, this is now the correct setting:

$TEMPLATEURL = "http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto/template/"; 

Next, if you've got DEF_ALERT set (which you seem to - I tried it), if FormMail needs to tell you about an error you should get it.

If it's not telling you about an error, then something else is wrong.

So, what exactly happens now when you submit the form?

[Chek]

Russ,

Its the same as before when i didnt have a template. I just get the raw data.

email: blahblah@blah.com
realname:
First_Name: chek
Last_Name: chekinex
Phone_Number: 888-555-444
Time_Preference: 12:00
am-pm: AM
Company_Name: Fibersen syeyss
Location: Fort Worth Texas
Industry: Airport
Register: Register

==================================

data is not in the table on the yahoo and aol addresses i tried... I get no errors though. I have no idea what it could be.

the info again is
form: http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto/reg.html
template: http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto.../template.html
formmail.php: $TEMPLATEDIR = "";
$TEMPLATEURL = "http://www.prj7.com/fibersensysproto/template/";

[russellr]

Hi,

You can only have one field with a particular name. You've tried to use "mail_options" twice:

<input type="hidden" name="mail_options" value="HTMLTemplate=template.html,TemplateMissing=N/A">
<input type="hidden" name="mail_options" value="FromAddr=xxxxxx@fibersensys.com">

Replace these two "input" tags with one, like this:

<input type="hidden" name="mail_options"
value="HTMLTemplate=template.html,TemplateMissing=N/A,FromAddr=xxxxxx@fibersensys.com">

[Chek]

As always Russel your the man... After changing that and a couple other things it worked. However even though its getting sent now it just shows up as HTML coding on yahoo . I enabled html and images in its options but still dosent work. I guess I will have to figure out a way to get the emails through the corporate server somehow. Thanks alot im sure ill be posting again

[Chek]

This thread also helped to get my template working in case your having line termination troubles

http://www.tectite.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=256