FormMail script error? Is email: & realname: Hard coded somewhere?

[billy]

I keep getting

email:
realname:

In step one of my multitest. These two field are not required by my form in the first step. How would I stop formmail from putting them in my error page?

The only field i have set in multitest.htm is year.

<form name="MultiSample" method="post" action="formmail.php">
<input type="hidden" name="required" value="year" />
<input type="hidden" name="multi_start" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="next_form" value="multitest2.htm" />
<input type="hidden" name="bad_url" value="http://www.mysite.com/fmbadhandler.php" />
<input type="hidden" name="bad_template" value="multierror.htm" />
<input type="hidden" name="this_form" value="http://www.mysite.com/multitest.htm" />

<select name="year">

Thats it nothing else...

[billy]

I found

$a_safe_fields = array(
"email: ".$SPECIAL_VALUES["email"],
"realname: ".$SPECIAL_VALUES["realname"],
);

In formmail.php

Maybe I need to edit this? Any suggestions on what would work best?

[crabtree]

on ur error page?

that doesnt sound right.

can u post ur form's URL so I can see wot u mean

[billy]

Sure...

mrjunkyard dot com

multitest.htm

This is hard coded in the fm.php seems logical that the problem is there.

$a_safe_fields = array(
"email: ".$SPECIAL_VALUES["email"],
"realname: ".$SPECIAL_VALUES["realname"],
);

[billy]

on ur error page?

that doesnt sound right.

can u post ur form's URL so I can see wot u mean

I didn't really answer your question. So lets try again.

No its not in the multierror.htm

It is an email that says FormMail script error.
That I receive to my inbox because I have

/* Help: http://www.tectite.com/fmdoc/def_alert.php */
define("DEF_ALERT","xxx@xxx.com");

set in the formmail.php

[billy]

This is the email that I get for not selecting either of the two values.

To: xxx@xxx.com
From: FormMail@www.xxx.com

The following error occurred in FormMail :
missing_fields
Error=The form required some values that you did not seem to provide.
year
make



email:
realname:

year: ''
make: ''
submit: 'Next >'

Referring page was xxx.com/multitest.htm

User IP address was 69.xxx.xx.xxx

[crabtree]

error messages are error messages to help u solve problems

does it really matter that fm is showing email and realname?

they are there coz they are "special fields"

dont go modifying correct working code unless u want to break things

the error ur getting is to help u debug ur forms

u can switch it off with ALERT_ON_USER_ERROR

[billy]

Cool... Half the battle is understanding. I ran across this lil issue early on and was wondering what the heck, why am i getting those in my error messages. Anyway I understand the why now after deleting everything that could have caused them.

Plus I look at it this way, you took time out of your day to help me out. So I didn't want to leave the thread with out at least posting back.

Thanks for your posts crabtree . I am sure I will be up to speed in a few weeks...

I did not remove any code from formmail.

[crabtree]

Plus I look at it this way, you took time out of your day to help me out. So I didn't want to leave the thread with out at least posting back.

Thanks for your posts crabtree . I am sure I will be up to speed in a few weeks...

'tis cool.

theres lots to learn, but do what i did - take it slowly a step at a time.

read the doco too - its very good....and if u dont understand something in it, tell russell. ive seen him respond to someones post and update the doco with an hour!!!!!!

un-frigging-believable!

[Aytch]

I keep getting

email:
realname:

In step one of my multitest. These two field are not required by my form in the first step. How would I stop formmail from putting them in my error page?

Hey there!
You were close, the part you're looking for is in the formmail.php...just block out these lines and that should give you what you are looking for.

*/

if (!IsMailExcluded("realname"))
{
array_unshift($a_fld_order,"realname");
$a_clean_fields["realname"] = $SPECIAL_VALUES["realname"];
}
if (!IsMailExcluded("email"))
{
array_unshift($a_fld_order,"email");
$a_clean_fields["email"] = $SPECIAL_VALUES["email"];
}

*/


p.s. - do a search for with part of that code to easily find it.