Is the recipients field required in html form?

[adam2003w]

Is the recipients field required in html form?

Is it really necessary to include an email in the html form? I've been using Jack's FormMail.php Script for a year and a half and instead of exposing my email to spammers in an html form, I would pull the email from the database inside the actual FormMail.php script.

Now with the TectTite formmail.php script I made a connection to the database in the formmail.php file, spit my email into the $TARGET_EMAIL, DEF_ALERT, and $FROM_USER variables. However when I run the sample form with no recipients, I get an error.

Is the hidden recipients field really required? Is there anyway around this? What's the solution?

[russellr]

Hi,

If you want FormMail to send email containing your form results, then you need to set "recipients".

To protect it from spammers, use the AT_MANGLE feature.

Now with the TectTite formmail.php script I made a connection to the database in the formmail.php file, spit my email into the $TARGET_EMAIL, DEF_ALERT, and $FROM_USER variables.

If you really want to, you can set those variables that way (after the configuration section). But you also need to put the email address into the posted data, like this:

$aFormVars["recipients"] = $YourVariableName;