Underscores in the email

[Sunnyoak]

Hi,
Please be gentle, I am new to the forum and to php.
I have downloaded the formmail from this site and added it to a html document that I had working with NMS formmail in the past. When these forms were sent via NMS the field names would be delivered with a space between the words ie. new or old but since changing to PHP they are coming through as new_or_used my client doesn't like this and they want to have the space back.
How can I do this?

Thanks
Maggie

[crabtree]

HTML apparently lets u put spaces in field names. i'm not sure its legal HTML, tho.

when PHP gets these, it replaces the spaces with _, so that the field names can be used within the php code as variable names.

then formmail just lists these fields names with thei values in the email u get.

the solution is to create a template, which also has the benefit of letting u format the email just the way u want.

here's the how to guide: http://www.tectite.com/fmhowto/plaintmplt.php

u can get fancier with HTML templates too.

[Sunnyoak]

Hi Crabtree
Thanks for your posting. I have tried to set up a basic html template fro the page link you have given me but I am obviously doing something wrong as it still comes through as before so I am assuming that it is not directing to the template.
I am obviosly not doing this properly.
Can I ask is says "Create a directory called "fmtemplates" at the top of your web server document root"
Now is this the same as making a folder called "fmtemplates" and if so how do I get it at the top of the document root?
Sorry for sounding "Thick"
Maggie

[Sunnyoak]

Hi Crabtree or anyone else that can help.
I have tried to make a html template to work with the formmail.

Following the instructions I have made a directory which i understand to be on my server at /home/nameremoved/public_html/fmtemplates
nameremoved is actually the account name

I have added that to my form mail $TEMPLATEDIR = "/home/removed/public_html/fmtemplates";

I saved the template in the directory /home/removed/public_html/fmtemplates
and added <input type="hidden" name="mail_options"value="HTMLTemplate=temp1" />
to my html which the form is on see details below


<form action="/fm26190AE6/formmail1.php" method="post" name="Florida Hills Availability Enquiry" target="_top" id="Florida Hills Availability Enquiry" onsubmit="MM_validateForm('email','','RisEmail','Rental Rate','','R','Dated','','R');return document.MM_returnValue">
<input type="hidden" name="mail_options"value="HTMLTemplate=temp1" />
<p align="center">
<input type="hidden" name="recipients" value="removed" />
<input
type="hidden" value="Florida Hills Availability Enquiry" name="subject" />

<input type="hidden" name="good_url"
value="http://www.floridahills.co.uk/thankyou3.php" />
<input type="hidden" name="derive_fields"
value="imgverify=recaptcha_response_field,Date=%dom0%.%'-'%.%moy0%.%'-'%.%year%,Time=%time% " />
<input type="hidden" name="alert_to"value="removed" />

When I sumbit the form I get the mssage
An error occurred while processing the form .

Please contact us (www.floridahills.co.uk) directly since this form is not working .
www.floridahills.co.uk apologizes for any inconvenience this error may have caused. and the page link as
http://www.floridahills.co.uk/fm26190AE6/formmail1.php



What am I doing wrong?
Maggie

[crabtree]

#1 - always set DEF_ALERT in FormMail so it can email u detailed error messages

#2:

<input type="hidden" name="mail_options"value="HTMLTemplate=temp1" />

is there really no space between " and value? that's wrong

#3: temp1 isn't a good name, shouldn't it be temp1.htm since it is a template for an HTML document?

#4: check u have the right folder by opening the template (temp1.htm) in ur browser.

[Sunnyoak]

Hi Crabtree.
I will look at those points tomorrow. With regards the DEF_ALERT I haven't received any mail so no clues there. I at least managed to get the plain text working at last
Maggie

[crabtree]

read this: http://www.tectite.com/fmdoc/def_alert.php

[Sunnyoak]

Had problems with this setting and getting it to work.
Just checked my mail boc and I got a @.SYNTAX-ERROR. sent on the 12th but nothing since.
Have used the same email address for various forms so perhaps I need to go back and set a different email address on this one form I am trying to do the html test on and see if I can find out what the problem is.
Thanks for your help so far much appreciated
Maggie