Make fmbadhandler repopulate name and email fields | Simple How-to

[Jeremy]

Make fmbadhandler repopulate name and email fields*

When the return link is clicked on the error page, the following entries and changes in the HTML form will make fmbadhandler repopulate the name and email fields of the form, as it now repopulates the message field only:

1. Add the line below to the HTML form, as is:
<input type="hidden" name="derive_fields" value="email=Email,realname=Name" />

(EDIT:The unnecessary reference has been edited out of the above line according to Russel's input in the next post, and the code works perfectly.)

2. Add the line below to the HTML form, as is, to prevent receiving emails with its content appearing twice:
<input type="hidden" name="mail_options" value="exclude=email;realname" />

3. Find the following line in the HTML form, and replace the word realname with Name, as shown:
<input type="text" name="Name" />

4. Find the following line in the HTML form, and replace the word email with Email, as shown:
<input type="text" name="Email" />


The content of the emails you'll receive will appear as follows:

Name: Name of sender
Email: eMail address of sender
mesg: Sender's message.

* Although I got this to work perfectly, I really can't write code; I simply followed directions from the links listed below.
If those of you who can write code see how this code should be changed and/or improved, please post the changes?

http://www.tectite.com/fmdoc/creating_forms.php

http://www.tectite.com/vbforums/show...realname+email

[russellr]

Hi,

Thanks for your simple HOW-TO....I'll copy it to the HOW TO forum.

Regarding:

(I added imgverify as without it for some reason it lost its required status)

I can't see how that would happen. The "required" or "conditions" fields in your form are untouched by FMBadHandler.

[tomdkat]

Thanks for this information! I ran into this issue recently and your HOWTO worked perfectly! Peace...

[Jeremy]

Thanks for letting me know it was useful to you.

[about2flip]

Hi:
The line below, do you have to do this with all the fields you want to repopulate when the user returns to the form?

<input type="hidden" name="derive_fields" value="email=Email,realname=Name" />

I am not using realname. I am using firstname, lastname, email, email2 (to verify email), phone, message.

The same thing with this line:
<input type="hidden" name="mail_options" value="exclude=email;realname" />

do i exclude all my fields that I mentioned above?

Thanks for your help.

[about2flip]

I tried playing with the code, and do I put the code in my contactus.html form, or my template for fmbadhandler? When I hit my retun_link there is nothing repopulated in the fields, and my exclude email still sends the email and realname.

Thanks

[faypj]

Thanks Jeremy for very helpful post.

One minor but important correction
<input type="hidden" name="mail_options" value="exclude=email;realname" />

should be:

<input type="hidden" name="mail_options" value="Exclude=email;realname" />

with capitalised Exclude

Now works pefectly.

Grateful thanks to Russell

Peter