Probelm with fmbadhandler $return_link

[mitchellyachting]

Firstly let me thank the developers of Formmail and the fmbadhandler for some excellent software. The email generation and the redirect to a success page work perfectly.

I have implemented this on my website but I am getting an error when I try to use the return to form link when the form is not filled in correctly..

The error I receive is:-

Cannot open form URL: http://www.mitchellyachting.com/form...6a1f799e7cc9&: Failed: 404 Not Found

My site is configured so that formmail.php which is named ttfp.php, fmbadhandle.php form.htm are all in a directory called forms. The success.htm and failure.htm files are in a sub directory called /forms/templates

I have the following configuration in form.htm:-

<input type="hidden" name="bad_template" value="failure.htm" />

<input type="hidden" name="bad_url" value="http://www.mitchellyachting.com/forms/fmbadhandler.php" />

<input type="hidden" name="this_form" value="http://www.mitchellyachting.com/forms/form.htm" />


In fmbadhandler.php I have the following configs:-

$TARGET_URLS = array("http://www.mitchellyachting.com/");
$TEMPLATEDIR = "";
$TEMPLATEURL = $SCHEME.$SERVER."/forms/templates";

I have searched the forums and the documentation but I don't seem to be able to find what I am doing wrong.

Can someone help please.

Thanks,

Craig M

[mitchellyachting]

Looks liek the thread software rtruncated the error message I was trying to post. Here it is again:-

Cannot open form URL: http://www.mitchellyachting.com/forms/form.htm?
USER_AGENT=Mozilla%2F4.0+%28compatible%3B+MSIE+7.0%3B+
Windows+NT+5.1%3B+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322%3B+.NET+
CLR+2.0.50727%29&sessid=304faebe6b2a562b1fef6a1f799e7cc9&:
Failed: 404 Not Found

[Maverick]

Hello, I am getting a similar error. I'm not sure what is causing it. I just upgraded my server's PHP version to 5.2.4 from 4.4.4 and now the return links aren't working on some of my sites forms (the httpS ones - SSL certs).

I know that the OpenSSL was installed on a different directory from default due to a cPanel bug but i'm not sure if that is related to this problem.

Here is my error on SSL forms:
Cannot open form URL: https://www.myDomain.com
/CreditApplication.htm?USER_AGENT=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28Windows%3B+U
%3B+Windows+NT+6.0%3B+en-US%3B+rv%3A1.9.0.1%29+Gecko%2F2008070208
+Firefox%2F3.0.1&sessid=05a7eb711c55cba52958835003b31659&:

I don't get the 404 error at the end like you do though.

[ginger23]

Hi,

Mitchellyachting's problem is caused because he has the wrong file extension (.htm instead of .html). The form is called "form.html", but the value in "this_form" is "value.htm".

ginger

[mitchellyachting]

Hi Ginger23,

Thanks for that. This was a stupid mistake that cost me two days of work.

The return to the form now works BUT now I have a new problem in that the fields that have been filled in are cleared of information when I select to go back to the form.

Any thoughts or hints?

Thanks,

Mitchellyachting

[ginger23]

Hi,

It looks like it is maintaining all of the fields except realname and email. You can find the solution for that by viewing this thread:

http://www.tectite.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=2869

ginger

[Maverick]

Unfortunately i don't have the same problem. My forms were all working before i upgraded php to 5 from 4.

Should i hijack this thread or build another?

[ginger23]

Hi,

You really should start a new thread for your issue. It's totally different from Craig's error.

I really can't help you on this other than to ask if you're getting any error emails. The only other thing I can think to try is to rerun the test alert (using https) and see what it shows that might be different than what you currently have in the script.

ginger

[mitchellyachting]

Hi Ginger23,

I just wanted to say thank you for your help. It all works well now. I just need to work out the style of my submit button and I am done.

So thanks again.

Craig

[ginger23]

You're welcome. Glad it's all working now.

ginger