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Make sure at this point, you've
set your action attribute and added the necessary
two hidden elements to your form. If you have not,
here's how.
Before the form is ready to be
published, two more files need to be created, email.txt
and output.html.
The purpose of email.txt is to
serve as the template for the email sent when the
user submits the form.
The purpose of output.html is
to be what the user sees after submitting the form.
Typically, this is a "thank you" screen.
Email.txt
This is the email template the script will use to
send the user's results. It is important that all
your form elements were named. These names are how
eform pulls the information from the form.
In this file, put your form element name inside square
brackets [ ], and the script will replace it with
the user response. A form element can be a textfield,
radio button, checkbox or any other of these items.
Open a simple text editor (SimpleText or Notepad)
and name it "email.txt". The first line
in this file will be where the user results are sent.
The "To:" is required.
Example:
To: Webpublishing@brown.edu
Next, put in where the email is coming from. If your
form gets the user's email address, use that here.
Remember, to use information from the form, put the
element's name in square brackets.
Example:
From: [email]
The script will look through your form for an element
named "email" and replace with what the
user entered.
If you want a subject to the email,
you can do that next. The value can be something you
just type in or also taken from a form element.
Example:
Subject: Form Results
Then, simply skip a line, and
type in the body of the email, using form element
names in square brackets where you want the user input
to appear.
Example:
Hi, my name is [name] and
I would like more information on [subject]. Could
you please send that to [email] or contact me at extension
[phone].
[name], [subject],[email] and [phone] would have needed
to be the names of elements in your form. Complete
example:
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To:
Webpublishing@brown.edu
From: [email]
Subject: Form Results
Hi,
my name is [name] and I would like more information
on [subject]. Could you please send that to
[email] or contact me at extension [phone].
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Save this file (as email.txt) and upload it to the
same directory that your form page is in.
Output.html
This will be the page the user sees after submitting
the form. This file is just a typical web page, nothing
more special about it. If you do want to get a little
bit fancy, you can use the form elements in this page
the same way you did in the email.txt file. For example,
if you wanted to thank your user by name, and the
form has a name field, you could add this line in
the output.html page:
Thank you [name], we will
get back to you on that request for [subject].
Once this page is completed, save
it as output.html and upload it to the same directory
as your form page and email.txt file. Now go test
it out!
At this point, you have created
a fully functional form. If you'd like to see some
additional tricks you can add to your form processing,
go to Part
3.
If you still have any questions about Brown's form
processing, send your questions to Webpublishing@brown.edu.
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