Form Mailer Example

You may incorporate a simple form such as this on your web page that will send email to you with the information submitted. In order to produce this form mailer on your web page, you may duplicate the form mailer code below. Be sure to review the name/value pairs. If your web page is not on RA with an address like http://www.wwu.edu/depts/xxxx or http://www.wwu.edu/xxxx then contact webhelp for more information.

Specifying a Recipient

To prevent misuse of the form, the recipient address for the form is cannot be contained in the form or on the page on which the form exists. Rather than supplying the email address directly, the 'recipient' field should specify a site-relative path to a file that contains nothing but a single line: the recipient's email address. See the example in the form below.

Name:
E-Mail:

Comments

  

This is an example of the code required to use the options of this script. 

<FORM ACTION="http://www.wwu.edu/cgi-bin/mailer2.cgi" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="recipient" VALUE="site relative path to file containing recipient address, e.g. /depts/provost/recipient.txt">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="subject" VALUE="Feedback form!">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="required" VALUE="email,name,comments">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="text_color" VALUE="#000000">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="background" VALUE="http://www.wwu.edu/depts/atus/helpdesk/graphics/atustan.jpg">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="title" VALUE="Thank you for your feedback!">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="return_link_url" VALUE="http://www.wwu.edu/depts/atus/howto/generic_mailer_example.html">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="return_link_title" VALUE="Back to feedback form!">
Name:
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name"><BR>
E-Mail:
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="email"><BR> <BR>
Comments:
<BR> <TEXTAREA NAME="comments" ROWS="5" COLS="30" WRAP="virtual"> </TEXTAREA> <BR>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit">
<INPUT TYPE="reset" VALUE="Reset"> </FORM>

The Following NAME / VALUE pairs are for configuration use only (used in hidden form input fields):

NAME	VALUE	DESCRIPTION
recipient	path	Site-relative path to a file that contains nothing but a single line: the recipient's email address. "/depts/provost/recipient.txt"
email	email address	This can be a textbox or hidden input that specifies the email address where the form data is sent from.
subject	text	This is the subject of the email. (i.e., form submission)
required	comma seperated list	This is a comma seperated list of required fields. (i.e., name,email,comments) Note no spaces between the names.
redirect	URL	This is the URL to a user specified response generated on successful form submission.
bgcolor	color name/code	Background color of the response pages
background	URL	URL to backround image
text_color	color name/code	Text color of the response pages
link_color	color name/code	Link color of the response pages
alink_color	color name/code	Active link color of the response pages
vlink_color	color name/code	Visited link color of the respnse pages
title	Response document title	Title of the successful submission response page
return_link_url	URL	The URL to page where the successful response page links
return_link_title	link text	Text to above link
missing_fields_redirect	URL	This is a URL to a user specified response to missing fields.

 

For an improvement to the form to prevent automated (spam) responses to this form, please see our how-to on adding an Anti-Spam Check for your web page.