Creating Forms

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:03 pm

Feedback is obvioulsly being stupid so I'm changing my forms - but don't know how to get them to work without Feedback. If found a site that is suppose to tell you how to make them with php...(whatever it is), but my form isn't working.

Anyone out there able to help me?

Post by **StarFyre** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:07 pm

Can I see the code, if you've tried to write it? It might be something as simple as a missed ; or it might be something as complicated as a statement or more mixed up/written incorrectly/whatever. Without the code its hard to say.

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:07 pm

The Form (saved as HTML)

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<form> 

<B>Personal Information</b></br>
Your Online Name: <INPUT>
</br>
*Your E-mail Address: <INPUT>
</br></br>
<B>Candidate Information</b></br>
<img>Name: <INPUT>
</br>
Hyphanated Name: <INPUT>
</br>
<img>Race or Species: <INPUT>
</br>
<img>Gender: <INPUT> Male <INPUT> Female <img></br>
<img>Age: <INPUT>
</br>
<img>URL: <INPUT>
</br></bR>
<B>Other Information</b></br>
1st Color Request: <INPUT>
</br>
2nd Color Request: <INPUT>
</br>
3rd Color Request: <INPUT>
</br>
Color Not Preffered: <INPUT>
</br>
Gender Prefferance: <INPUT>
</br>
Clutch Standing For (if more then one): <INPUT>
</br>
Selected Dragon Name: <INPUT>
</br></br><center>
<B>Comments, Questions, or Concerns:</B></br>
<TEXTAREA> </TEXTAREA>
</br></bR>
<input></form>

PHP page...saved as .php..

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<html><body>
Something, I think.......
</body></html>

When I tried using the basic code from the site, the php page didn't show up right either...If the original didn't work, then I know the tweeked version for my page wouldn't work.

Post by **StarFyre** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:11 pm

I'll work on this as soon as I finish the other stuff that needs to be done (programming homework, mainly, though I have to help my mom with a paper for her classes as well)

If someone else can give you a solution faster than I can, more power to you guys *grins* Like with all things HTML and pagebuilding, I'm still learning, so I might not be as fast as I could be.

Xalia · Post by **Xalia** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:27 pm

Is this a form on your new site? Because they have an explanation of an easy-easy way to set up email forms. That's how I set up the forms for kilandaia and Shard's elf form...

If you need an explanation on how to do it I can tell you but e-starr has it right there in the cpanel...it's cgimail or something like that...

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:50 pm

Do they? I didn't know they did that. I'll look at that later. I'm not use to this domain thing...need to check out the other options, too, though I know I won't be creating a chat room.

Xalia · Post by **Xalia** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:47 pm

Heh, yeah...there's other things other than chat rooms...you can actually set up a board just like this one as well...and probably a ton of other stuff that I just haven't explored yet... XD

Let me know if you need help with your cgimail forms...

Post by **Dray** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:29 pm

Speaking of chatrooms, this may seem completely out of the blue, but does anybody know where to get a half decent chat-room set up for a bunch of 14-year-old zombie-fanatic boys? XD I joined a Resident Evil RP and they're wondering about setting one up.

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:32 pm

Should I put up my new form html, Xalia? I was wondering if you'd gotten around to figuring out what to do with it, but I haven't actually put that new one up yet. ?? *confuzzled*

Xalia · Post by **Xalia** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:51 pm

Bah...I'm sorry, Shard...life's been crazy and I forgot all about it!

I'll try to work on it tomorrow...I've got the day off...

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:57 pm

That's cool - I just wasn't sure whether you'd done something with it and I was behind the times

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:58 am

*glowers* Okay, Xalia. I give up trying this on my own. I went to the CPanel page for my site, clicked on the form thing and came to a dead end. I clicked the link on that page but I got a page that said something about the adminastrator not allowing that script or something like that. Is that something I did when setting everything up in the beginning or me just being stupid? =(

Xalia · Post by **Xalia** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:27 pm

It should let you create cgimail forms...everything was just there for me when I went to create everything... O.o Can you maybe take screenshots of where you're going so I can see what's going on?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:09 pm

*pokes nose in*

I can help you do them with PHP, Yakima.

If what you're trying right now won't work, send me a PM or poke me on MSN. ^.^

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:31 pm

Ok...I go to my CPanel and click FormMail Clone - the only thing I can find that appears to to with forms. Then I get a page that says this:

FormMail Clone is clone of Matt Wright's FormMail under a less restrictive liscense. It should behave almost exactly as FormMail.cgi, but it is completely written from scratch so there might be a few minor visual differences.

The Actual Script is here: http://wolf-mage.com/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi

The documentation for Matt Wright's FormMail.cgi might be helpful if you have never used FormMail before. It is available here. Please note that the CPanel developers are not associated with Matt Wright's Script archive in any way.

I click the link for the actual script and get this:

FormMail-Clone
The system administrator has disabled this script.

Sorry, to lazy to fight with photobucket for screenshots...

Xalia · Post by **Xalia** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:17 pm

Okay, you're in the wrong place. You need to go to the CGI Center and then CGI Email. That'll take you to a page telling you you've got CGI email up okay (if it doesn't then you don't...and I don't know how to help you there... >.> ) and it'll have links to what you need. Click on "the cgiemail user guide and that should get you all set up.

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:33 am

That's weird...I can't find CGI Center at all...I can only find CGI Wrapper...

Xalia · Post by **Xalia** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:17 pm

Huh...maybe you don't have the same type of package I have? O.o I don't know what to tell you...

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:23 pm

I have the cheepest, $5 a month one...*shrug*

I'll just have to figure out a different way...thanks, though, Xalia...

*will deal with said problem when computer is fixed...*

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:15 am

Which host do you use? I'm curious because I'm looking into getting a hosted site again.

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:15 pm

Xalia and I use Estarr...it's $5 a month for 200MB...I'll probably upgrade after a while but for now that is the one I have.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:36 pm

Awesome. XD That's who I used to go through. Then I decided that I didn't have a use for my own site... so I got rid of it. Now I've found the nexus, and my roommate & best friend wants to build a site, so it's looking good again.