Forms & Emailing results

[Mark K]

I am building a website for my office. It is a long and
frustrating story but the server that the site is on only
has FP2000 extensions. I published a page using FP2003
that has a feedback form that gets emailed but when I try
to use it and hit submit I just get a FP Server Extension
Error. Even though form email was a function in FP200 are
the extentions that make that work not compatable with
FP2003?

Also, since it is looking like this will never work on
this server does anyone know another way to create a page
with information fields that can be emailed? One that
doesn't require FP extensions?

Thanks

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

FP2003 will work just fine with the FP2000 extensions as the function for sending email has not
changed.

If the server is Windows IIS, then you can use ASP and CDOSYS or CDONTS to send email.

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[Mark K]

The server is a Unix server

-----Original Message-----
FP2003 will work just fine with the FP2000 extensions as

the function for sending email has not

changed.

If the server is Windows IIS, then you can use ASP and

CDOSYS or CDONTS to send email.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You would have to look into using PHP, CGI-Perl, etc.

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[sheetrum]

Check with your web hosting provider. Mine has a Unix server, butI have
found a way to get email forms to work. Using the help section, I found
that I needed to use a file called "formmail.cgi" that was easy to get from
the provider. Once I had this file in place I would get an error when
filling in an email address.

Somethnig like this: "This form cannot be sonfigured to send results via
email..........."

If you get this, just click NO when it asks "Would you like to remove the
e-mail recipient?". If you have the file (like I needed) from your
provider, it should work. I have tested my website several times (for
emailing) and I only need to set up a script to verify that users are
entering valid email addresses. (work in progress)