new post - Form handling continuation

[Kim K]

Good morning, I thought I would start fresh so the question does not get
buried.

I am trying to figure a way to prevent spam in FP however I have used FP
form handler and the forms are HTML. From what I am gathering I need to do
something different in order to use a captcha as FP will not allow this and
it also depends on the host. Correct so far?

Here are my new questions if you can please help, I am trying to resolve
this before I have to go back to work..........

What if I resave the current form in aspx type? Can I then inject the code
for a captha?

what about something like formsmart.com?

The site is hosted by godaddy, does anyone have any idea if and what support
godaddy has to help with form handling?

Sorry to be so daft about all this I am just trying to learn and be able to
explain it to my friend so any help given is MUCH appreciated

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you rename the form with a .aspx extensions, your web host must support ASP.net (Windows IIS web
server), and you will not be able to use the FP form handler to process the form, therefore you will
have to write your own custom Form Handler for ASP.net.

You have to contact GoDaddy regarding what they support or do not support, however many FP user have
report various problems when using GoDaddy server where GoDaddy will not help them.



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[Ronx]

GoDaddy supports "classic" ASP and asp.Net 2 on their Windows servers,
but the help their support staff will give is very limited (based on
posts in these newsgroups).

 

[Bert Christensen]

You might look at Coffee Cup form builder at http://coffeecup.com

This uses Flash and your email address is completely hidden.

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GoDaddy supports "classic" ASP and asp.Net 2 on their Windows servers, but
the help their support staff will give is very limited (based on posts in
these newsgroups).
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Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

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[Brenda]

Ron,

I am in the same situation as is Kim. I am trying to help a girl friend
with her website (just rebuilt her website for her). She also hosts her
website on godaddy.com. It is on a Windows server.

My friend wants to have a "sign up" for potential clients, so she can
contact them when she has special promotions, etc. She wants some sort of
validation so people are not just submitting someone else's email address.

I am totally lost in all of this. I did contact GoDaddy support, but found
their staff to be quite limited. I am using FP2003 and have this very
simple form set up (not linked to her website).

http://www.brickwallbuster.com/form.htm

I do NOT have a clue as to where to go from here. Could you please point me
in a direction?

Thank you,
Brenda

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

There is no way to validate that an email address entered by anyone is really that person's email address

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| Ron,
|
| I am in the same situation as is Kim. I am trying to help a girl friend
| with her website (just rebuilt her website for her). She also hosts her
| website on godaddy.com. It is on a Windows server.
|
| My friend wants to have a "sign up" for potential clients, so she can
| contact them when she has special promotions, etc. She wants some sort of
| validation so people are not just submitting someone else's email address.
|
| I am totally lost in all of this. I did contact GoDaddy support, but found
| their staff to be quite limited. I am using FP2003 and have this very
| simple form set up (not linked to her website).
|
| http://www.brickwallbuster.com/form.htm
|
| I do NOT have a clue as to where to go from here. Could you please point me
| in a direction?
|
| Thank you,
| Brenda
|
|
|
|
| | > GoDaddy supports "classic" ASP and asp.Net 2 on their Windows servers, but
| > the help their support staff will give is very limited (based on posts in
| > these newsgroups).
| > --
| > Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
| > Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
| >
| > http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
| >
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Ronx]

The only way to verify the users email address is to send them an email
that they have to respond to. This requires either manual processing or
server side scripting with a database. The script depends on what
server you are hosted on, your programming skills, and what your host
supports.

In pseudo language (this is NOT a real language - you will have to
translate into whatever you decide to use):
In this code confirmlink.ext is a page used to process confirmations
from your users. The extension (.ext) will depend on the scripting
language used (.php, .asp, .aspx, .pl etc.)

The form handler (the page the form submits to):
---------------------------------
Get the form details into variables called username and emailaddress.

Assign a unique serialnumber to the request and store serialnumber,
"pending", username and emailaddress in database

Send an email to [your friend] stating username at emailaddress is
pending.

Send an email to username at emailaddress stating "please click
confirmlink.ext?id=serialnumber to show you are real, otherwise Sorry
to disturb you". The wording should be changed to be polite!

Show Thankyou page describing the process
------------------------------------

That is the code for the form handler.

The confirmation page will do the following:

----------------------------------
Get serial number from the link

Update the database, changing "pending" to "approved"

Send email to [your friend] stating username at emailaddress is approved

Show confirmation page that everything is OK
-------------------------------------

You should also have a page that allows users to remove themselves from
the list, and/or change their details.


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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

 

[Brenda]

Ron,

Thank you. You have given me a lot to think about.

Brenda