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SalesOPs-Isaac

Aug 2 2007, 09:47 AM

Hello,

So long story short I am trying to edit the config file for a CGI that is written in PHP.

BUT I am unsure what I should put in for the variables, the email addresses were simple enough, but this part I am unsure about:

CODE

*    Prefix to identify the REQUESTED FIELDS. You can change this prefix. To be a field required put this prefix beside the input name.
*    ex. I want the field "email" to be mandatory. I call it "_rrr_email". <input type="text" name="_rrr_email">. This prefix will be automatically removed by the program, therefore think to the
*    input name without the prefix configuring the rest of this file.
**/

    $reqTag = "_rrr_";


/**
*    Specify the name of a field in the form for sender's email address. Ex. if the form contains <input type=text name=emailaddress> you should set "emailaddress" the field below
**/

    $emailField = "email";

/**
*    Specify the name of a field in the form for sender's email body. Ex. if the form contains <input type=hidden name=tipomodulo value=new_proposals> you should set "new_proposte" as below.
*    This value will be shown in the email body with the "body" ($oggetto) specified previously. If you want to see as body only this field, please delete $oggetto
**/

    $subjectField = "";

/**
*    Specify one or more fields to use as sender name.
*    Ex. if in the form i use <input type=text name=name> and <input type=text name=surname> you should define "name" and "surname" as below.
*    Please use a , between each setting and remeber to use " "
**/

    $senderNames = "Firstname, Lastname";

/**
*    If this option is set to 1, the confirmation page will show all the data inserted. If set to 0 it will print only the confirmation message without the data
**/

    $mostraInputinConferma = 1;

The HTML file has 2 small text fields and a submit button, that are supposed to email the entered information within the text fields to a series of emails addresses with a specific text.

CODE

<tr>
<td>
<font color="Yellow"><strong>Text Field 0</strong></font>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<input type="text" name="Text Field 0" id="Text Field 0" size="10" value="" />
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td valign="top">
<font color="White"><strong>Text Field 1</strong></font>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<input type="text" name="Text Field 1" id="Text Field 1" size="10" value="" />
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<input type="submit" value=" Submit Form " />
</td>
</tr>

So something like:

CODE

From: from@****.com
To: to@****.com
Subject: test0

This is text

Text field 0: 01234
Text Field 1: 56789

JamesC

Aug 3 2007, 09:08 PM

QUOTE

Ok this setting would be used if you want any of the fields to be mandatory such as the email address of the sender or the text feild like so

$reqTag = "_rrr_Text Field 0";
$reqTag = "_rrr_Text Field 1";

QUOTE

/**
* Specify the name of a field in the form for sender's email address. Ex. if the form contains <input type=text name=emailaddress> you should set "emailaddress" the field below
**/

$emailField = "email";

This would be the senders email address which would fill in the from adress. Which could also be a required field like so.
$emailField = "_rrr_email";

QUOTE

/**
* Specify the name of a field in the form for sender's email body. Ex. if the form contains <input type=hidden name=tipomodulo value=new_proposals> you should set "new_proposte" as below.
* This value will be shown in the email body with the "body" ($oggetto) specified previously. If you want to see as body only this field, please delete $oggetto
**/

$subjectField = "";

This of course is the subject field in the email which can be what ever you wish such as data form
subjectField = "Data Form";

QUOTE

/**
* Specify one or more fields to use as sender name.
* Ex. if in the form i use <input type=text name=name> and <input type=text name=surname> you should define "name" and "surname" as below.
* Please use a , between each setting and remeber to use " "
**/

$senderNames = "Firstname, Lastname";

This of course would be used only if you wanted to collect the names on the form.

QUOTE

/**
* If this option is set to 1, the confirmation page will show all the data inserted. If set to 0 it will print only the confirmation message without the data
**/

$mostraInputinConferma = 1;

You would only need to set this to 1 if you want the sucess page to print out all the information that was entered on the form, if you would just like a sucess page to show up then just set this to 0.

Now the one thing that was not covered were the Text Fields that you are trying to collect I guess seeing how that question was not asked you have already figured that part out.

Hope this helps .........

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