php/frontpage webbot issue

[sarah31]

hello. I recently changed a web site i am managing over to using php generated html pages. each page contains the changeable content with a static header and footer attached.

the problem comes with the contact page which is managed by a frontpage webbot (i was not the initial designer of this page but i have used it's code for awhile now when the page were just straight html files). that does not seem to be able to handle the .php extension.

<?php // cggroup index page

require ('templates/header.html');

?>

<div class="content">

<h1>Contact Us</h1>

<p></p>

<p>Tell us what you think about our website, our products, our organization, 
or anything else that comes to mind. We welcome all of your comments and suggestions. 
You can also call us at 1-541-341-1230</p><br>
<!-- webbot-action in the following tag is not valid HTML -->
	<form method="POST" onSubmit="" action="_vti_bin/shtml.exe/contactus.php" webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
	<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" s-label-fields="TRUE" b-reverse-chronology="FALSE" s-email-format="TEXT/PRE" 
	b-email-label-fields="TRUE" s-date-format="%d %b %Y" s-time-format="%H:%M:%S" s-builtin-fields="REMOTE_NAME 
	REMOTE_USER HTTP_USER_AGENT Date Time" s-email-address="thecomicguys@comcast.net" startspan -->
	<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="SaveResults" endspan i-checksum="43374" -->

<h2>What kind of comment would you like to send?</h2>
    <input type="radio" name="MessageType" value="Complaint">Complaint
    <input type="radio" name="MessageType" value="Problem">Problem
    <input type="radio" checked name="MessageType" value="Suggestion">Suggestion
    <input type="radio" name="MessageType" value="Praise">Praise

  <h2>What about us do you want to comment on?</h2>
    <select name="Subject" size="1" multiple>
    <option selected>Web Site</option>
    <option selected>Company</option>
    <option selected>Services</option>
    <option selected>Certification</option>
    <option selected>Graders</option>
    <option selected>(Other)</option>
    </select>
	Other:
    <input type="text" size="26" maxlength="256" name="SubjectOther">

  <h2>Enter your comments in the space provided below:</h2><br>
  <textarea name="Comments" rows="5" cols="42"></textarea>
  <h2>Tell us how to get in touch with you:</h2>
    <table>
      <tr>
        <td>Name</td>
        <td><input type="text" size="35" maxlength="256" name="Username"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>E-mail</td>
        <td><input type="text" size="35" maxlength="256" name="UserEmail"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Tel</td>
        <td><input type="text" size="35" maxlength="256" name="UserTel"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Fax</td>
        <td><input type="text" size="35" maxlength="256" name="UserFAX"></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  <input type="checkbox" name="ContactRequested" value="ContactRequested"> 
    Please contact me as soon as possible regarding this matter.<br>
  <input type="submit" value="Send to CGGroup">
  <input type="reset" value="Clear Form">
</form>

</div>

<?php //include the footer

require ('templates/footer.html');

?>

http://www.comicgradinggroup.com/contactus.php is the link to test the file out and see the error.

is it possible to use a php generated page for this contact form or will i have to use a straight html file for it to continue to work? (i have a normal html file being used in place of the .php page above)


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[redhead]

Hmm... what is it supposed to do??

Is it supposed to send the info submitted as email, then you can use the mail() function in php.
If it's supposed to put it into a database, then simply let the script in the page store it in a database..

[sde]

good question. what does front page do? does it email somebody? i have a feeling it might be, .. so if it does, .. you can just get rid of the front page crap and add your own mail functionality.

it would go something like this:

PHP Code:

<?
if($_POST){
  $message = "
    Message Type: ".$_POST[MessageType]."
    
    Subject: ".$_POST[Subject]."
    
    Subject Other: ".$_POST[SubjectOther]."
    
    Comments: ".$_POST[Comments]."
    
    Username: ".$_POST[Username]."
    
    Email: ".$_POST[UserEmail]."
    
    Telephone: ".$_POST[UserTel]."
    
    Fax: ".$_POST[UserFAX]."
    
    ".(($_POST[ContactRequested)?" Please Contact Me":"")."
    
    
      $headers="From: [email]messages@comicgradinggroup.com[/email]";
    
      mail("admin@comicgradinggroup.com","New CGG Message",$message,$headers);
}
?>

ignore the [ email][/ email] tags in the $headers line. the forum is putting those in.

[sarah31]

thanks. to answer both of you yes once the person hits the submit button it somehow evokes the frontpage mailbot which forwards the mail to the email address that is displayed in the commented section just below the tags that open the form.

why frontpage acts so mysteriously is beyond me. i assume it is because some of the people which use this ISP (?) may be more used to doing things in a wysiwyg environment and all the mysterious and kludgey-ness of that environment.

thanks for your responses and i will work on a less cumbersome php script as a replacement.

[sde]

yes, it was probably made by people who only know how to use front page.

you can put the form itself in an if/else statement:

PHP Code:

if($_POST){
  // ALL THE MAIL CODE ABOVE GOES HERE
  echo "Thank You, your message will be ...";
}else{
  echo "<form method=post action=...>";
  // the rest of the form here
}
?> 


that way it will show the form 1st, then when the post, it just says thank you and sends the email.