[outdated] zem_contact, flexible mailto form

aboswell · 2005-07-13 20:25:43

I have a kinda strange one. I have 2 contact forms.

1. In a misc form for our coprorate inquiries going to monkey@monkey.com
2. In a article holding a questionnaire for our vendors going to notamonkey@monkey.com

Here’s the problem. When the second contact form is live, BOTH forms go to it. And stranger still, it only shows the fields that the two have in common (name and email). I also have the text that usually shows up on the monkey@monkey.com not showing up, but it still goes through to notamonkey@monkey.com. When I remove the contact form from the article (#2 above) the misc form contact form starts working correctly again.

Some more info. The misc form is not being used anywhere the article is displayed. They are being used in different sections with different pages for code. I am using rc3 but am not sure what my release is.

ifeelcool.com · 2005-07-14 07:51:06

Hello, i am using zem_contact. Every time i submit the form is expired! It doesn’t matter if i submit it directly or wait a few minutes!
What could cause this problem?

Destry · 2005-07-14 09:02:32

@tinyfly and marvincooper: I think you might find some answers in this thread of mine. There are some bugaboos in zem_contact that you need to handle. Wilshire was very helpful.

tinyfly · 2005-07-14 14:09:14

Thanks Destry, perfect.

marvincooper · 2005-07-14 14:19:51

Thanks Destry…. wish I had known about this before I created 12 independant contact forms….

I second your request to have this as part of the txp standard installation.

skoggy · 2005-07-14 16:08:30

Maybe it´s just me more stupid than a train but anyway…
Plugin works great, but I can´t change the size of the text input area.

What should I do? If a separate form, what should it look like?
I want a bigger message area.
Tried all the attributes explained in zems documentation.

<a href=“http://www.mattiasskoog.se/tp/index.php?id=46” title=“This is a title”>This is my testpage</a> (Swedish)

Any ideas?
Thanx!

Last edited by skoggy (2005-07-14 16:10:41)

skoggy · 2005-07-16 21:01:03

never mind. CSS did the trick ;)
As I said… stupid as a train!

june · 2005-07-18 14:29:44

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way to give fields a sort of placeholder text. Using html I would simply add something like this:
value=“your name goes here”
to the input tag. But that doesn’t seem to work with your plugin tags.

When I run my contact form through Bobby it gives me the following warning:

“Include default, place-holding characters in edit boxes and text areas.”

..because that placeholder text is not there.

Any help with this would be great!

thanks!

june

june · 2005-07-18 15:14:40

one more thing…

I took a peak at the plugin code. I’m not a php programmer by any means but to me it looks like the “value” attribute is being used to retrieve newly entered text and is not available to create the placeholder text I referred to in my last post.

So I guess my question is more a feature request now. :)

thanks!

june

arkham · 2005-07-21 17:34:14

Just wondering, has anyone tried adapting this code to create an “email this article” web form?

I know that mrh_email_article_link is out there but that’s a simple mailto html link which is not very suitable to users who don’t have an email client, aren’t at their pc, etc. Seems like adapting a “contact us” form in this way would be a better solution.

Anyone already done this?

If not, I guess I’ll be venturing to be the first.

andreas · 2005-07-25 22:11:50

I’ve got a problem with this plugin that the hints in this thread and this one didn’t solve:

Whenever I try to send the message, there’s an error saying: Form expired, please try again.

Another problem (less serious, but still strange) is that the select dropdown hands out an error

Unknown [my label for the select box] that goes away once I include an empty string for the first select option.

I’ve already fixed two bugs (missing $ and a change of $Form to $form but both didn’t help.

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Oh, and if you want to try it out, here’s the page

Last edited by andreas (2005-07-25 22:13:34)

june · 2005-07-26 12:15:43

> Just wondering, has anyone tried adapting this code to create an “email this article” web form?

I would also be interested in something like this.

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