Thread: Formmail - Required fields problem

Code:

<form class="feedback" name="mailing-list" method="post" action="cgi-bin/feedback.pl">
<img src="images/form-header.png" />
<textarea cols="" class="doing">Tell us about your experience...</textarea>
<textarea name="" cols="" rows="" class="email">Your email...</textarea>
<img src="images/form-bottom.png" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" class="submit" value="SUBMIT"/>
<input type="hidden" name="required" value="doing,email">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="email here">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Feedback" />
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="/thanks.html" />
</form>

I am using Formmail to send the above form, but even when both fields are filled out, I still get an error message to say they haven't been. This is the second formmail in the CGI bin if that makes any difference.

Any ideas how to solve this? Thanks

Hi Mole,

I have never used formmail.pl before, but at a guess it's because you are missing the name attributes from the textarea tags.

Code:

<form class="feedback" name="mailing-list" method="post" action="cgi-bin/feedback.pl">
<img src="images/form-header.png" />
<textarea cols="" class="doing" name="doing">Tell us about your experience...</textarea>
<textarea name="" cols="" rows="" class="email" name="email">Your email...</textarea>
<img src="images/form-bottom.png" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" class="submit" value="SUBMIT"/>
<input type="hidden" name="required" value="doing,email">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="email here">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Feedback" />
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="/thanks.html" />
</form> 

I have only used Formail a few times, but hopefully this will shed some light,

similar to what oeb said, you need to label the fields

Something along the lines to

Code:

<label id="Label1">doing</label><input name="doing" type="text" />
<label id="Label2">email</label><input name="email" type="text" />

then

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="required" value="doing,Email" />

Also you may know already, but, it will look at look better if you include your own error page, so if the fields required are not filled in, it will divert to your error page.

use this

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="missing_fields_redirect" value="url to error page" />

Hope this helps

Ok. I have this working but, I have a new problem now. I have started a new thread here: NMS Formmail - Would appreciate any help. Thanks