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Advanced Form Handling
Getting Started
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Making your form work with
Advanced Form Handling |
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You should be able to use Advanced form handling within
minutes. Just follow these simple steps.
- Take any existing form that you have and change the
ACTION field to afhaction.asp. For example
<form method=Post action=afhaction.asp>
- Edit the file config_forms.asp. This holds
default values for your forms. Change these values to
match your site. These are explained in the User's Guide
or click
here for online help.
config_emailaddress="Youremail@you.com"
config_emailname="Person to receive emails"
config_emailsystem="Your mail server name"
config_emaildriver="Site specific driver name"
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The email address to receive the response
For example:
config_emailaddress="me@mysite.com"
For multiple addresses use a comma to separate the
emails.
config_emailaddress="me@aa.com,other@bbb.com"
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| config_emailname |
The name of the person to receive form emails.
config_emailname="My name"
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| config_emailsystem |
The mail server. This value is very web
site dependent. If you are unsure please ask your web
host:
For Example:
config_emailsystem="mail.mysite.com"
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| config_emaildriver |
The mail driver used to actually send
mail. This is the name of an external interface that
your web host will have installed so that ASP programs
can communication with the mail server. Valid values
are: ASPMAIL, ASPEMAIL, CDONTS, CDOSYS, JMAIL, JMAL44,
OCXMAIL.
For example
config_emaildriver="ASPMAIL" |
- Start your browser and type in the location of your
form.
www.xxxxx.com/myform.htm or use the testform.htm that is
supplied
- When you click the button on your form, the Advanced
form Handler now takes over. Takes your form fields,
formats them and emails the results.
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What else can you do |
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If mailing was the only thing AFH did,
then you would not need it but it does so much more.
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Send email responses to
both the responder and to any number
of other email addresses |
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Format email using
pattern template files so that the
emails can contain html formatting,
additional text, images and links.
They can have your look and feel |
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Add attachments to
responder emails. Any number of
attachments can be sent. |
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Provide numerous
alternatives to the responder on
completion of the form; redirect to
another page, hyperlink to another
page or just a thank you message of
your choosing. Visit the configuration
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Perform basic form
validation such as making certain
fields required |
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Response messages and
administration can be in any language |
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Anti fraud protection
again unauthorized form submittal |
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Ability to control look
and feel of generated result pages |
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Store results into a
database |
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View, edit and print the
responses |
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Bulk mailing to
responders |
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Export results for
importing to Excel, Access or other
external programs |
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