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Hi,

I've been looking around the forums and I'm getting very confused about the whole sending form data to an email.

I'm trying to create a form in which people put details in and then all the data is sent to me.

I've created an external form but now I don't know what to do now? is there any code out there in which I can use or anything like that??

Thanks

Gary
 
glockops replied on at Permalink Reply
glockops
Sorry for a year delay on an answer, but hopefully this will help others that stumble in from Google (like I did)..

External Forms are made up of two or more files.
The form HTML
The form's controller file
Separate form JavaScript/etc (optional files)

Let's say we're going to create a form that allows a customer to send you a number of widgets.

We create a form in blocks/external_form/forms/my_widget_form.php that contains all the HTML markup to create the form. In the markup we have a form field quantity and a form field email.

Now we need to create a form controller to handle all the computations associated with this form - it is created in blocks/external_forms/forms/controllers/my_widget_form.php

There should be an example of a controller for the "Test Form" in concrete/blocks/external_forms/forms/controllers/test_form.php

In the controller, you'll create a function that matches your form's action. So if your action is "order_widgets" your controller will have a function called action_order_widgets.

<?php 
defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
class MyWidgetFormExternalFormBlockController extends BlockController {
   public function action_order_widgets() {
      $val = Loader::helper('validation/form');
        $val->setData($this->post());
      // Validate your data
         // ...
      if(!$val->test()) {
         // validation failed, display error
      } else {
         // Format mail and send
         $mh = Loader::helper('mail');
         $mh->to('myemail@mydomain.com');
         $mh->from($this->post('email')); // Use submitter's email
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In this controller function, you can add validation, handlers, database connections, etc.

You can also create an "on_page_view()" function to load form CSS and JS files. Here's an example:
public function on_page_view() {
      // Include external files
      $html = Loader::helper('html/v2');
      $this->addHeaderItem($html->css('form.validation.css'));
      $this->addFooterItem($html->javascript("jquery.valid8.js"));
      $this->addFooterItem($html->javascript("form.executiveEducationRegistration.js"));
   }


For your particular problem (emailing) you'll need to make use of the mail helper (http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/helpers/mail) you'll probably also want to look at validation (http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/forms/basic-validation) and error handling (http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/system/error-handling/) and finally, you may find front-end JavaScript validation (http://unwrongest.com/projects/valid8/) useful as well.
gd42 replied on at Permalink Reply
Is it possible to somehow include the actual page title in the e-mail?

So like I have the same form on multiple different pages and I want to know on which page was the form filled?
hardingsmith replied on at Permalink Reply
You could add a hidden field to your external form template which takes the collection name (or whatever collection attribute grabs you) as it's value.
felixb101 replied on at Permalink Reply
felixb101
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