sending emails from a page

[hjones43]

I have been using PHPMailer available on the server where my site resides instead of the WWB built-in PHP form processor script to send emails out because of various problems I had with it. But there's so much PHP coding I've had to do myself with PHPMailer it's tedious and the resulting emails are pretty ragged looking. Not many formatting options.

I'm looking for a simpler solution in which I engage an online service to whom I send the form information, they use a template they would help me design and then send the email out. I presume it would be a monthly service I'd pay for and that's okay.

Questions: Is this a reasonable approach for a novice with WWB like me? If so, can you give me an online service or tell me key words to find them in a Goggle search? Is their some other approach you can suggest?

Thanks,
Harry Jones

[Pablo]

First note that the built-in form processor also supports PHP mailer.

The form tools also work with third party (online) form scripts.
In most cases it's just a matter of setting the 'action' property of the form to the URL of the online service.

[hjones43]

Hi. I've been unable to locate any third party (online) company who do form scripts. Can you give me an example or two of such companies?
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Harry Jones

[WWBman]

Have you tried the built-in form processor?
If you had problems with it I'm sure they can be solved if reported here.
It must have been used thousands of times successfully.
There is also the DBTS Form Processor extension.

[Pablo]

I've been unable to locate any third party (online) company who do form scripts.

For example:
http://www.formbuddy.com/
https://www.mycontactform.com/
https://www.web-form-buddy.com/
https://www.siteslike.com/similar/formbuddy.com

[hjones43]

Hello WWBman. Thank you for your response. My actual problem isn't with getting the information off the form. I need to refresh my memory on how the builtin PHP from processor works - likely a PHP script. Because I was trying to get up to speed on PHP programming at the time, I coded extraction of information and storage myself. Good learning exercise but huge amount of work. So I think I am at the same place as the PHP form processor - ready to send out an email. I did that myself using PHPmailer. Both on the local server I set up on my PC for development purposes and on the commercial server that hosts my live site, I had perpetual problems getting the emails to go out. That's what prompted me to look for a solution that transmitted the form data to an online service that would put the data into a well formatted email and send it along to the person who completed the form and cc: me. I talked to Constant Contact. Because I'm not building with a CMS platform (e.g.,WordPress ) that turned out to be impractical. Now I'm looking at a software package WebSite Scripts ( www.web-site-scripts.com ) that will allow me to build more attractive forms, but apparently won't solve my email issues.

Geez - that's TMI! I think my takeaway is just focus on the email issue, fix it and get on with my live...

Best,
Harry

[Pablo]

There is no need to write a script yourself if all you want to do is send an email.
The built-in form processor script can send emails and also supports PHP Mailer.

Related tutorial:
http://wysiwygwebbuilder.com/forms.html