Autoresponder Reply To Front Page Form

**wallyb** · November 12, 2005

I would like to have an autoresponder reply to the email address in my Front Page website form:

http://www.q-check.com/register30days.htm

Can anybody help me on this?

Thanks and Regards

**jnull** · November 12, 2005

You can go into your Control Panel, and choose Mail, and then there is an option where you can create an autoresponder to a domain email address. Much easier to do it this way than through a web form.

**TweezerMan** · November 12, 2005

Welcome to the forums, wallyb! :clapping:

**TCH-Rob** · November 12, 2005

Welcome to the forums, wallyb:)

**TCH-Bruce** · November 12, 2005

Welcome to the forums, wallyb

**TCH-Thomas** · November 12, 2005

Welcome to the forum, wallyb.

**wallyb** · November 12, 2005

You can go into your Control Panel, and choose Mail, and then there is an option where you can create an autoresponder to a domain email address. Much easier to do it this way than through a web form.

thanks for that but I'm not sure I understand how that method would reply to the email address of the person who is submitting the form.

**TCH-Bruce** · November 12, 2005

It would if you had your form going to an email address for only form submissions.

**jnull** · November 12, 2005

When you create an auto responder in your control panel setup, any email coming to it is responded to.... so, if your form results are sent via email to that address, with the person submitting the form as the from address, the autoresponder will respond to the from address. You can use any type of CGI for the form results, or also use PHP (which is what I do). As a matter of fact, I also use PHP to send a form result to the person submitting the form. Be happy to give you the code via posting here on this forum if you're not sure how to do all that.

**wallyb** · November 12, 2005

When you create an auto responder in your control panel setup, any email coming to it is responded to.... so, if your form results are sent via email to that address, with the person submitting the form as the from address, the autoresponder will respond to the from address. You can use any type of CGI for the form results, or also use PHP (which is what I do). As a matter of fact, I also use PHP to send a form result to the person submitting the form. Be happy to give you the code via posting here on this forum if you're not sure how to do all that.

OK but I was under the impression that the website is forwarding the form so that the autoresponder would be replying to the website submission address and it would not automatically find the email of the client which is included in the form. I think somehow I have to find a way to segregate that email address in the form and be able to reply to it (by the way the form gets imported into our client software registration so I don't want to fool with changing it).

**jnull** · November 12, 2005

Here is the code that I use, it involves two pages, one that they send the message to you from, and one that is called by the form action. I'm sure this can be tweaked in a variety of ways as the code I am providing is simple-and-sweet.

This is the code for the web page that has the form, name it something like "contactme.htm". The action="thankyou.php" is the web page called by the form when submitted.

</form>

This is the code for the thankyou.php web page... note: the extension of the page must have the .php extension for this to work. I place the following at the top of the page before the <html> tag. It just checks to make sure they have given you some kind of information, and that the email address they gave is a functional email address.

<?php

$missinginfo = "no";

$FirstName = $_POST['FirstName'];

if ($FirstName == "")

{$missinginfo = "Yes";}

$LastName = $_POST['LastName'];

if ($LastName == "")

{$missinginfo = "Yes";}

$Email = $_POST['Email'];

if(eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $Email))

{}

else {$missinginfo = "Yes";}

?>

Then, somewhere in the body of the web page, place this to actually send the message.....

<?php

if ($missinginfo == "Yes")

{

print "";

print "Required information is missing from your submission. Please use your back button to change the information you have provided and to resubmit it. ";

print "";

print "Organization: $Organization ";

print "Name: $FirstName $LastName ";

print "Address: $Address1 ";

print "Address: $Address2 ";

print "City: $City ";

print "State: $State ";

print "Postal Code: $PostalCode ";

print "Country: $FromCountry ";

print "Telephone: $Telephone ";

print "Email: $Email ";

print "Ministry Area: $ForDepartment ";

print "Your Message: $Message ";

print "";

}

else

{

// SEND EMAIL TO ME

$subject = "Contact From www.somesite.com";

$emessage = "";

$emessage .= "Email Contact From xyz Web Site ";

$emessage .= "Name: $LastName, $FirstName ";

$emessage .= "Email: $Email ";

$emessage .= "";

$headers = "From: $Email\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

$success = mail($to, $subject, $emessage, $headers);

print "";

print "Thank you for contacting us! Your message has been emailed! ";

// SEND AUTOMATIC REPLY EMAIL TO PERSON WHO SENT THE MESSAGE

$replymessage = "Thank you for sending me an email from my web site.";

$subject = "Thank you for contacting Missionary TECH Team";

$to = $Email;

$from = "YOUREMAIL.COM";

$emessage = "";

$emessage .= $replymessage;

$emessage .= "";

$headers = "From: $from\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

$success = mail($to, $subject, $emessage, $headers);

}

?>

Edited November 12, 2005 by jnull

**stevevan** · November 13, 2005

Good explanation Jim.

And welcome to the forums wallyb!

**wallyb** · November 14, 2005

Here is the code that I use, it involves two pages, one that they send the message to you from, and one that is called by the form action. I'm sure this can be tweaked in a variety of ways as the code I am providing is simple-and-sweet.

This is the code for the web page that has the form, name it something like "contactme.htm". The action="thankyou.php" is the web page called by the form when submitted.

<form method="POST" action="thankyou.php">

<input type="text" name="FirstName" size="55"></td>

<input type="text" name="LastName" size="55"></td>

<input type="text" name="Email" size="55"></td>

<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1">

<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2">

</form>

This is the code for the thankyou.php web page... note: the extension of the page must have the .php extension for this to work. I place the following at the top of the page before the <html> tag. It just checks to make sure they have given you some kind of information, and that the email address they gave is a functional email address.

<?php

$missinginfo = "no";

$FirstName = $_POST['FirstName'];

if ($FirstName == "")

{$missinginfo = "Yes";}

$LastName = $_POST['LastName'];

if ($LastName == "")

{$missinginfo = "Yes";}

$Email = $_POST['Email'];

if(eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $Email))

{}

else {$missinginfo = "Yes";}

?>

Then, somewhere in the body of the web page, place this to actually send the message.....

<?php

if ($missinginfo == "Yes")

{

print "";

print "Required information is missing from your submission. Please use your back button to change the information you have provided and to resubmit it. ";

print "";

print "Organization: $Organization ";

print "Name: $FirstName $LastName ";

print "Address: $Address1 ";

print "Address: $Address2 ";

print "City: $City ";

print "State: $State ";

print "Postal Code: $PostalCode ";

print "Country: $FromCountry ";

print "Telephone: $Telephone ";

print "Email: $Email ";

print "Ministry Area: $ForDepartment ";

print "Your Message: $Message ";

print "";

}

else

{

// SEND EMAIL TO ME

$subject = "Contact From www.somesite.com";

$emessage = "";

$emessage .= "Email Contact From xyz Web Site ";

$emessage .= "Name: $LastName, $FirstName ";

$emessage .= "Email: $Email ";

$emessage .= "";

$headers = "From: $Email\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

$success = mail($to, $subject, $emessage, $headers);

print "";

print "Thank you for contacting us! Your message has been emailed! ";

// SEND AUTOMATIC REPLY EMAIL TO PERSON WHO SENT THE MESSAGE

$replymessage = "Thank you for sending me an email from my web site.";

$subject = "Thank you for contacting Missionary TECH Team";

$to = $Email;

$from = "YOUREMAIL.COM";

$emessage = "";

$emessage .= $replymessage;

$emessage .= "";

$headers = "From: $from\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

$success = mail($to, $subject, $emessage, $headers);

}

?>

Hi,

Thanks for helping me out here but I think I found an easier solution. Your solution would not have worked because in the place of the confirmation page I have a demo software.exe file so that the moment a client submits the form the software begins to download.

I found that all I had to do in Front Page was this:

In the Forms Properties box click on Options and then Email Results

In the Reply-to: line click on Form Field Name and under that I typed in the name of the form field on the form that contains the email address of the client.

The form is emailed to my server as coming from the email address entered by the client and the autoresoponder sends them the message.

Thanks again for your help

**jnull** · November 14, 2005

That's great ... so glad you found a solution that works for you!

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