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Getting started, firstly you need create an HTML form with the following tags:
- A standard <form> tag that contains the path to the Form -> Email processing script
<form method= “post” action=”http://www.ipower.com/scripts/formemail.bml”> - A hidden tag. This tag means it cannot be seen by your customers and tells the form where to email the contents of the form.
<input type=”hidden” name=”my_email” value=”youremail”>
Create an Input field for each piece of data you wish to collect. To create an input field you can use a tag such as this:
- <input type=”text” name=”fieldname” size=”25″>
For example if you wanted to create a input field called fullname it would look like this:
- <input type=”text” name=”fullname” size=”25″>
You can customize the default subject line by using this hidden tag and replacing subject with what you want the subject to be:
- <input type=”hidden” name=”subject” value=”subject”>
If you want to include one of the input fields in the return email’s subject field, all you need to do is replace “Subject” in your code with the NAME of the field surrounded by %%. For example, if your form contains a field name firstname, it would look like this:
- <input type=”hidden” name=”subject” value=”form submission from %%firstname%%”>
If you want to make a certain input field required in your form. Use the following tag
- <input type=”hidden” name=”required” value=”field1,fieldn”>
For example, if you were making the field named emailaddress and firstname, your tag would like this:
- <input type=”hidden”name=”required” value=”emailaddress, firstname”>
You can send your visitors to various URLs after they have completed the form. To send them to a specific page after they have completed the form successfully by using the tag below and replacing “yoururl” with the page name. The URL does not have to be on your site or even hosted with IPOWER. It is best to use full path names (http://www.yoursite.com/page.html) and not local paths (/page/html).
- <input type=”hidden” name=”thankyou_url” value=”yoururl”>
If a customer fills out your form incorrectly, you can customize the “error” page by they see inserting the following line of code in your form:
- <input type=”hidden” name=”error_url” value=”yoururl”>
Changing the order of your form results. By default, the results of your form are displayed alphabetically by field name. To change this order, you will need to use:
- <input type=”hidden” name=”order” value=”field,field2,field3″>
Adding a blind carbon copy (bcc) email address. You can have an email address as an blind carbon copy to the results of your form. Use the following syntax to add a bcc email address:
- <input type =”hidden” name =”bcc” value=”bbcemailaddress”>
Specifying a return email address. To have your customers insert their email address into your form. Use the following syntax to have your customers add their email address:
- <input type=”text” name=”email”>
Adding Submit and Reset buttons. Include buttons to submit your customer’s data or reset values. You can change the text that appears on the button by editing the value field. Use the following syntax to include submit and reset buttons:
- <input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”Submit Now” >
<input type=”reset” name=”reset” value=”Reset” >
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