Using The Form Handler Component to Create a Form

Using The Form Handler Component to Create a Form

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Creating a form to e-mail process using the built in Fusion Form Handler Component

Step 1: Create the Container for the Form Elements

From the Standard Tools Toolbar select the Form Area Tool and draw a rectangle on your page where you wish to have your form appear.

From the Create Form palette select the type of form you wish to create. The most common type of form is a form within a table

create a table based form

When Using the table form option you get presented with the table creation tool. Select the number of columns and rows you wish for your form.

create a table based form, by selecting the rows and columns you will need

Step 2: Designing the Form User Input Area

Using the tools on the Forms Tools toolbar place your text, input boxes, multi line text areas, drop down selects, select buttons, and check boxes where you wish them to appear in your form table

Select your forms input boxes from the forms tools toolbar

From the NOF Components Toolbar select the Form Handler Component and place it within the table. The Form Handler component will be your Submit button

form Handler Tool

Select the Publish to line and from the drop down box select Email

Enter the email address you wish to have the form content sent to.

Form Handler Properties Palette

Your form should look like the one below

Finished Form

Note: Using this method (know as a mailto: form process) will only work for site visitors that have a local based e-mail client such as outlook, outlook express, edora, etc. If the site visitor only has a web based e-mail address such as a hotmail, yahoo, or gmail account they will NOT be able to use the form. Mail-to process requires that the site visitor send the form content from their computer rather than having the web server's mail program process and send the contents of the form to you.

The site visitor will also receive a windows security alert saying that the web site they are visiting is trying to send e-mail from their computer.

These 2 reasons are the strongest for using a web host solution to processing forms and sending content.

Related Forms Tutorials

Using the formmail processing script with NetObjects Fusion This tutorial shows you how to modify, set, and upload the Formmal form to email perl script

Using the Big Nose Bird Easy Forms Handler with NetObjects Fusion This tutorials shows you how to use the BNB CGI forms to email processing script within Fusion

Using the ColdFusion dynamic language to process your forms and send email This tutorial will show you how to create a form and use Cold Fusion to process the input and send you a formatted email that looks like it was created by the person sending the form

Another method of processing forms using the ColdFusion dynamic language This tutorial will go over other ways to use Cold Fusion to process your forms and send you an email

The formmailer tutorial from Southern Utah Web Design For PHP processing of forms to email use this step by setp tutorial written by Michael Evangelista

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