[bobby444]

Hello..
I need a bravenet alternative for free form processing.

(reason) Bravenet recently started showing a "your about to submit form information" type of page BEFORE showing my redirect thankyou page. AND its makes it very UN professional looking. I don't know why they added that. Folks usually know that They Just Filled Out a FORM and are submitting it! duh!

BUT unfortunately.. I can not find a remote form processor that has ALL the bravenet features. They either have this. but not that.. or have that..and not this.

I use these forms so people may order my simple flash banners.
Then they are redirected to my paypal order button page.

WHAT I NEED:
() A form host that simply needs the usuall form TAG Inputs WITHOUT having to MAKE every single form entry from their site. and all orders go to the same email address.

<form action= The remote form host url -- myidhere
<input type=ALL form tag inputs accepted.
<input type=hidden THANKYOU PAGE.
<input type=hidden SUBJECT

(WHAT I DO NOT WANT)
(1) I do not want to have to make 20 different forms for every form tag input,different thankyou page and subject for every banner order form! I have yet to find a host that has these options yet. They all have ADD a form..Add a new input tag....Add new redirect. Thus I'll be there a week making a form for every banner order form with the different thankyou page and subject line.
(2) No forms that have my email address written inside the form tags itself. thus spammers will be getting my address.

Basicly I need it exactly like "bravenet" forms
but withOUT the "your about to submit form information" type page.

(ooohh... Like I didn't know that I just enter text into a form and totally forgot that I pressed the send button to send the info.. rrrrright t t t t t t..)

Thanks for anyone that may have a good site to suggest.
I have tried about every one here at hotscripts.
Remember: It needs to be free...needs to be remotely hosted.

[Damian]

I can't help you there coz i don't know any but i cannot help but ask... Why remotey hosted ? It's only 3 lines of php code to process a form.

[Damian]

It's me again... Just had an idea, you can find a free hosting provider which supports php, upload a php script that you do to process the form. And like that, it's remotely hosted, free and without the stupid "your about to submit" crap.

[bobby444]

Originally posted by Damian
Why remotey hosted ? It's only 3 lines of php code to process a form.

Well,the free host that I am with does not have php or cgi.
I dont get loads of orders every month or else I would consider paying for web hosting of course.

Get a free host with php?
Yeah,that's what it looks like I am going to have to do.
But most free host that I have seen does not have "sendmail" available or eventually disable it due to some spammer.

I guess I'm just trying to make it easier on myself.
I will wait a bit and see if anyone else has any remote form host suggestions.

Have any suggestions for the best Php form processing script?

Thanks.

[Damian]

Use MAIL() that'll work. That's supposed to be configured with the servers mailing system. To process a form you do something like this. Put the following in mail.php

<?php

$extra = "Reply-To: $email\r\n";
$mess = "E-Mail : $email\nName : ".$name."\nIP:".$REMOTE_ADDR."\n\nMessage:\n--------\n".$message;

mail("users@theirmail.com", $subject, $mess,
"From: Whatever Website\r\n"
."Reply-To: $email\r\n");


echo("Thanks. Your message has been sent.<br><br><a href=\"".$HTTP_REFERER."\">Go Back.</a>\n");

?>

This is just a contact form. Of course you'll get the picture... Besides if you need help just supply more detailed information and what your form is doing.

[amailer]

If you fidn a free PHP host, please tell me! lol i host my sites off my comp which is totaly anoying since i cannot keep my comp on 24/7 and my frends/people complain about it. And i used to use bravenet also, i stopped using it even before the new stuff came out, i find them very...oh anyway Damian's script works, atleast i tried it, if you cannot find a free hsot that supports PHP [ i can't find 1 ] then try using your own computer, install Apache, or if your using Win XP PRO [ like me ] you coudl use IIS, but i liek apache better, im getting a linux system soon WEE

BTW, why is your site not working? either it loads after some hrs, or it does nto load at all

[bobby444]

Hey amailer.

* Haven't had time yet....
BUT,I do know where to go look for a php host when I get ready.
Click on down to www.freewebspace.net
The webspace forum is pretty good..thats where I look first.
http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/f....php?forumid=2
(Admin.. remove the links if its not allowed for some silly reason.)

*Why not use my own computer? 2 reasons...
(1) Im on a dial up. But yes,I do have a webserver,
and have used it a few times,but only for my friends for those few minutes.
(2) You could get hacked easier by enabling php and/or cgi.
Is that what happen to your sites? I even seen some cgi exploit probes while I had my webserver running. But they didn't get in.. hehe.. Don't have xp,But I wouldn't use IIS anyway...

* My site is working... It just loaded right up.
May have just been down at that time you were trying it... it does that accasinally... also view it in IE internet explorer. it may look choppy in other browsers. Although it looks the same in ie as it does on my buddys aol browser when I checked it out. But thats not the site I need the forms on though...

[amailer]

Nice site! i like it even thought it is not the site you need the forms on lol, which is the site you need them on?, and no i did not get hacked, and thx for the free webhosting site, but i don't think it supports mySQL does it?

[bobby444]

Hey.. thanks for liking my site.

ahh.. the freeweb link is to a site that list free webhost and reviews/opinions etc. hehe.. The forum is great.. ask the type of host your looking for...and somebody will tell ya. But search around first,someone most likely already asked the question you have.

[darkcarnival]

cmail is a gr8 choice. i use it and it is very flexable now the success page is already a feature so u wont need the success page.