[kipaqra]

I have two forms on my website with different firld names accessing the same formmail.pl script.
One form works perfertly but the other does not work.

I have set both form headers to the same configuration ie.

HTML Code:

<form action="/cgi-bin/formmail.pl" method="POST">
        <input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="webmaster@elizabeth-lewis.co.uk"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Website Information Request"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="required" value="name,email"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="../thankyou.html"/>

the second form dows not redirect or send the email.

Any ides why?

[Nico]

Can you post both HTML forms, and the formmail script?

[mjoyce71]

I would take the non-working form and work backwards towards the working one - Meaning I'd first make the fields the same and test, etc.. To find out what's broken. FYI - I use these guys FormMail Hosting - Web Form to Email Processing - The really nice thing about them is they'll help you with your code until it works - Meaning if you just sign up with them they'll fix it for you.

Mark.

[Boraan]

When using perl it's best to let the script do the work. I'd take your form and get rid of the extra hidden values. If the script is failing it will most likely be a syntax error. In order to filter that out try letting perl do the job it was meant too

Code:

<form action="/cgi-bin/formmail.pl" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="recipient" value="">
<input type="text" name="subject" value="">

Next let perl handle all of the data.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my($recipient) = "$FORM{recipient}";
my($subject) = "$FORM{subject}:'

# Check to see that all fields are filled out.
my(@required) = ("$recipient", "$subject");
foreach my $i(@required) {
if ($i eq "") {
print "You must fill in $i. Press back in your browser to try again.";
exit;
}

# Handle data if passed.
my($redirect) = "thankyou.html";

print redirect('$redirect');

Once your post information is good to post the information where you want it to go, perl will handle everything in between. Once the data matches on both forms they will work. character like @, if they aren't handled correctly will usually kick a syntax error, which is why we let perl handle them.