formmail question

pRS317 · April 13th, 2008, 1:19 PM

I was wondering how to have the subject of an email form be the same as a user defined entry that will be included in the mailed text. In specific, I want the user's name to appear as the subject, but also be in the text of the email and only have to be entered in once by the user.

The current action for email is for formmail to use it as "from" in the inbox, but not to post it in the emailed text. Is there a way to have it in both places.

As a side question, is there a way to have the text show apostrophes instead of the code?

Thanks for looking!

**Brandonnn** · April 24th, 2008, 7:33 AM

I don't know if you have solved this already but here is what I have found by looking in the readme:

Quote:

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Field: print_config

Version: 1.5 & Up

Description: print_config allows you to specify which of the config
variables you would like to have printed in your e-mail message.
By default, no config fields are printed to your e-mail. This
is because the important form fields, like email, subject, etc.
are included in the header of the message. However some users
have asked for this option so they can have these fields printed
in the body of the message. The config fields that you wish to
have printed should be in the value attribute of your input tag
separated by commas.

Syntax:
If you want to print the email and subject fields in the body of
your message, you would place the following form tag:

<input type=hidden name="print_config" value="email,subject">

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I'm assuming you have the most updated script. Anyways based on the information above you should be able to add this snippet of code to your current form and have things working like you wanted:

Code:

<a>Name: </a><input type=text name="subject"><!--You are essentially tricking the user... by having them enter their name but this field will actually be used as the subject and subsequently be printed in the body by way of the next line-->

<input type=hidden name="print_config" value="subject"><!--this line tells formmail.pl to return the subject in the body of the email-->

Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your side question. I hope this works for you and sorry it took so long for a response. I... just don't have anything to do

4am in the morning except sleep... but I can't quiet my mind... so yeah TMI hehe.

ciao

April 13th, 2008, 1:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
pRS317 Registered User Fresh Surpasser Joined in Apr 2004 5 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	formmail question I was wondering how to have the subject of an email form be the same as a user defined entry that will be included in the mailed text. In specific, I want the user's name to appear as the subject, but also be in the text of the email and only have to be entered in once by the user. The current action for email is for formmail to use it as "from" in the inbox, but not to post it in the emailed text. Is there a way to have it in both places. As a side question, is there a way to have the text show apostrophes instead of the code? Thanks for looking! Last edited by pRS317; April 13th, 2008 at 1:25 PM.

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