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nater

Jun 17 2009, 03:51 PM

Hi, I'm new to html and php and am trying to help a client with their form on a wordpress page.
the error we are getting is "Error: Bad/No Recipient
There was no recipient or an invalid recipient specified in the data sent to FormMail. Please make sure you have filled in the recipient form field with an e-mail address that has been configured in @recipients."

Here is the code. This is linked to a form.pl file in the cgi.bin folder

CODE

Thanks for any help you can give.

Darin McGrew

Jun 17 2009, 03:56 PM

First, you'll need to add a recipient field. Then, you'll need to edit the script so @recipients includes the address you listed in the recipient field.

nater

Jun 17 2009, 03:59 PM

Like this?

CODE

nater

Jun 17 2009, 04:03 PM

QUOTE(nater @ Jun 17 2009, 03:59 PM)

Like this?

CODE

and where does it go? I tried putting it after method=POST but that didn't help.

nater

Jun 17 2009, 04:07 PM

Here is the url of the form I am working on.

http://enjoydelicioushealth.com/?cat=24

Thanks again

Darin McGrew

Jun 17 2009, 04:28 PM

Please see the FAQ entry How do I use forms?

nater

Jun 17 2009, 07:40 PM

QUOTE(Darin McGrew @ Jun 17 2009, 04:28 PM)

Please see the FAQ entry How do I use forms?

I'm still confused after reading the FAQ.

The form is looking to the FormMail.pl file and the @referers = ('enjoydelicioushealth.com','');

Is this supposed to be an email address?

And then where do i put the recipient field?

Darin McGrew

Jun 17 2009, 10:54 PM

My guess is that @recipients needs to contain a list of email addresses, and that @referers needs to contain a list of domain names.

The recipient field is probably a hidden input field:
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/input.html

The instructions that came with your FormMail.pl program should explain what hidden fields it needs, and how to specify them.

nater

Jun 19 2009, 09:49 AM

Thanks for your help Davin, I got the form to send & redirect correctly.

But now it appears that the form is only sending some of the information along with the email. What I believe caused these problems was my own fault. I had copied the contact info part of the form and moved it to the top of the form, it used to be at the bottom. I was using the view option (& not html view) on wordpress so I may have pasted over some code.

Here is the info we recieve.

From: <>
Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Subject: WWW Form Submission
To: hello@enjoydelicioushealth.com

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
() on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 10:51:34
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

other information: Testing form one more time for proper redirect.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here is the code for the form. - thanks again for the help.

CODE

pandy

Jun 19 2009, 10:21 AM

You use the same few IDs and names over and over. They can only be used once. Their values contain spaces which isn't allowed.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-id

Not related to your problem, but there are also a lot of so called 'illegal' windows characters. The validator tells you where. It tells you about the name and id problem too. And don't write web stuff in Word.

http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

nater

Jun 19 2009, 10:36 AM

QUOTE(pandy @ Jun 19 2009, 10:21 AM)

http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

Thank you Pandy. I didn't write the form (& i despise MS word- lol), I was just trying to edit it for a client.

It was working correctly until I moved the contact info to the top.

Would it be easier to just create a new form instead of fixing this one, or do these problems seem like a fairly quick fix?

nater

Jun 19 2009, 11:42 AM

I found the problem!!!

There was an extra </form> so my form was only getting the last text box.

Thank you all for your help!

Nater

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