Form Processing Options Page

Form Processing Options Page

 

You can configure general server-side form processing options in this page.

 

Show a Confirm Data Page

A confirmation page adds an additional step before the actual submission. If this option is enabled, the confirmation page is shown when the form is submitted. The visitor has to verify the form data in the confirmation page and click on the 'Confirm' button for the final submission. Note that the form submission is not complete until the user presses the 'Confirm' button.

 

Enable this option only if you want a two-step submission.

See Also: Edit Confirmation Page

 

Send Form submission emails

Enables the option to send the submitted form data to one more email addresses. You can customize the form mail options ( the email addresses to send the form data, the email template etc ) in the Configure Form-mail Page

 

Send an auto response to the visitor who submitted the form

You can send an auto-response to the visitor who submitted the form.

The form need to have a field to accept the visitors email address and preferably, a field for her name.

You can configure the additional options for the auto-response email in the

'Configure Auto-response' page.

 

Save the form submission data in a database table

The form submission data is saved in to a database table. Only MySQL database is supported in the current version. See: 'Save to database' page

 

Save the data from the form submissions to a file on the server

The data from the form submissions are saved to a file in the server. The data is saved as a CSV ( comma separated values ) file. The Form to File Page gives additional options.

 

Do payment processing using PayPal

You can accept payments from your forms through PayPal. Check the option and configure your Paypal account in the Setup PayPal Page.

 

Do custom processing using your own Extension Modules

You can add your own custom functionality to the form by using Extension Modules. Choose this option to enable Extension Modules.

See : 'Extension Modules' Page

 

General Settings

This section contains general form processing settings.

Default Time Zone

The time zone to be used for date and time. The fields like form submission time uses this setting.

Please note that the date input fields in your form is not affected by this setting.

 

Email Format

Determines the format of the emails sent ( form submission email, auto-response email etc ). Could be text mail (no formatting) or HTML formatted emails.

 

Allow loading form values from URL

If this option is enabled, you can initialize the field values through the URL of the form.

For example, suppose you have fields Name and Email in your form. You can open the form loaded with values John and john@hiswebsite.com by opening the URL:

http://yourwebsite.com/forms/signup/signup.php?Name=John&Email=john@hiswebsite.com

 

Troubleshooting options

Enable Logging
If logging is enabled, the script logs errors and other general information to a text file on the server. In case any error happens, you can download the log file to check what went wrong.

 

See Also:

 

Email address to receive errors
If an email address is provided in this field, then the script sends errors to the provided email address. This is very helpful because you will come to know of the errors immediately.
It is recommended that you provide an email address in this field for every form that you make.

 

Debug mode
Display errors on the page itself. This option helps getting the errors immediately on the screen.

If debug mode is unchecked, the errors are not shown on the screen (so that your website visitors won't come to know about the details of the error)

 

Enable Security validations to prevent spammers

When this option is enabled, the script will do special checks to prevent automated form submissions. If this option is enabled, you won't need Captcha in the form to protect the form from spammers.

 

It is rarely that you will need to uncheck this option.

 

Reject submissions from selected IP addresses

The form submission email contains the IP address of the form submitter. In case you observe that some particular user keeps sending you form submissions in an attempt to spam you, you can ban his IP address.