Custom Contact Form on within a Fragment

[Wheels UK]

Hi,

I have created a Contact Form that previously works within a normal HTML page outside Actinic.
The link to the page is:
http://www.wheels.uk.com/acatalog/suspension.html

It is currently set up like this:

<form method="post" action="[SendMailPageURL]">
<input type="hidden" name="RANDOM" value="[Random]" />
<div align="left">
<input type='hidden' name="recipient" value="john@wheels.uk.com"/>
<input type='hidden' name="subject" value="Suspension Form Results"/>
<input type='hidden' name="redirect" value="http://www.wheels.uk.com/acatalog/thanks-email.html"/>
<table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="2">

*****REST OF HTML CODING*****
</table>
</div>
</form>

When i hit 'submit' i get the following error:

A General Script Error Occurred

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Error: Could not locate the product reference.
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Press the Browser back button and try again or contact the site owner

This page that is viewed is the following link:
http://www.wheels.uk.com/cgi-bin/ca000002.pl

Now it states the product reference cannot be located, does this mean I need to add this form in a product layout to get it to work?

Could anyone help???

[Ginnys Attic]

You can create a custom contact us form very easily, you could use the simple generator available here - http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form/

[Wheels UK]

I have used my own which works fine on a normal html page, however within actinic i get the error i spoke about above.
Any ideas why?

[leehack]

I can't see an opening or closing tag for your form.

[Wheels UK]

I think i see the problem, am just re-uploading the site now...

<form method="post" action="[SendMailPageURL]">
<input type="hidden" name="RANDOM" value="[Random]" />

I havent changed the actions....oops! hopefully this will solve the problem!

[Ginnys Attic]

It's hard to say without seeing the ca000002.pl script but i would think if you have modified the original Actinic script it has some reference in there thats not in your form or maybe it's a refernece in the layout around the thanks-email.html or something.

I've just tried the following and it seems to work no problem. (you might have just got the email)

Insert the following code in to a fragment:

!!<<form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/contact.pl">
Fields marked (*) are required

<p>Email From:* <input type="text" name="EmailFrom"></p>
<input type="hidden" name="EmailTo" value="john@wheels.uk.com">
<input type="hidden" name="Subject" value="Suspension Form Results">
<p>Name: <input type="text" name="Name"></p>
<p>carmake: <input type="text" name="carmake"></p>
<p>car model: <input type="text" name="carmodel"></p>
<p>year: <select name="year" size="1">
	  	<option>Please Select</option>
        <option value="1990">1990</option>
        <option value="1991">1991</option>
        <option value="1992">1992</option>
        <option value="1993">1993</option>
        <option value="1994">1994</option>
        <option value="1995">1995</option>
        <option value="1996">1996</option>
        <option value="1997">1997</option>
        <option value="1998">1998</option>
        <option value="1999">1999</option>
        <option value="2000">2000</option>
        <option value="2001">2001</option>
        <option value="2002">2002</option>
        <option value="2003">2003</option>
        <option value="2004">2004</option>
        <option value="2005">2005</option>
        <option value="2006">2006</option>
        <option value="2007">2007</option>
        <option value="2008">2008</option>
</select></p>
<p>comments: <textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"></p>
</form>>!!

Save the following code as contact.pl and upload to your cgi-bin

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw(:standard);
print "Content-type: text/html \n\n";


# get posted data into local variables
$input = new CGI;
$EmailFrom = $input->param('EmailFrom'); 
$Name = $input->param('Name'); 
$carmake = $input->param('carmake'); 
$carmodel = $input->param('carmodel'); 
$year = $input->param('year'); 
$comments = $input->param('comments'); 

# validation
$validationOK=true;
if ($EmailFrom eq '') {$validationOK=false;}
if ($EmailTo eq '') {$validationOK=false;}
if ($validationOK eq false) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
}

# prepare email body text
$Body .= "Name: ";
$Body .= "$Name";
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "carmake: ";
$Body .= "$carmake";
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "carmodel: ";
$Body .= "$carmodel";
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "year: ";
$Body .= "$year";
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "comments: ";
$Body .= "$comments";
$Body .= "\n";

# send email 
$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t';
open(MAIL,"|$mailprog");
print MAIL "To: john@wheels.uk.com";
print MAIL "From: $EmailFrom\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Suspension Form Results";
print MAIL $Body;
close(MAIL);

# redirect to success page 
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=http://www.wheels.uk.com/acatalog/thanks-email.html">";

Obviously the form needs tidying up and formatting but the form and script work within Actinic.

[Wheels UK]

Thanks for that, have just implmented it, however it now returns a HTTP 500 Error.

http://www.wheels.uk.com/acatalog/suspension.html

Will speak to Tech Support later, unless you know anymore possibilities?

[pinbrook]

500 error normally means wrong permissions - it the script 755?

[Wheels UK]

That's what I thought straight away, the permission is changed to 755, however it still returns the same 500 error.

[Wheels UK]

I have managed to sort it using my own 'formmail.cgi' in the cgi-bin to process the action.
Finally, after taking hours searching through code and trying various different techniques.
Thanks for the help!