Another ASP Mail Form question

Posts: 2 · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:04 pm

I have a site that uses the code from here: http://www.hostmysite.com/support/programming/aspmail/

The code works. If I browse to the page directly I get an empty e-mail. When I fill out my form and hit submit, the page does nothing. Here's the code on the form page ( http://www.ribblegroup.com/ribblegroup_contactus.aspx ) :

Code:

<form action="aspmailform.asp" method="post">

<table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 60%">
<tr>
<th scope="row" style="width: 84px">Your Name </th>
<td style="width: 171px">
<input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="30" maxlength="50" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row" style="width: 84px">E-mail Address </th>
<td style="width: 171px">
<input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="30" maxlength="60" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row" style="width: 84px">Phone Number </th>
<td style="width: 171px">
<input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" size="15" maxlength="12" style="width: 186px" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row" style="width: 84px">Message</th>
<td style="width: 171px">
<textarea name="message" cols="50" id="message" style="height: 119px"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row" style="width: 84px"> </th>
<td style="width: 171px">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" id="Submit" /></td>
</tr>

</table>
</form>

here's the code from the aspmailform.asp page ( http://www.ribblegroup.com/aspmailform.asp )

Code:

<%
Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject("SMTPsvg.Mailer")
Mailer.FromName = "website"
Mailer.FromAddress= "user@ribblegroup.com"
Mailer.RemoteHost = "localhost"
Mailer.AddRecipient "Clint", "clintribble@gmail.com"
Mailer.AddExtraHeader "X-MimeOLE:Produced yourdomain.com"
Mailer.Subject = "Form Submission"

strMsgHeader = "Form information follows" & vbCrLf
for each qryItem in Request.Form
strMsgInfo = strMsgInfo & qryItem & " - " & request.Form(qryItem) & vbCrLf
next
strMsgFooter = vbCrLf & "End of form information"

Mailer.BodyText = strMsgHeader & strMsgInfo & strMsgFooter
if Mailer.SendMail then
Response.Write "Form information submitted..."
else
Response.Write "Mail send failure. Error was " & Mailer.Response
end if
set Mailer = Nothing
%>

but I don't think the aspmail page is the problem. for whatever reason, hitting submit does nothing but appear to "reload" the form page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Posts: 42 · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:15 pm

Hi there,

Sorry for the delay in someone seeing your post. I took a look at the source on http://www.ribblegroup.com/ribblegroup_contactus.aspx and one thing that stuck out is that your aspmail form is contained in another main form that wraps the whole page, the one that begins with:

Code:

Maybe this is handling the post instead? I am not a .NET expert but that is where I would start!

Take care,
Dave

Posts: 2 · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 5:45 pm

That was the problem. I'll explain why it happened, just in case someone else has the same issue.

Using Microsoft Expression Web to create an ASPX page automatically inserts a form tag. I was using a Master Pages instead of dwt pages (which, as a coldfusion guy, I'm really starting to like the concept of). Those master pages defaulted to haveing a "form" nested right inside the main body tag as well. Thus, all of my pages were contained within forms.

Thanks for catching that!
Clint

Posts: 42 · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 5:47 pm

Hey Clint,

Glad that helped! Happy developing!

-Dave