email form on blog

  • hi, I’m trying some of the email plug-ins that was mentioned to me in another post.. but I need to be able to specify to what address email goes to (I mean otherwise these email ‘plugins’ are useless.. I also tried my own form (I know how to send email w/php), but get a 404 on thankyou.php in same dir where all other files are (where index.php is.. any file I put there (like test.php) get a 404..)

    these plugins you can’t change email address..

    in the forums indicated in the readme file (https://www.linksback.org/forums/wp-contact/18-contact-plugin.html) somebody asks precisely this question, and this is answer:

    It is set to go to the default wordpress email. I will include an option to change that in the next version.

    I think an email ‘plugin’ where you can’t specify to what address email gets sent to is pretty useless..

    I need to do my own form, why do I get a 404 on thankyou.php in same dir where all other files (theme files) are??

    thank you..

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  • look at this one. ( Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form v.2.0WP ) the developer, mike, is very helpful regarding contact forms issues…

    https://green-beast.com/blog/?page_id=136

    Thread Starter maya90

    (@maya90)

    I have a mail form here https://www.francesblog.com/mail/mail.html it works fine when submitted to https://www.francesblog.com/mail/ThankYou.php.. why can’t I get this to work INSIDE blog (blog is in https://www.francesblog.com/home/index.php (but this index.php is really in https://www.francesblog.com/home/wp-content/themes/pop-blue..)

    mail sent from here
    https://www.francesblog.com/mail/mail.html

    also gets sent fine…

    but if I send the email from anywhere INSIDE the blog, even if I submit to ThankYou.php OUTSIDE the blog it doesn’t work if the form is INSIDE the blog.. I get an email from address “syntax-error” and email is empty (I ran a test, none of info in form gets passed to ThankYou.php if the form is inside the blog, otherwise it works fine.. WHY IS THIS….)

    thank you…

    Thread Starter maya90

    (@maya90)

    thank you very much ronchicago…. I will check this tomorrow…. (I realized what happens is I can send email with php fine (I mean with my own code) — as long as I’m OUTSIDE the WP installation..)

    thank you..

    Thread Starter maya90

    (@maya90)

    this plugin looks like there’s a whole lot to configure.. I don’t understand why my own email code doesn’t work with Word Press, WP is supposed to be open-source.. I don’t like plugins, I’d rather write my own than use an interface to configure someone else’s code, when I know how to do the forms-processing myself.. (my php email works fine outside WP installation.. even with the php back-end code outside installation, if the form is inside WP installation it doesn’t work.. why is this? isn’t WP supposed to be open source?)

    these email plug-ins are full of extraneous code I don’t need (db stuff, for example, I don’t need to send anything to the db, just send a little email to an email address I specify.. that’s it..;) and WHY can only ‘moderators’ post questions in “advanced” forum? why is there no php-forum where everyone can post.. again, open source, right?????? ??

    thank you very much…

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