Formmail action & cgi scripts

Question

I have 2 forms I built in CS3 that have to be processed in a
secure manner. I followed the advice I found online and from my
webhost (network solutions) and downloaded Visual Form Mail Pro. I
uploaded the cgi script files to the cgi-bin on the server and
setup the permissions. When I click the submit button on the form,
I get an Internal Server Error message. I think the problem is the
action field on the properties panel. I cannot find anything that
will tell me what the action should be. I cannot use the mailto
action, the forms are for secure medical information to be
forwarded to a dr's office. One other issue with how the form needs
to be processed to email, is my client wants the email sent to his
gmail account, how do I configure that?
the url for the form I tried to configure is
https://www.stluciegi.com/contact/patientcontact.html

Answer 1

ou can use PHP on this hosting?
I'd suggest using the phpformmail script.
here's my stock cut 'n paste on what to set to what, and why
1)go to
http://http://developerkarma.com/projects
-->phpformmail
download it.
extract the ZIP file.
More detailed instructions are in the docs folder. These
shortcut
instructions are for version 1.07 of the phpformmail script.
2) open formmail.php in dreamweaver
Make the following changes (in code view, turn line numbers
on)
2a)
line 4,
define('CHECK_REFERER', true);
change to:
define('CHECK_REFERER', false);
reason: too many people use a firewall or Norton security to
restrict this.
2b)
Line 43
$referers = array('www.example.com', 'example.com');
change to the domain name of your web site.
reason: this probably isn't needed since we just turned the
referrer
checking off. but change it anyway.
2c)  *this is to hard-code the recipient address into
the php
file, where it is totally invisible *
Line 46
$recipient_array = array();
change to:
$recipient_array = array('me' =>
'[email protected]');
**of course, replace [email protected]  with
the email address
you want to receive the form data. Also note the single quote
marks.
reason: this sets the email address the form results will be
sent to.
You can also make a list of possible recipient alias values-
see the readme
in the docs folder.
2d) give the script a default "From" address to use.
Go to line 41
Change:
define('FROM', null);
to:
define('FROM', 'Example Name <[email protected]>');
substituting your name and email address.
3) now do a File-->Save As and save this file to within
this Local Site
folder. save it as anythingyouwant.php
4) in dw's File Panel, find anythingyouwant.php and upload it
to the remote
site.
5) Now open your form html file in dreamweaver,
5a)click the mouse into the form area, and select the
<form> tag on the
lower left margin of the design window.
In the Property Inspector, it should now show the properties
of the <form>
tag. In the Property Inspector, to the right of the ACTION
line, click the
folder icon and browse to and select the anythingyouwant.php
file
you've saved to within this site.
5b) now click within the form area and go to dw
menu-->Insert-->Form
Objects-->Hidden Field
This inserts a hidden form field.
In the property inspector, change the NAME/ID of this field
to: recipient
And the VALUE of this field to: me
the code should look like:
<input name="recipient" type="hidden" id="recipient"
value="me">
This tells the script to use the "me" recipient_alias value
as the email
address to send the form to.
5c: Do you have a form field to collect the user's email
address?
If yes, if this field is named exactly "email" then the
script will use the
user's email as the reply to in the outgoing email
6) Save and upload the form page.
Try the form from the website.
Optional:
1-make a new page for a thank you for submitting message.
In the form, insert another hidden field.
Name: redirect
Value:  the full absolute
http:// address to the new thank you page.
If you don't set a redirect value- the form script will build
a "thank you,
here is what you submitted" page. If you want to use that
dynamic page-
upload the .css file that it uses.
2- If you have a field in the form to collect the visitor's
email address,
IF you name this field  in the form exactly  
 email   then the visitor's
email address will be the Reply To address in the outgoing
email.
There are 30 or so other optional form fields to control the
form- see the
readme in the docs folder. One of those optional control
fields is
verification.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/