Simple Contact form in Site Studio

I'm trying to build a simple Contact Us form in a Site Studio website. I've built the front end form using the FCK editor, but I'd like to be able to email the form data. Does IdocScript have built in functions to handle emailing form data? I don't want to store it on Content Server, or check any documents in, just email the data.
Right now I just have the form action pointing to PHP script I host outside the Content Server, but it seems like it would be cleaner if this could just submit back to the Content Server.
Thanks,
-Jason

If you want use something existing or out-of-the-box (OOTB), the "easiest" way would be to post to the SUBMIT_HTML_FORM idcservice. When the form is submitted, a copy of the form is checked into the content server, which you can then have subscriptions alert users via email.
Here is some help on getting forms to work via the SUBMIT_HTML_FORM idcservice if you don't know what I'm talking about. I wound up implementing this [almost] exact solution about 1.5 years before Kyle's post - just tooting my own horn here :) - but props to Kyle explaining it pretty well. There are many tweaks that can be made, but it works quite well on a fundamental level. You can see some of the "issues" I'm still running into by reading my (Andrew) comments, but you're using the same editor that Kyle did, so you shouldn't run into any of the issues I did.
I also went one step further by writing my own email (using javamail) idoc function and calling it anytime a new form was submitted. This is obviously something that is not OOTB and reserved for advanced discussion.
Good luck!
Edit: Stupid "insert a link" doesn't work. Use standard HTML tags to insert hyperlinks.

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There's no need for us to have data collected and analyzed. No need for yet another hosting service to store data we'll NEVER use.
I've already got a hosting service for my site. My clients already have hosting for their sites. None of us are willing to spend another
dime to have a second hosting system for anything. Don't care. Don't want it. LOVE the Muse forms and the ease with which I can
modify them to look the way I want them to, but that all adds up to jack squat if they don't work.
All we're looking for is a simple contact form that allows users to fill in a couple of form fields, add a little message and hit send.
My clients want to have at the most, about 5 different email addresses set up so they can keep the information organized a bit on their end.
They may get at most about 300-500 emails a month at a peak time of the year.
That's not too much to ask is it?
I mean, if I use the "Upload to FTP host" feature in Muse, what's so hard about adding a bit of code that uses that server space to pass along
a few messages to a mailbox?
Can't we just set up a BASIC contact form that is just creating an email and sending it to an email address with a preformatted message based
upon the form fields we add to the widget? Something like this:
Name: John Smith
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 555-555-5555
Message: You guys are a great little company, thanks for being so swell.
Dat be all we want yo! Hook us up mang!
For $15 dollars a month that I'm paying to use Muse, there oughta be something like that in the form widget panel! Dang!
Really have a bad taste in my mouth with this whole attempt to channel people into Business Catalyst... That might be great
for some of your customers, but odds are, not really... The majority of Muse users are likely to be designers that want to have
a bit more control over their clients image/brand, and want to have less painful ways of keeping up with the advancements in
webdesign/development without having to learn new code crap every few months!
So let's not be too greedy and accidentally paint some of your customers into a corner and try to get them to pay you more
money for services they don't need, and probably don't want.
I've recommended Muse to a few designer friends of mine, and their comments are all the same: Love Muse for the ease of
use in designing websites, hate the idea of Business Catalyst. "Feels like a ball and chain, but worse because I have to pay for it."
Yeah, time to rethink your plan a bit folks?
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I do agree and have posted a few times on this. It would be nice not to be tied down with another hosting subscription. It would be better if instead of having to pay for BC hosting with different plan pricing they could have different pricing for Muse with different feature options. I would pay more for Muse to use the form feature freely on any server I choose because like you said the form widget is great for making really custom forms, but that ease of use should come at a cost because it is so sought after.
I am getting sick of people wanting everything for free just because it is there and they want it so badly but think they shouldn't have to pay for it because it is not in their budget.
Muse should have different tiers with different feature options and not force BC on users. BC is a great solution for people without hosting or users that are not familiar with setting up their own servers but for the ones that do have their own servers and are comfortable with using them feel tied down.

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Hi Kurt,
What I ended up doing was creating the form in Muse then bringing the html page into Dreamweaver and removing the name field. It works but can be kind of a pain if you want to make changes to the design part in Muse because you have to go back into dreamweaver and remove the name field again every time you export. I'm glad to hear the next major release will no longer require a name field.
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