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Hi, i need a form with selects and check boxes to be sent by email.

September 15, 2010 3:58pm

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  • #1 / Sep 15, 2010 3:58pm

    rildrim

    25 posts

    Hi, i need a form with selects and check boxes to be sent by email.
    > Do you know any addon to do this, i’ve tried the Email core module but it
    > won’t allow me. Thanks.

  • #2 / Sep 15, 2010 4:03pm

    kellypacker

    138 posts

    Have you checkout out FreeForm? It has that functionality and works pretty good:

    http://www.solspace.com/software/detail/freeform/

  • #3 / Sep 18, 2010 10:51am

    rildrim

    25 posts

    I just did and it works great thanks. Now i need to know how to change the template that comes out when you send the form without having filled the required fields.

  • #4 / Sep 18, 2010 11:08am

    codeM

    51 posts

    Within freeform section in the cp you can create your own template. Once it’s done all u need to do is use the template= parameter in your freeform tag to specify which template to use to send the email. Check the freeform docs it’s well documented there.

  • #5 / Sep 18, 2010 11:58am

    rildrim

    25 posts

    Thanks but i think that template is not the one i need. I talk about the error message you get when you try and send an incomplete form. Tell me if i’m wrong though please.

  • #6 / Sep 18, 2010 12:07pm

    codeM

    51 posts

    If it’s error handling your are looking for then no it’s not those templates. I usually do form validation before it’s submitted using jqueyr.validate.
    As for the error templates I believe you can change them from the following cp menu : design , Message pages, User messages

  • #7 / Sep 18, 2010 12:30pm

    kellypacker

    138 posts

    Yes, I highly recommend using this jQuery plugin:
    http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/

    It’s awesome. You can override that annoying specialty template page so all the validation happens on the form itself, except captcha. If captcha is left blank or wrong, you can’t easily do inline validation and it will throw the user to the specialty template.

  • #8 / Sep 20, 2010 9:15am

    rildrim

    25 posts

    Thank you guys. Very helpful

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