ExtraPages

[wemseo]

Hello

 

I have extra pages installed (AWESOME contribution, thanks!) - however, when including a form and trying to send it I get an error;

The requested URL /memememe/post was not found on this server.

 

I am not sure about the "Action" input on the form here in OSC (usually on my website I call a script page that would send the form data)

 

Apart from the "Extra Page" that I set up, if this page includes a form, what do I need to do in addition so the form could be sent?

 

THANKS A LOT

[wemseo]

:mellow:

Looks like no one is setting up forms in extra pages ...?

 

 

 

Hello

 

I have extra pages installed (AWESOME contribution, thanks!) - however, when including a form and trying to send it I get an error;

The requested URL /memememe/post was not found on this server.

 

I am not sure about the "Action" input on the form here in OSC (usually on my website I call a script page that would send the form data)

 

Apart from the "Extra Page" that I set up, if this page includes a form, what do I need to do in addition so the form could be sent?

 

THANKS A LOT

[multimixer]

I'm not familiar with "extra pages" but can you post the code of such a site that includes the form?

Edited July 1, 2009 by multimixer

[wemseo]

Hello George

 

Thank you for your reply.

 

I just made up a quick sample page on ... http://wemseo.com/demoplain/extra_info_pages.php?pages_id=2

Please go to the very far bottom left "InformationS" box and click on "Contact Information". This will bring up the "Extra Page" created via FCK-editor within the EP contribution (add-on)

 

Thank you very much

 

Norbert

 

 

 

I'm not familiar with "extra pages" but can you post the code of such a site that includes the form?

[multimixer]

Hi Norbert.

 

Your form is a plain html form and has nothing to do with the "regular" forms used in osc.

 

If you look at contact_us.php, yu will see tat there are 2 places where the form is getting created:(1) the php part that ends with a tep mail function. This is the "real" action (2) the html part that the user see where the ENTRY_XY is "collected" to be used in the php part.

 

As far I can see the code of your form is

<form name="testform" action="send" method="post">
<p> test input email       <input type="text" name="email" value="your email here" /></p>
<p> test input name       <input type="text" name="name" value="your name here" />             title:  <select name="title">
<option value="MR">MR</option>
<option value="MRS">MRS</option>
<option value="MS">MS</option>
</select></p>
<p>                            <input type="button" name="send" value="Send" /></p>
</form></td>

 

There is no "action" specified, the form is doing nothing. You need a script that says what the form has to do

 

I suggest you to read following articles about doing forms in html: this one and that one

 

Thats the direction you have to work on

[wemseo]

Hi George

 

Thank you so much for your time and reply on this issue.

 

Ehmm... I know about forms in general, though I'd set up several of them (some quite extensive ones) on my main website ... please have a look here and go to "contact us" to see the forms.

 

The thing is. in OSC - I am totally lost.

 

I know the form you'd seen has no "ACTION", simply because I don;t know how to set it up. The form you see there was created by using the "EP - Extra Pages" add-on contribution and its inbuilt FCK-Editor.

 

What is confusing - for a start - is that at the beginning you'll be asked to choose either an "Internal" or "External" link. Well, I tried both. For the "internal" I have no idea where/what it will be linked with (there is no chance to choose neither... like an internal pages list) and for the "external" I tried to follow the form structure I have on my main website (keep in mind that this site is NOT OSC based.

 

Having done this, I get a fatal error saying that I would not be permitted to access this area on the server... hmmm??? No idea, why is that. the forms on my non-OSC website all work perfectly.

 

In OSC there is a contact_us.php for the normal (basic) contact us page. Thinking that EP would follow this principle I was proven wrong. EP doesn't (apparently) produce such files but rather store everything in a SQL db. Hence, there is nothing for me that I could change some coding on such a page as it simple doesn't exist.

 

I must say, I am a bit confused but get questioned (with reasons) from my client why he can create a form in this "Extra Pages" add-on but the form doesn;t work... And I am silent, because I simple can't find an answer...

 

I know this is quite a bit, but maybe we could get something doing about this as I am sure others may have the same problem?

 

Cheers

 

Norbert

[multimixer]

Well, as I said, I'm not familiar with fck editor or extra pages, but, I see 2 options here:

 

1) Go to the html code and make the changes, as described in the links above

2) Try to use the regular osc contact_us form, you can add as many fields as you like (read here) and I think there is also a conribution about adding radio buttons and whatever

[wemseo]

Hello

 

Thanks for your reply again. Guess option 2 is out of question as I want to create EXTRA forms - apart from the contact_us form. It's just a pity that the contribution "EP" doesn't allow for that.

 

Well, it does, as said the fck editor allows you to create a form, add text fields, radio buttons, check boxes, even drop down selection boxes, ... but what is this all worth if it doesn;t add the code to it that would actually "SEND" the form, too!?! And worse, there is no hint on how to do this manually in OSC.

 

So... is there a chance for me to take this "EDITOR" buttons off the FCK editor, because clients who use this FCK editor and cannot get the form to be sent - get upset about it! So it's better for me to not even have this option included in the FCK editor. It's a bit of a joke!

 

I really appreciate your assistance here very much, said so, even that you are not familiar with this. But maybe you can refer me to the creator of the FCK editor? I tried to make her/him out but no luck neither.

 

... :)

 

Have a great day and HEAPS OF THANKS to all your help on this issue

 

Norbert

 

 

 

Well, as I said, I'm not familiar with fck editor or extra pages, but, I see 2 options here:

 

1) Go to the html code and make the changes, as described in the links above

2) Try to use the regular osc contact_us form, you can add as many fields as you like (read here) and I think there is also a conribution about adding radio buttons and whatever

[multimixer]

Did you try to post here ?

 

Anyway, I think that after creating the "no action" form with FCK, you can go to the html code of the page and edit it as simple html and connect it to a script or action. Thats possible all the tme, doesn't matter how and where you made the form

 

You could also try "define content" contribution and use the tinymce editor, I have this installed and I think the support here is good. I'll try to make a form with this and tell you how it works

[wemseo]

Hello George

 

No, I didn't try to post at Spooks' FCK-Topic. However, reading through his first two comments I have to say that I looked into my html_output.php and there is absolutely NO SIGN OF "tep_draw_fckeditor".

 

The FCK editor was not installed by me so I have absolutely no idea neither on it. All I can say it works so far with creating just normal pages or editing the product descriptions, etc. So I am not sure if there is an installation error (because of the missing entry in the html_output.php or not)

 

But please, yes , let me know how you go about with your experiement... ;-)

 

Thanks a lot again, have a great day.

 

Norbert

 

 

 

Did you try to post here ?

 

Anyway, I think that after creating the "no action" form with FCK, you can go to the html code of the page and edit it as simple html and connect it to a script or action. Thats possible all the tme, doesn't matter how and where you made the form

 

You could also try "define content" contribution and use the tinymce editor, I have this installed and I think the support here is good. I'll try to make a form with this and tell you how it works