FormIt: Redirects to Form Page

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Ben Morrison Reply #1, 13 years, 10 months ago

I'm currently on modx cloud and need to send emails via SMTP for the contact form. I want it to come from a gmail address. I'm using SMTP but I just can't seem to get it right. I always get redirected back to the contact form page with no displayed errors, no email sent and no submissions logged in FormSave. Here is the form I am using and my SMTP settings. If someone could let me know what I'm getting wrong I would really appreciate it.

SMTP Settings:
Mail Charset: UTF-8
Mail Encoding: 8bit
SMTP Authentication: Yes
SMTP Helo Message: [blank]
SMTP Hosts: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Keep-Alive: No
SMTP Port: 465
SMTP Connection Prefix: tls
SMTP Single To: No
SMTP Timeout: 10
SMTP User: [full gmail address to send emails from]
Use SMTPL: Yes

Form

[[!FormIt?
					&hooks=`recaptcha,spam,FormSave,email,redirect`
					&emailTpl=`contactEmailTpl`
					&emailTo=`[email protected]`
					&redirectTo=`82`
					&fsFormTopic=`Contact`
					&validate=`name:required,
						email:email:required,
						name:required,
						comments:required:stripTags
				]]
				
				[[!+fi.error_message:notempty=`<p>[[!+fi.error_message]]</p>`]]
				<form action="[[~[[*id]]]]" class="contact-form" id="contactform" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="nospam:blank" value="" />
					<p class="input-block">
						<label for="name">Your Name: <span class="required">*</span><i>(required)</i><span class="required">[[!+fi.error.name]]</required></label>
						
						<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
					</p>

					<p class="input-block">
						<label for="email">E-mail:  <span class="required">*</span><i>(required)</i><span class="required">[[!+fi.error.email]]</span></label>
						<input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
					</p>

					<p class="input-block">
						<label for="web">Website:<span class="required">[[!+fi.error.web]]</span></label>
						<input type="text" name="web" id="web" />
					</p>

					<p class="input-block">
						<label for="message">Message:  <span class="required">*</span><i>(required)</i><span class="required">[[!+fi.error.comments]]</span></label>
						<textarea name="comments" id="message"></textarea>	
					</p>			
					
					<p class="input-block">		
							[[!+formit.recaptcha_html]]
    						[[!+fi.error.recaptcha]]
					</p>	
						
					<p class="row">
						<button type="submit" class="button gray">Send</button>
					</p>
				</form>

Ben Morrison
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sottwell Reply #2, 13 years, 10 months ago

It looks like you're making the same mistake that I make almost every time when using the sample form from the rtfm! You need to have the closing ` after the last validate part:

&validate=`name:required,
  email:email:required,
  comments:required:stripTags`

As it says in the documentation, the most common reason for the form to not work is errors in the validation property.

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Ben Morrison Reply #3, 13 years, 10 months ago

Quote from: sottwell at Nov 26, 2012, 03:06 AM

It looks like you're making the same mistake that I make almost every time when using the sample form from the rtfm! You need to have the closing ` after the last validate part:
&validate=`name:required,
  email:email:required,
  comments:required:stripTags`
As it says in the documentation, the most common reason for the form to not work is errors in the validation property.

That did it, I will have to remember that in the future. Thanks!

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sottwell Reply #4, 13 years, 10 months ago

When I gave the "site in 90 minutes" presentation, I had that prominently marked in my notes!

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Ben Morrison Reply #5, 13 years, 10 months ago

Ok this is odd. After a few test submissions it stopped working, even though nothing at all was changed. I just get the following:

An error occurred while trying to send the email. SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Did google decide to not like me?

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sottwell Reply #6, 13 years, 10 months ago

When you set up the SMTP settings in the System Settings, what was the SMTP host? Try telnet in a terminal window to the same host and see what you get back.

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78775

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Ben Morrison Reply #7, 13 years, 10 months ago

I'm just going to disable the SMTP and use the php mail function. Thanks for all the help!

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sottwell Reply #8, 13 years, 10 months ago

By the way, I don't use SMTP from the Cloud, and mail is sent just fine from a Cloud installation. I created a new Cloud for the MODXpo demo, and sent a test post from a contact form, and it went right through - I couldn't figure out how to access my Gmail from the computer I was using - at least not quickly, anyway, as I don't read Dutch, Mark Hamstra having kindly let me use his MacBook Air so I didn't have to haul my machine around - but it was there waiting for me when I got home.

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Ben Morrison Reply #9, 13 years, 10 months ago

Yep works just fine. Thanks!

Ben Morrison
Hacking templates to pieces since 2003