FormIt Not Working, No emails are sent

13 Posts

JohnPanz Reply #1, 13 years, 7 months ago

Hi,

I’ve been trying to get FormIt working for the past week or so. I have trawled the web looking for various guides, and using modx’s documentation as well and Modx’s Forums.

I’m running Modx Revolution 2.0.2 pl

Server Info

Linux 5.3.2

MySQL version 5.0.91-community
Apache version 2.2.15
PHP version 5.3.2

Browsers:

Firefox 3.6.8
Safari 5.0

I have checked that the mail() is switched on, I used a simple php mail function I found on the Modx forums. So I was able to receive mail from that function but no the FormIt function.

I currently have the code for the form sitting in my page template.

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JohnPanz Reply #2, 13 years, 7 months ago

Below is the code used in my template

[[!FormIt?
&hooks=`email`
&emailTpl=`FormEmail`
&emailSubject=`[[+subject]]`
&emailTo=`[email protected]`
&emailToName=`Creme Fresh`
&emailFrom=`[[+email]]`
&emailFromName=`[[+name]]`
&emailReplyTo=`[[+email]]`
&emailReplyToName=`[[+name]]`
&redirectTo=`10`
]]




<p>[[+fi.error.error_message]]</p>
<br />

<form class="form" action="[[~[[*id]]]]" method="post"> 
    <input name="nospam:blank" type="hidden" />

<label for="name"> 
     Name: <span class="error">[[+fi.error.name]]</span> 
</label> 
  <br /><input id="name" cols="45" name="name:required" type="text" value="[[+fi.name]]" /><br />

<label for="email"> 
     Email: <span class="error">[[+fi.error.email]]</span> 
</label> 
  <br /><input id="email" cols="45" name="email:email:required" type="text" value="[[+fi.email]]" /><br /> 

<label for="phone"> 
     Phone: <span class="error">[[+fi.error.phone]]</span> 
</label> 
  <br /><input id="phone" cols="45" name="phone:isNumber:required" type="text" value="[[+fi.phone]]" /><br /> 

<label for="subject"> 
    Subject: <span class="error">[[+fi.error.subject]]</span> 
</label> 
  <br /><input id="subject" cols="45" name="subject:required" type="text" value="[[+fi.subject]]" /><br />

<label for="text"> 
    Message: <span class="error">[[+fi.error.text]]</span> 
</label> 
    <br /><textarea id="text" cols="45" rows="7" name="text:required:stripTags">[[+fi.text]]</textarea> 
 <br class="clear" />
<!--[[!+formit.recaptcha_html]] 
[[+fi.error.recaptcha]]   -->
 <br class="clear" />

<div class="form-buttons"> 
    <button class="button" type="submit" value="Send" >Submit</button>
</div>
</form>

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loxy Reply #3, 13 years, 7 months ago

Try this...

<label for="emailX">
     Email: <span class="error">[[+fi.error.emailX]]</span> 
</label> 
  <br /><input id="emailX" cols="45" name="emailX:email:required" type="text" value="[[+fi.emailX]]" /><br />

Kersten

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JohnPanz Reply #4, 13 years, 7 months ago

Hi Kersten,

It didn’t work, so back to the drawing board. Does my hosting environment need any particular settings in order for Formit to work?

John

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loxy Reply #5, 13 years, 7 months ago

Hi John,

I had the same problem like you. After turning on and off some setting, it works. I don’t know why. I would have been surprised if my suggestion really works for you...but this was one of the setting I changed...

It seems that the whole FormIt is really buggy or parts of modx are so. After getting the mail sent, I have know problems with the redirection. It’s just a pity that no one of the developers give a hint...

Kersten

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BobRay Reply #6, 13 years, 7 months ago

If all you need is a simple contact form, you could try SPForm, which generally works right out of the box if mail() is turned on.

Otherwise, the best way to get FormIt to work is to follow this tutorial exactly:

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/FormIt.Example+1+-+Contact+Page

Then, once it’s working, modify it to meet your needs.

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dragona Reply #7, 13 years, 7 months ago

I have the same problem, no emails are sent.

I used the exact formit example by copying and pasting and was getting the following "An error occurred while trying to send the email" as mentioned here - http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,54494.0.html

When I cleared the carriage returns from the example today, no error occurs, and contact form is redirected to another page now, but still no email is sent.

I have tested the php mail function with the test code provided on another thread. Mail is sent without any problem

<?php
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "[email protected]";
$headers = "From: " .  $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
return "Attempted Mail Send.";
?>

Any hints what else could we check?

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BobRay Reply #8, 13 years, 7 months ago

I’m afraid I’m no help here because I always use the SMTP system settings and send through Gmail. You could try that.

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dragona Reply #9, 13 years, 7 months ago

Thanks BobRay.

Anyway I made the gmail work by clearing the carriage returns. But no lock with server mail function yet.

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BobRay Reply #10, 13 years, 7 months ago

Quote from: dragona at Oct 08, 2010, 05:31 AM

Thanks BobRay.

Anyway I made the gmail work by clearing the carriage returns. But no lock with server mail function yet.

Glad you got something working. That suggests that your code is all OK now, so you may be dealing with a bug in FormIt.

Hopefully, someone else with a server that has mail() enabled will check.

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