Huggins' Email Form Scriptis a free PHP script to process Web Forms. Many of the ideas and suggestions for this script come from the user community. This page presents some current ideas and requests feedback on those ideas.

Feedback

To provide feedback on any of these ideas or suggest others go to http://www.Myephemerae.com/suggested-improvements-to-huggins-email-form-script. 

File Upload

Add a feature to support file upload along with the textual data.

This would allow someone filling out a form to "attach" a file with it.

 Questions include: what should the limits (e.g. file size) be? Should all addressees get an email copy of the file? Or should the file be stored in one place? What safeguards should be in place?

Additional edits

State

ensure that a two character US state code entered is a valid state code.

(See zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_2_landing_state.htm for a badly formatted list of US state codes. For background see www.usps.com/postalhistory/_rtf/StateAbbrev.rtf)

Phone - US

Validate that a phone number is in the format of a valid US phone format. Accept these formats:

• 999-999-9999
• (999) 999-9999
• (999)999-9999
• 9999999999
• 999.999.9999
• 999/999-9999
• 999 999 9999

Regardless of the format entered, render the format to be one of the above, as chosen by the site.

ZIP+4 Code

Allow a Zip+4 code to be entered as:

• 99999-9999
• 999999999
• 99999

If a dash is included, render the format to be one of the first two, as chosen by the site.

Contingent Requiredness

Based on the value of one field, make other fields required. For example, if a box is checked for shipping require the shipping address to be completed.

More Pages About Huggins' Email Form Script

Huggins' Email Form Script: I created the Huggins' Email Form Scriptto provide an easy to use but highly flexible script to process email forms while protecting email addresses. It is free to use with extensive documentation. ««»»

Huggins' Email Form Script, Objectives: explains the motivations for and objectives of the script. ««»»

Huggins' Email Form Script, Samples: Shows some sites using the script. ««»»

Huggins' Email Form Script, Version 2 enhancements: enhancements which were developed for Version 2 of the script. ««»»

Huggins' Email Form ScriptTestimonials: Testimonials sent to me from script users. ««»»

Huggins' Email Form ScriptAcknowledgements: My acknowledgements to others for their assistance with development and deployment of the script. ««»»

example Form: This example form shows some (though clearly not all) of the features of the script. ««»»

More Pages About HEFS Bulletin

HEFS Bulletin: Bugs, Fixes and enhancements: I have set up the HEFS Bulletin to provide future notices of changes to the Huggins' Email Form Script. Please sign up for this ezine. This ezine will be used only to provide information on this script. And it is the only way I have to let you know of bugs, fixes and enhancements.  ««»»

History of Changes to HEFS Bulletin: Describes the history of HEFS Bulletin, with emphasis on the technical changes I've made since starting it, including moving to Gammadyne, adding double-opt-in and complying with CAN-SPAM.  ««»»

HEFS Bulletin Privacy Policy: The short version of my privacy policy for my HEFS Bulletin ezine. It explains that I do not spam. Period. And, I do not sell, lend or release your subscription information to anyone for any reason.  ««»»

Free Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader: Reading Adobe Acrobat PDF files requires the free Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader. Be sure you have the latest version ««»»

A Tutorial: Creating HTML Email Forms

The reference manual available for this script (see above) assumes that the user is familiar with the basics of Web Forms.

For those users looking for instruction in the creation of Web Forms, particularly Email Formssuch as those processed by Huggins' Email Form Script, there is an ebook tutorial: Creating HTML Email Forms.

The tutorial is available in two ways:

• It can be purchased for $10.00 from this page on my site:
  Creating HTML Email Forms
   
• It is offered free to students in Cricket's Tech Training Class as part of the support of the online class. For more information go here.

Last updated:
13:39, Sat, 12.May.2012