Email Settings

---

Form Properties

 

• Sender
• Recipient
• Subject
• Email Format
• Reply-To

 

The php script will send the form input to the specified "Recipient" (Email Address) after the user hits "Submit" on the final form page.
Arclab Web Form Builder will generate an email out of the submitted form content. The email can be in text, HTML or XML format.

Important: If you are testing the form on your local server or local machine, e.g. using XAMPP, then you might always get the error page and NO mail will be sent, because php Mail is not enabled, configured or blocked. Please upload the form to your webserver and run it there.

Important: Some hosted web servers require that you define a default sender email address in the web server configuration before you can use any php-formmailer. You need to define the default sender in the web server configuration - not inside the program or the php-form! The php-script should work fine after you have defined a default sender. Please also take a look at the help pages and FAQ of your web hosting service.

 

Click on "Form Properties" and select "Email Settings":

 

---

 

Sender:

You don't need to care about the sender in most situations, because the program will automatically use the email address input as sender.

 

The following rules will be used to determine the input field, which should be used as sender:

 

• If you have defined a variable with the name [Email], then the form input [Email] will be used as sender.
  [Email] has the highest priority
  
  
• If [Email] was not found, then the program will search for an email input field in your form and will use it instead.
  
  
• If no email input field was defined in the form, then the "Recipient" will be used as sender.
  
  
• Add _NOSENDER to the variable name if the email field should NOT be used as sender, e.g. [Email_NOSENDER] .

 

Samples:

 

You have defined an email address input with the name [Email_Address] ... [Email_Address] will be used as sender

 

You have defined 2 email address input fields: [Email] and [BackupEmail] ... [Email] will be used as sender,
because [Email] has a higher priority than [BackupEmail]

 

You have defined 2 email address input fields: [Email1] and [Email2] ... you should avoid this(!),
 because both field have the same priority! Use [Email] and [Email2] instead!

 

You have defined an email input field, but the sender should not be used ... use [Email_NOSENDER], so that the recipient will be used as sender

 

---

 

Recipient:

Enter the recipient(s) of the form data. Use comma "," for multiple recipients,

Samples:

you@yourdomain.tld
you@yourdomain.tld,other@youdomain.tld

 

---

 

Subject:

Enter the subject of the message. Use [Varname] to include form values.

Samples:

Contact Form
Message from [Name]
Order [Date] [Last_Name], [First_Name]  ([Company])

 

---

 

Email Format:

Format of the email message. The form and email is in utf-8 format to avoid any charset related problems.
The program uses  base64 encoding by default, but you can also switch to 8bit encoding if you have problems using base64 encoding.
Base64 encoding is supported by all major mailclients!

 

TEXT:

The form input will not be converted!
Variable Name=Value

"TEXT" uses the "Variable Name" and "HTML" uses the "Label"!

 

HTML:

Certain characters have special significance in HTML and will be converted into their html entities! e.g. < becomes &lt;

 

Label:	Value
Last Name:	Doe
First Name:	John
Email:	someone@somedomain.tld

You can customize the HTML Email Format in the "Form Properties -> Style and Layout -> HTML Email Format":

 

 

XML:

Certain characters have special significance in HTML/XML and will be converted into their html entities! e.g. < becomes &lt;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<arclabwebformbuilder>
<Last_Name>Doe</Last_Name>
<First_Name>John</First_Name>
<Email>someone@somedomain.tld</Email>
</arclabwebformbuilder>

 

---

 

Reply-To:

Optional Reply-To Email Address. Enter a single email address or input variable only! If the recipient of the mail hits "reply" in the mail client, then the message will be sent (replied) to the "Reply-To" address and NOT to the sender of the email.

Use [Varname] to include a form value.

Important: If you have defined a variable with the name [Email], then the form input [Email] will already be used as sender (From:), so its NOT required to define a custom reply-to with [Email]. See: Sender

Samples:

[Emailaddress] -> username@userdomain.tld
alwaysthesame@yourdomain.tld