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Step 1

You have already accomplished step 1 by unzipping the files into a folder of your choice

Step 2

Edit file config_forms.asp to describe the mailing system on your server and where you want the emails to go when the form is completed.

 

The values to change are:

config_emailaddress="Youremail@you.com"

This is your email address


config_emailname="Your Name"

This is your name to receive emails

 

config_emaildriver="CDOSYS"
This is a server specific value and represents the interface between programs such as Advanced Form Handling and your mail server. The most common interface is CDOSYS


config_emailsystem="localhost"

or

config_emailsystem="mail.mysite.com"

This is a server specific value and represents the mail server. Only your web host can tell you the exact value.

 

The mail driver used to actually send mail. This is the name of an external interface that your web host will have installed so that ASP programs can communicate with the mail server. Valid values are: ASPMAIL, ASPEMAIL, CDONTS, CDOSYS, JMAIL, JMAL44, OCXMAIL. 
For example
config_emaildriver="ASPMAIL" Start your browser and type in the location of your form.
www.xxxxx.com/myform.htm or use the testform.htm that is supplied When you click the button on your form, the Advanced form Handler now takes over. Takes your form fields, formats them and emails the results.  

 

Step 3

Verify that everything works by clicking on the Test Form Link to the left. This will use your values in config_forms that you changed above and send you an email from the form.

Step 4

Try your own form. Edit your own form and change the ACTION Statement to be afhaction.asp. This replaces whatever is there now. 

<form name=testform method=Post action=afhaction.asp>

 

Now complete your form and the results are mailed to you.

Step 5

You have seen only 1% of what Advanced Form Handling can do. You now need to take a look at the User's Guide (see link on the left) to discover how to: Control look and feel of your pages, control the format of the emails, validate any form data, store the form information into a database, look at the many configuration options etc.