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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

You're reading from   ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook 80 recipes for building attractive and interactive Joomla! forms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849510622
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! Site Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Creating a Simple Form FREE CHAPTER 2. E-mailing Form Results 3. Styling your Form 4. Saving Form Data in the Database 5. Form Validation and Security 6. Showing your Form in your Site 7. Adding Features to your Form 8. Uploading Files from your Forms 9. Writing Form HTML 10. Creating Common Forms 11. Using Form Plug-ins 12. Adding Advanced Features

Replying to e-mails


Sending an e-mail to the site administrator is great, until he decides to reply. Then we have a problem. When you click Reply, the e-mail that opens is addressed to the site administrator (actually, we set it to info@example.com if you recall). So, he sends the e-mail to himself, and not to the person who submitted the form.

Yet their e-mail is right there in the e-mail text. Can't we put that in the From Email field? Then the reply will go just where we want it.

Well, yes we could put the e-mail in there (technically using a Dynamic From Email field). But then we find that the administrator no longer receives any e-mails at all!

This is most likely because the site ISP is checking for spammers and one of the checks that they run is to compare the site domain with the domain in the From Email header of the e-mail. If they don't match, the e-mail is marked as "likely spam" and dropped in the bin.

The answer is to use the Reply To Name and Reply To Email headers.

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