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How to Add Email Forms to Concrete5
Concrete5 is a powerful content management system that is quite easy to add email forms to. The steps for doing this are outlined below.
A demonstration form created using a Concrete5 web site can be seen here.
1. Create Your Form HTML
The first step in integrating an email form into your website is to build the actual HTML code for the form. The easiest and quickest way to create the form code is to use myContactForm.com.
myContactForm.com features a free online wizard that steps you through the entire form building process. myContactForm.com has just about any feature you could ask for including auto-responders, CAPTCHA, file attachements, CSS styling, data exports (Excel, CSV, Text, HTML, etc.), pre-made templates, and much more.
Click Here to read a tutorial on creating the form HTML using myContactForm.com.
2. Login to the Concrete5 Administration Area
a. Go to your Concrete5 web site and login to the administration panel.
3. Create a New Item and Embed the Form HTML
Below we are outlining the steps for adding an email form to a new page on your Concrete5 web site. Note that you could use a very similar process to add an email form to an already existing page.
a. Click the Add Page Icon
b. Select the Page Type and enter other details to create the page
c. Click the Add Page button
d. Click the page block where you would like to insert the form and select Add Block
e. Select HTML on the Add Block screen
f. Paste the form HTML into the Add your HTML below: text area (CTRL+V or Right Click and Select Paste). If you do not have your form code created and copied, please read this tutorial to learn how to do so.
g. Click the Add button
h. Click the Exit Edit Mode button
i. Click the Publish My Edits button that appears
NOTE: To add a form to an existing page the process is similar to the above:
1. Login to your Administration Panel
2. Navigate to the page where you would like to insert the form
3. Click the Edit Page icon
4. Click the block you would like to add the form to and select Edit
5. Click the Edit HTML Source button
6. Paste the form HTML into the HTMLSource Editor text area (CTRL+V or Right Click and Select Paste). If you do not have your form code created and copied, please read this tutorial to learn how to do so.
7. Click the Update button
8. Click the Update button in the Edit Content window
9. Click the Exit Edit Mode button
4. Test Your Form
Open a web browser and go to the web page containing your form. Fill out the form and press the submit button to test it.
A demonstration form created using a Concrete5 web site can be seen here.
Common Problems Encountered by Users:
I submit the form and get a form location error.
If you are using myContactForm.com, you will need to login and make sure that you've set the Form Location setting to the proper URL for your form.
a. Login to myContactForm.com
b. Click the Edit Button
c. Click the Basic Form Information Button
d. Enter all variations of the URL where the form will appear. Typically this is the full URL of your web form with and without the www subdomain. You can also use wildcards (*) in this setting. For examples using http://www.mydomain.com/* would allow the form to be placed on any page uploaded to mydomain.com.
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