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PXS Mail Form – WP Plugin

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— by Phrixus

Current Version 2.6

How long till V3.0? I am getting very close to finishing off the very new and very cool rewrite of the contact form. It is sleeker, safer and more customizable that the current version… help keep me motivated by showing your appreciation…..

The current download is a new version that has some neat new features and better compatibility. It has a CC Sender option and no longer requires a seperate admin options file. If you have any previous versions, please delete the options-pxsmail.php file from the wp-admin directory. There is also a different code for the page where you want the form inserted so that it should now be compatible with the RTE editor in WP 2+. The Charset used is now pulled from the blog settings so I hope this helps where people have had issues!As always, please let me know if there are any problems!

Overview

PXS Mail Form was originally based on the contact form layout by Ryan Duff. I have expanded on his plugin by including various checks on the entered data and including an optional automatic redirect on successful transmission. The plugin will also check that the email address entered is in the correct format.
The latest update is eaier to use, allows you to deactivate the CSS injection from the options page.
Now cross references the quality of the content with a new referrer check. By ensuring that both the content is not dangerous and that a special md5 key matches information in the form, exploits should be harder to complete. In addition, if an exploit attempt is made, the script will quietly return to the homepage offering no feedback or warnings about this to the user. The plugin can send to multiple recipients and it will even create a drop-down menu if required to allow the user to select a recipient. See the instructions below.
I also suggest that it is only used on a page.
Latest features include the option to allow the sender to copy the message to themself, option to allow the user to add their own subject, completely new CSS and layout code for compatibility. Install and check the options page to see what you can do!

Requirements

PXS Mail Form has been built and tested on Wordpress 1.5.2 and 2.0RC3

Installation

1. Copy pxsmail.php into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Go to the plugin manager and activate ‘PXS Mail Form‘.
3. Go to Options > PXS-Mail and update your email address and any other options you wish to change. To disable the automatic redirect, leave the destination field empty.
4. Add {mailform} to the page where you want the form to be inserted.

Sending to only one address
Simply enter 1 email address on the options page .

Sending to a group with no select menu
Enter a list of email addresses on the options page seperated by commas email@domain.com,email@domain2.com,email@domainx.com

Sending to a group with a select menu
You need to enter a list of email addresses on the options page, but you also need to specify the value that will be displayed in the menu and the subject that will be sent with the email. Use the following syntax email@domain.com,Person 1,Subject 1;email@domain2.com,Person 2,Subject 2 . The menu will be automatically displayed as the first field of the mail form. Note that each group is seperated by a ‘;’ and the variables are seperated by a ‘,’.

Sending to a group with a select menu and the option to send to all
Use the same system as above but create the last entry with ‘all’ as the email address as in this example email@domain.com,Person 1,Subject 1;email@domain2.com,Person 2,Subject 2;all,To All,Subject to all . The Menu option and subject are customisable as usual.

Update 12th September 2005:
I have finally updated the plugin and should fix a few issues that people were having.
There is now the option to turn off the CSS injection for those that would rather have the CSS in their own stylesheet. You can find the code used by the plugin at the end of the ‘pxsmail.php’ file. The option to turn this off is on the options page in your admin area.
As with the prior release, it should be placed on its own page or after the <!��more��> tag.

Update 13th September 2005:
Now cross references the quality of the content with a new referrer check.

By ensuring that both the content is not dangerous and that a special md5 key matches information in the form, exploits should be harder to complete. In addition, if an exploit attempt is made, the script will quietly return to the homepage offering no feedback or warnings about this to the user.

The new update should ensure that it is much more secure against spammers trying to exploit the script. If anyone receives any evidence that it has been compromised, please let me know and I will try to secure it again.

Update 14th September 2005:
Now works with the Markdown plugin.

Update 21st September 2005:
This major update adds a new feature as requested in the comments. The plugin can now send to multiple recipients and it will even create a drop-down menu if required to allow the user to select a recipient.For instructions on using these features, see the instructions above.

Update 21st December 2005: V2.5
The plugin now only has one file, the options file is no longer required. The code to insert the form has changed to {mailform} and should be compatible with the WP 2 RTE editor. There is a new option to show a ‘CC Myself’ box on the form… should be obvious what this does!

Update 23rd December 2005: V2.6
More new features and (hopefully!) much better CSS compatibilty with different themes and browsers. This code has been completely rewritten so please let me know if/when you have any layout problems! Another new option has been added that allows the sender to enter their own subject. If allowed, a subject will be shown on the form. If this is left blank, the default subject will be used. When using the multi-mail feature, the entered subject will be appended to the subject defined in the multi-mail code.

Good luck and please contact me if you have any difficulties or leave a comment below to help out other users!

The previous list of comments has been archived due to the size of the page… they can still be viewed here.

Comments (486)

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486 Comments »

There’s something wrong with this latest release. I installed the plug in, and all the tags seem to be encoded as HTML entities, so they end up not rendering in the browser.

http://vmba.inik.net/talk-to-me/

Check out the above page. It’s just a wordpress page with the form embedded in it. I haven’t done anything else.

I’ve confirmed this bug when using Firefox as well as other browsers. Seems to be consistent with different WP themes as well.

Comment by Nik — 15/9/2005 @ 5:09 am
Hi Nik, Do you have any of the ‘Mark Down’ plugins running? Just for today, please disable them and I will look into this problem. Check back later for a solution….now to replicate the problem! Thanks for the info!

Comment by Phrixus — 15/9/2005 @ 7:53 am
All seems to be dandy here.
Will let you know in a day or two when I “don’t” get more silly mail.

Comment by GJD — 15/9/2005 @ 12:10 pm
Another update is coming along later this evening. V1.5 will be released which works with Markdown activated! Keep an eye on the current version note above if this is important. No other significant changes have been made.

Comment by Phrixus — 15/9/2005 @ 2:50 pm
i easily followed the config/load instructions here, but since i’m just starting with wordpress, i cant seem to create a page template that holds the contact form.

from the comments above, i tried to just copy the “post” source off this site, but thats not it, so…

what to do next?

Comment by tyelmene — 15/9/2005 @ 7:43 pm
V1.5 Release
Hi all, please get the latest version of the plugin if you need it to work with the ‘Markdown’ plugin. This should help Nik!

Tyelmene, ensure that you have written <mail form> on the page where you want the mail form produced. If you were running Markdown, the latest version will run out of the box!

Comment by Phrixus — 15/9/2005 @ 8:12 pm
Also Tyelmene, check out the codex on pages as it contains lots of info about creating them and using templates. The most basic way for you to get it working is to simply disable comments on the standard template but a custom style is preferable IMHO.

Comment by Phrixus — 15/9/2005 @ 8:16 pm
Disabling Markdown fixed the problem. I’d love to hear a solution when you find one, because I’d hate to have to choose between these plug-ins.

Comment by Nik — 17/9/2005 @ 12:22 am
Nik, V1.5 works with Markdown… download the latest version and try it out!

Comment by Phrixus — 17/9/2005 @ 2:56 pm
Whoops! Posted too soon. It does now work with Markdown installed! Yay! Great simple email form plug in, thanks!

Comment by Nik — 17/9/2005 @ 4:18 pm
Glad its working!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 17/9/2005 @ 4:45 pm
The form looks very clean on my site, but I really need some way for people to send me photos. I was hoping you could add attachments.

Comment by dan — 17/9/2005 @ 8:15 pm
If you get V1.6, the validation issue is now sorted… you need to enter <!-mail form-> to get the form on the page.

Dan, attachments could be added but I do not think that it would be a popular option. Have you looked into any file upload scripts? They may better suit your needs

Comment by Phrixus — 18/9/2005 @ 10:33 pm
Hi Phrixus, the V1.6 install isn’t working for me — my contact page is literally just printing out the <!-mail form-> straight on to my page. (From what I can see, WordPress is automatically saving the page with a space between the < and the !-)

Not sure if I’m doing something wrong. Is there a reason you’re not using HTML’s comment-out-code format?

Comment by damselfly — 18/9/2005 @ 11:59 pm
Well, I just downloaded it and put both *.php files inside the /wp-content/plugins/ folder and CHMODed them to 766.

1. The form does not appear on my contact page.
2. When I try to configure options, and hit “Save” it reverts to the first tab (page) under Options and says changes have been made; yet the changes have NOT been made. Apparently the changes don’t “stick.” Note that I have given permissions to the plugin for it to be edited.

Thanks.

Comment by Joni Mueller — 19/9/2005 @ 12:00 am
Hi, I am having the same problem as damselfly above.

I guess the code to be added will need to be changed
worked fine…

Have temporarily editted your plugin. Please release an update soon.

Thanks.

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 19/9/2005 @ 8:14 am
Damselfly, I took out one of the – because people were having problems with the instructions. I can see your point and will make a change to the code later today to make it a standard comment as you asked. Unfortunately cant do it at work… if you prefer, I could mail the new file to you… just send me a message from my contact form.

Joni, the options file needs to go in the wp-admin directory. Dont CHMOD the files… leave them as 644 as this is fine unless you think you might want to make changes.

Comment by Phrixus — 19/9/2005 @ 8:20 am
Hi Phyrixus,

Why not let the user enter the subject line as opposed to setting it from Options?

That way I can receive a more meaningful email.

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 19/9/2005 @ 8:44 am
Kontaktformular hinzugefügt

Erst wird es entfernt und nun wird es wieder hinzugefügt. Die Rede ist natürlich vom Kontaktformular. Manchmal geht es hier halt zu wie in einem Taubenschlag.
Ab heute gibt es probeweise wieder ein Kontaktformular bei uns. Es handelt sich …

Trackback by Web-Junkies — 19/9/2005 @ 7:44 pm
Hi Phrixus,

re the V1.6 install not working, I hacked the pxsmail.php file myself so it would return the form in place of a standard comment, and all seems to be happily working. (If there’s anything more than that one line that needs to be changed, let me know.) Thanks for the offer, though.

Comment by damselfly — 20/9/2005 @ 4:00 am
I did the same thing, changed the pxsmail.php to use standard commenting and it all seems to work fine now, bug fixes, validation and all.
Now my next problem (lol) – it’s ok it’s not a problem with the existing plug-in.. I was wondering if anyone had any idea where to start in creating a drop down (or similar) to select different destination addresses (webmaster, bookings etc) for a site I run for a local music club.. different people deal with different aspects of the club and I thought it’d be groovy if people could use the form to contact different “departments” – obviously I’d be willing to share this with everyone if and when I can get it working.

Comment by GJD — 20/9/2005 @ 6:59 am
You may have to try modifying PXS Mail or the WP-Contact Form to do as you please.

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 20/9/2005 @ 8:39 am
Ok all, I have updated the plugin and the above instructions to now (again!) use the standard html comment code. People should also be able to cut and paste the code as I have discovered a new tag for displaying it correctly without Wordpress ‘helping’ me!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 20/9/2005 @ 3:20 pm
Reading GJD,s comment, I was wondering if this is a feature that many people would want implemented. If it is, I would be willing to include it in the next version. I could use it I am sure!!! Ideas are already mulling about implementation so let me know what you think!

Comment by Phrixus — 20/9/2005 @ 3:28 pm
Big enthusiastic vote for the “PXS-Multi-Mailer”!

Comment by GJD — 20/9/2005 @ 4:05 pm
Looks great and works great except for receiving the mails.

For some reason the form will send and I get the successfully sent message and redirected to another page just fine, however I don’t receive any of the emails. I have tried multiple email addresses from various domains and even web based accounts and still not getting anything.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance,

Chris

Comment by Chris — 21/9/2005 @ 8:29 am
Hi Chris, are you using any form of free hosting? If you read through the comment archive (link at the top of this page) you will see that a majority of people that had this problem, did so because of the webhost.

Comment by Phrixus — 21/9/2005 @ 4:02 pm
Version 2.0 is the business.
I can say little else.
Thanks again.

Comment by GJD — 21/9/2005 @ 8:21 pm
Hi Phrixus,

This looks great, but after sending the form I get displayed on screen the following error: “WARNING: RunAsGid for MSP ignored, check group ids (egid=0, want=51)”. Do you have any idea, what I might be doing wrong?

Kind regards,
Edwin

Comment by edwin — 22/9/2005 @ 7:25 am
Hi Edwin, I have never seen that before and is nothing to do with the plugin directly. It is caused by permissions in the webservers implementation of sendmail. See this article for a few more details.

Comment by Phrixus — 22/9/2005 @ 8:37 am
Thanks Phrixus, I’ll look into that!

Comment by edwin — 22/9/2005 @ 9:04 am
I will be away for a week and wont be able to do much unless there is a good net connection. As far as new features go, I think I will look into the option of setting the subject if you want it to and also look into the attachments idea. Subject should be easy but lets see how I can complicate it for myself!! Please keep posting your ideas and bugs and I will try to keep it moving!!

Comment by Phrixus — 23/9/2005 @ 10:46 am
I have suggestion. How about allow the visitors to enter a subject as opposed to having a subject in the admin section?

Comment by Ajay — 25/9/2005 @ 4:48 am
The form displays fine, but when you click submit the page changes to the redirected page without displaying “Thanks, your email has been sent!”. Also the email never makes it to it’s destination. The site is hosted on Yahoo Small Business. Is this a common problem with Yahoo? Is there a fix for it?

Comment by Steve — 25/9/2005 @ 6:42 am
Hi Ajay, will definately look to add some new features to the subject section. I am thinking that something along the lines of the new recipient features could be implemented.

Steve, not sure what is happening as you have not provided any link to your site for me to take a look. Yahoo may not allow some of the PHP programs to be run.

Comment by Phrixus — 25/9/2005 @ 5:13 pm
Sorry about that.

http://www.steveanddawn.com/?page_id=11

Comment by Steve — 26/9/2005 @ 2:18 pm
Still having trouble. While PXSMail works fine with Markdown installed, activating PXSMail BREAKS Markdown. All my nicely formatted pages just go away.

Very disappointing.

Using Markdown 1.01 and PXS Mail 2.0.

Comment by Nik — 26/9/2005 @ 11:01 pm
Steve, what mods have you made to the script? Something is not working correctly and I suspect that one of the changes you have made is not sending the data accross. The plugin needs to submit to itself and the keys must match. The fact it is not showing a success message indicates that it has detected an exploit attempt and will just direct itself straight to the homepage.

Comment by Phrixus — 27/9/2005 @ 3:47 pm
Will look forward to the next version Phyrixus. Really hoping you get that subject active.
maybe next step can be attachments.

Am I asking too much

Comment by Ajay — 27/9/2005 @ 4:53 pm
Hi Phrixus,
Great plugin and working fine.
I do have a question, I don’t use neither textile nor markdown and I still have wordpress modifying my layout of the form (it adds p tags and br at few places) How can I stop it so I can maintain my formatting?

Regards,
Natasha

Comment by natasha — 2/10/2005 @ 3:21 pm
Hi Natasha, the plugin itself does not add those tags, check that you do not have any carriage returns or new lines in the write dialogue. It is WP insering them in somehow.

Comment by Phrixus — 3/10/2005 @ 10:57 pm
Hi Phrixus .

Just wanted to say thx for the amazing plug-in. Thanks to you something that�s normally somewhat difficult to set up is now made not just easy, but extremely easy. Once my site is up and running at 100% (doing a major redesign at the moment) I will be sure to put up a link to this plug-in. Any preference on that or will the URL to this page be sufficient? Again, many thanks and keep up the good work.

Regards, John

Comment by John — 5/10/2005 @ 7:27 pm
Hi John, Thank-you for the note… it is much appreciated. A link to this page would be great!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 5/10/2005 @ 9:43 pm
Hi Phrixus,

I am having the same/similar problem as Steve. I am on Yahoo Small Busines. I just installed 2.0 and have made no mods to it. The only messages that get through are those in which I specify my own email address. I had the same thing happen with wpcf. (The URI is http://sroka.com/index.php/contact)

If my mail log is any indication, then Yahoo will only mail if the “From” address is in my domain. The error messages all look like this:
2005 Oct 07 04:03:44 From address not in member domain. Message not sent.

Would it be possible to do all the validation checks on the address entered on the form and then send the message using a hard coded or configurable address from my domain? Do you know how I could do this? I am not a PHP programmer, but I have enough programming and server experience to hack with some guidance.

Thanks for your help!

Scot

Comment by Scot — 7/10/2005 @ 4:24 am
Hi Phrixus,

I did a small hack and it worked. I changed the folling line:

$headers = “From: $name \n”;

to

$headers = “From: $name \n”;

I also changed the full message variable to include the email address off the form as such:

$fullmsg = “$name from $email wrote:\n”;

This works for me but is by far not the best solution. It would not work if I wanted contact email to go to some other account not in my domain. May I request another variable that is set in the PXS Mail options? Something like a “send as” option? Then the code can set $email to either the sender’s email address off the form (if the option is blank) or to the address specified in the options.

Thanks for all you work on the plugin. It looks and works great. Now if only some ISPs didn’t get in the way….

Regards,
Scot

Comment by Scot — 7/10/2005 @ 1:53 pm
Hmmmm… The header variable did not show up correctly when I submitted. Anyway, I changed $email to $recipient in the “From” header line.

Good day!
Scot

Comment by Scot — 7/10/2005 @ 2:00 pm
Hi Scot, good work with the hacks! I am working on a big change at the moment and will definately try and get that implemented if it will help in the future. Let me see what I can do!

Comment by Phrixus — 7/10/2005 @ 2:04 pm
if i want a contact form on all pages, do you think there’s a chance it would be possible to make the redirect dynamically return back to the page i am at when i send the message?

looks like a great plugin alternative to the simple contact form!

Comment by heather — 12/10/2005 @ 6:03 pm
Hi Heather, this should be possible… how is your PHP? If you feel confident enough to hack… you need to modify the $success_redirect variable. Although I haven’t got the chance to test it, I would guess that you need to use code that will echo the current URL. If you need some more help, please let me know.

Comment by Phrixus — 13/10/2005 @ 8:13 am
Seem to be having problems with your site this morning, so sorry if you have already received this (will keep it short this time)….

I just wanted to say thank you for a great plugin – I am new to wordpress but I am loving the support amongst the community and the quality of plug ins like yours, so thank you very much.

My actual question was regarding the redirect page. Is it possible to go straight to the page you specify rather than going via the confirmation message? I have tried setting the redirect time at 0 seconds, but it doesn’t look good.

The reason I want to do this is that I want to put some tracking code (adwords and overture) on the ‘thank you’ page and would like to go straight to that page once the form is submitted.

Many thanks,
Joe

Comment by Joe Friedlein — 13/10/2005 @ 11:08 am
Joe, the confirmation page actually processes the form. The plugin submits to itself and detects if the form has been submitted. The plugin does not load any page other than itself and will output the relevant content such as the form, error message or success message depending on what has happened.

Comment by Phrixus — 13/10/2005 @ 8:24 pm
Hi!

About the PSX plugin, I have a web server with UTF8 encoding and norwegian characters in my language (��) and these get garbeled on mail sending because of the ISO character set. I changed line 116 in pxsmail.php for UTF support like this:

$headers .= ‘Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”UTF-8″\n’; // sets the mime type

This solved the problem for me

Dont know if this should be a configurable option, maybe autodetect on charset?? Anywho.. this works for UTF systems :/

Comment by Stian B. Barmen — 14/10/2005 @ 7:50 am
Hi Phrixus,

I had thought as much. I have put in a ‘processing…’ confirmation message which looks OK, but thanks for getting back to me – much appreciated.

Comment by Joe Friedlein — 14/10/2005 @ 8:54 am
Hi Stian, Good idea, will consider that for the next version.

Joe, it may be possible to use a different method of forwarding in the code. Perhaps send a new ‘real’ header rather than a meta refresh?

Comment by Phrixus — 14/10/2005 @ 5:00 pm
what is this:

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/never/public_html/index.php:4) in /home/never/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 2

what shuold i do with that?

Comment by Grace — 15/10/2005 @ 1:24 am
Hi Grace, its hard to say without even a link to your site! Please provide some more details and I will be happy to take a look for you.

Does it appear all of the time? Only on the form? When reporting an error? or only when sending an email? What other plugins are you running?

Comment by Phrixus — 15/10/2005 @ 11:46 am
I am using WPMU, and i cannot get the plugin to show in the Options Section. I activated it in the plugin panel, but it does not show up in the Options Panel. Other Plugins have shown.

Any ideas?

btw nice work!

Comment by mydietblogger — 15/10/2005 @ 2:18 pm
Hi mydietblogger, do you mean that the PXSmail options are not being shown? What is WPMU?

Comment by Phrixus — 15/10/2005 @ 6:10 pm
loaded it up .. but the options in the options panel for px won’t stick.. seems strange.

wp 1.5.1.3

Comment by p — 18/10/2005 @ 4:34 pm
i’m sorry.. I reread my comment.. and i went “what?” .. so i suppose everyone else will as well.

it is like this:
i go into options .. then i click pxs mail .. (it actually spawns a double window below the regular dashboard bars!?) .. i change what it is i want to change.. click .. “update options” .. and it sends me to the general options page .. adn when i go back to pxs mail , none of the changes have taken.

i went quickly into the options-pxsmail.php .. but didn’t see easily where i could shortwire it.

regardless it came up and i tried a test, which it sent to the default address (not the one i wanted it to change to)

any help would be appreciated.. the plugin really seems promising.

Comment by p — 18/10/2005 @ 5:23 pm
Hi P, Just to check… the options-pxsmail.php file has been placed in the wp-admin directory? I have this running on both 1.5 and 1.5.2 and it is fine on those so it cant be the middle version you are running (can it?!?!?). Does the form itself work ok?

Comment by Phrixus — 18/10/2005 @ 6:52 pm
you maybe have heard this before.. but .. i actually didn’t get it into the admin .. i meant to put it htere.. i could have sworn i put it there.. i guess i just relied on telepathics :S

nonetheless, everything is running great now!

i noticed i had the same problem as you had.. the text doesn’t seem to align to the forms.. i fixed it by doing this
.contactleft { width: 25%; text-align: right; clear: both; float: left; display: inline; padding: 0px 0; margin: 6px 0; }
.contactright { width: 70%; float: right; display: inline; padding: 0px 0; margin: 3px 0; }
but there are many ways to skin a cat!

anyhow, i figure one good deed deserves another!? yours far out weighs mine, but thanks for your help and a groovy plugin!

Comment by p — 18/10/2005 @ 9:19 pm
Thanks P, the CSS can be a killer… all sites use different techniques aswell so tweaking is always necessary!!! I will try your code on another site which I am having difficulties with!!

Comment by Phrixus — 18/10/2005 @ 10:49 pm
When someone use the mail form, I get two identical emails.
And, I had to comment out the four lines starting with
if ($_POST['pxscheck'] !== $_SESSION["pxscheck"]) {
to get the script to work at all.

But thanks anyway!

Comment by Haakon — 19/10/2005 @ 7:49 pm
Haakon, your site now no longer has referrer checking! At least it is working though!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 19/10/2005 @ 10:20 pm
Nice plugin… greatly appreciated. On the subject of subjects: maybe have a Subject select, on the options form enter the allowed subjects, one per line in a textare, then the site visitor is presented the choices?

Comment by Courts Carter — 21/10/2005 @ 12:30 am
Hi Courts Carter, I was thinking of implementing a system along the lines of the current recipient selection. Good idea with the text area.

Comment by Phrixus — 21/10/2005 @ 5:35 pm
Just wanted to send a very big thanks for the pxs plugin. Glad to see excellent develop along the wordpress community. Makes me glad to have switched over from the other options.

Well done!

Feature requests:
would love to see the option to cc an emailer to the sender.

I hope all is well with all.

Comment by jzkpr — 28/10/2005 @ 1:02 pm
Maybe this has been said before but I feel it need saying again. Why would you make us place the options file in the admin directory? This breaks the idea of placing all modifications/content in the wp-content directory. There is a better way of adding submenus to the admin interface. Check out the codex.

S.

Comment by Simon — 2/11/2005 @ 6:48 am
Hi Simon,
Thats legacy code from when there wasn’t a better way (that I knew of!!). As I have a full time job etc… I’ve just have not got around to changing it yet. It is on the cards though for a future release so keep checking back!

Comment by Phrixus — 2/11/2005 @ 8:58 am
Does the plugin work with WP 1.6?

I installed in on the latest version of 1.6, but though the plugin displays correctly the tab in options doesn’t appear…

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 12/11/2005 @ 5:40 am
Hello there

for some reason I could not make the option page work. That means I see it but every change I make get’s ignored. I even set the php files to 755 CHMOD.

Any idea why this is not working? Didn’t work on two different sites with different hosts.

Comment by Tascha — 12/11/2005 @ 9:25 am
HI Ajay… dont know about 1.6 yet! I think I need to update the code for the options section but this is on the cards. At some point in the very near future, I will try to get a copy of WP1.6 and get it working.

Tascha, the php files do not store any information so please put the CHMOD values back to default. Have you definately got the options file in the wp-admin directory and the plugin file in the wp-content/plugins directory?

Comment by Phrixus — 12/11/2005 @ 6:55 pm
Any chance this might turn into an AJAX plugin? Maybe like the likes of http://www.dustindiaz.com/ ?

Comment by Kenny — 20/11/2005 @ 3:01 am
This plugin rocks.

Maybe be a bug in v2.0.
When I left the redirect blank it did not redrect..so that worked.

Redirect didn’t work right, when i put my website in it would add it to my website url when redirected. For example:
http://www.hbo.com/www.hbo.com

To get around this i just put in a foward slash “/” without the quoats.

Feature requests:
would love to see the option to cc an emailer to the sender.

My URL above is not right. It’s http://www.dustindiaz.com/ajax-contact-form/ this dude made a ajax coment form, but its not a WP plugin…a cool plugin like yours.

Keep up the good work. I was using WP Contact Form Before I stumbled upon this. Props to all!

Comment by Kenny — 20/11/2005 @ 4:25 am
I use it and thanks

Comment by Jauhari — 28/11/2005 @ 5:21 am
Hi Jauhari, You are very welcome!!

Comment by Phrixus — 28/11/2005 @ 6:44 pm
Hey!

I have got the following error after activating the plugin:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_option() in /path/to/my/instalation/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 269

I use WP 1.2.2 and PHP Version 4.3.11.

Looking forward for your reply!

Thank you!

Comment by Stefan Isarie — 29/11/2005 @ 6:46 am
Ooooops…. I have seen it: “PXS Mail Form has been built and tested on Wordpress 1.5.”. So please ignore my message.

Thanks!

Comment by Stefan Isarie — 29/11/2005 @ 6:47 am
Phrixus:

Wordpress is placing a space between the

Comment by Dave — 30/11/2005 @ 11:14 am
Thanks for the emails Dave, glad you got it sorted.

Comment by Phrixus — 30/11/2005 @ 2:49 pm
yes, the files are all in the right folders. Whenver I change something on the options page it doesn’t seem to process it. As soon as I click the options page again it is reset to the old settings.

Comment by Tascha — 4/12/2005 @ 1:37 pm
I tried using cyrillic characters in the mail form and I received the message to my mailbox as scribbles (not what I sent). Charset is utf-8. Is there any chance you could fix that bug?

Comment by woot — 4/12/2005 @ 7:17 pm
Can i, somehow call this plugin directly from my template?

Comment by Brian — 5/12/2005 @ 12:43 pm
Tascha, What version of WP are you running?

Woot, try altering the charset on line 116 to that which you require.

Brian, you can but it involves creating a new template and actually putting the code into it… not calling the plugin per se.

Comment by Phrixus — 5/12/2005 @ 8:10 pm
When I install and activate…I place and nothign shows! Can someone help? I can’t be this stupid.

Thanks!

Comment by cade — 6/12/2005 @ 9:38 pm
Cade, Have you typed the tag in by hand (Read instructions above) to get the contact form located properly? Have you checked to see if the options page is visible? What version of WP are you using?

Comment by Phrixus — 7/12/2005 @ 12:41 am
thanks for the advice Phrixus! it worked great.

I have another problem though. I know I’m gonna be bashed for using a crap browser now, but half of my visitors use IE so I don’t have any choice but to make the site work as well in IE as it does in Ff and Opera. The problem is witht he forms. the form labels (name, email, web site, message) are not at the same level as their respective input fields. have a look here: http://asu-direct.ru/about/contact/. see what I mean? is there any way to get around and fix this?

many thanks in advance

Comment by woot — 8/12/2005 @ 6:52 pm
Hi woot, glad we got the first issue solved!! Now on to the second!! I cant actually check at the moment as I am using an Apple mac (it looks fine!)… I can tell you though that I am currently working on a new version of the form that uses a much more browser friendly layout. There is also new features available so keep an eye open over then next week or two!! If you have any suggestions that might help, please post them quickly!

Comment by Phrixus — 9/12/2005 @ 12:22 am
The plugin already has the most needed features so the only important modification to me would be fixing the layout. As for additional features:

Auto select email encoding based on what’s set as the ‘Options > Reading > Encoding for pages and feeds’ setting would be nice.

Ability for visitors to specify a subject when sending emails. Then the ‘Subject’ setting could turn into the ‘Subject Prefix’ setting, something that will be added to all the message subjects so that an admin can better distinguish messages sent from the contact form. This can of course be settable, ie i’m sure some people will want everything to be left as it is now, whereas others (me) would like an ability for visitors to choose their own subject.

That’s about it. Else the plugins is near perfect. Kepp up the good work

Comment by woot — 10/12/2005 @ 12:01 am
i just tried installing this, and get the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/(path to site here)wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 178
no amount of reuploading will make a difference.

any clues?

Comment by kemie — 12/12/2005 @ 3:40 pm
Hi Kernie, what version of WP are you using and what is your webhost? Do you know if the servers support sessions?

Comment by Phrixus — 12/12/2005 @ 9:20 pm
Hey is there a way to add more options to the form? Right now you got 4 options.. The Email, Name, Web Site and a Message… I wanted more but didn’t know how to do that. Thanks.. your script really is excellent..

Comment by dave — 13/12/2005 @ 4:39 am
Finally my site is up and running – more or less anyway. And as I promised in a comment above I’ve put up a link to this page. Thanks again for PXS Mail. Keep up the good work!

Comment by John Andersson — 13/12/2005 @ 8:33 pm
Anyone have any idea how I can add extra fields – I *love* *love* *love* the current for but I would like to be able to add extra fields, rename the (2) files that come with the original and have a second (changed) copy on the server.

OK, my point? Im a performer, Id love a version of this form, as is, but with more fields so people can submit “quotes” directly to me from the website and so that I can receive them email.

I’d love to be able to add: “” and have a version of the contact form appear, but with the extra fields?

I know a little PHP, and even tho I only know a little I have been furiously hacking other scripts and working things out.

Could you point me in the right direction? Is it easy (like a cut’n'paste and change a few details) or hard?!

Cheers, Richard (From Australia!)

Comment by Richard Waters — 14/12/2005 @ 6:24 am
Thanks John, That is much appreciated!!!

Dave & Richard, extra form elements should be ok to ‘hack’ in. For adding new elements to the form, you will only need to modify the main plugin file and add the text fields as necessary. If you can follow php, you should be ok in the form area. Richard, if you copy the files, you have to make sure that you rename all of the functions and the description at the top of the file. An idea though.. why not keep just one option page so that all the settings are there but just create a new plugin file that perhaps uses [[mailType2]] as a call for example?? Then you would have an easier time managing it! Any form specific requirements could be hard coded into the plugin.

Comment by Phrixus — 14/12/2005 @ 7:10 pm
Hi Phrixus,

sorry for not having posted so long. Regarding v1.6, actually now 2.0.

I have an installation at http://demoblog.ajaydsouza.com/ which I am setting up to test plugins and themes, mainly for my own development.

You are welcome to join me there or guide me on anything I needa do to get your plugin to work.

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 15/12/2005 @ 3:23 am
Hi Ajay, thanks for the offer… I may take you up on that very soon as I am trying hard now to make sure tha the plugin is compatible with the new version of WP and also with all of the various server technologies available (SMTP nad Sendmail etc). When I have a 2.1 running… I will post you a beta if you are interested!!

Comment by Phrixus — 15/12/2005 @ 8:55 am
Is there anyone who has an actual modification to the plugin so I can have a couple extra fields? I don’t know php very well Hopefully in a future release you can make it easy to setup via the options page.

Thanks

Comment by Dave — 15/12/2005 @ 1:55 pm
Dave, use my contact form to send me details of what you need and I will see what I can do!

Comment by Phrixus — 15/12/2005 @ 5:23 pm
Hi Phrixus
in my case the plugin does’nt work.

i’ve install PXS v2.0 onto WP 2.0-RC3, activated and properly configurated.

After I create a contact page, and insert ( with RTE Editor ) the line “”.
The result is that print without show the form.
May U help me?
Thanks

Comment by Cisla — 20/12/2005 @ 9:22 pm
I have not tried it on WP2 yet… I am writing new functions and improving the compatibility so that it will work when the new version is released. I would highly suggest that you use the basic interface for entering the code as it is likely the editor will adjust the code into html or something.

Comment by Phrixus — 20/12/2005 @ 11:25 pm
Hi Phrixus
with WP 2.0RC3 works
but is necessary disable the RTE from User Profile only for insert the tag .
Many thanks

Comment by Cisla — 21/12/2005 @ 1:09 pm
One more question about encoding. After I changed it int he file to UTF-8 the body of the mail is now sent correctly. However, if the ‘Subject:’ setting or the ‘Your Name:’ field on the contact page have cyrillic characters, they are not sent right.

Any idea how to fix that?

Comment by woot — 21/12/2005 @ 7:58 pm
Hmm… will have to look into that woot! Will let you know what I find!

Comment by Phrixus — 21/12/2005 @ 8:07 pm
I sort-of get what you mean, change the pxsmail dot php file into a, say, pxsquote dot php file with the different form entries – I have gotten that far and can even have it appear in the plugin directory – but does it also mean I have to rename the functions?! And now that you have brought out a new version, will it be easier to do it all from within the one file?

Do you know of a tutorial somewhere, where someone shows how to “hack” someone elses plugin to come up with their own – Im learning, I really am!

Thanks!

PS – I just installed the new version and the CC is an excellent addition – so I might look at changing the new version for the quote form I was working on – back to the drawing board!

PPS – If I can get it going Ill send you a copy and u can have it!

Comment by Richard Waters — 22/12/2005 @ 1:38 am
Crazy idea I just had from looking at the new file – and I must say, ur code is so damn good, neat and documented even someone like me who doesnt know much about php can work it out (though I have programmed in the past with different languages!)! – if I renamed the parts of the functions that started with “pxs_” and changed descriptions and then added my own fields, I would have the stand alone plugin file that is a Quote Form… …or at least be close, am I right?

A yay or a nay in the right direction when you have a moment would be great!

Cheers, Richard

Comment by Richard Waters — 22/12/2005 @ 1:45 am
Sorry, can u help me get around this error please, if u know what it is:

—
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare validateemail() (previously declared in C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-content\plugins\online-quote.php:21) in C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-content\plugins\pxsmail.php on line 33
—

How do I either stop it from redeclaring it? Or do I have to change them both to something else? I have tried changing “validateemail” to another discriptive name but the error stays the same.

Whatever help you could give would be great, this is the last thing I have to have on my website (an online quote form) before I can send it live on the server!

Cheers, Richard

Comment by Richard Waters — 22/12/2005 @ 2:01 am
Hi Richard, unfortunately all of the functions need to be renamed in the script. I think the best way to do it is to do a ‘Replace All’ on the file. None of the functions can have the same name as another plugin. I can give you one hint though… use the new file for one of the forms and the options. Since the database data is the same, you could use the old modified form happily with it… this way you wont have issues with having 2 options pages (more errors!)… unfortunately you also wont have the CC option unless that is hacked in aswell!! If you would like any help with the mods, please let me know as I hopefully I should be able to modify it a little easier due to familiarity. As the contact form wont run on this site (Old WP!) please use the form here if you need to send me a message

As the code has grown, I have been wondering about its readability so I am pleased that you seem to be getting on ok with it. I will definately try to keep it up!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 22/12/2005 @ 11:15 am
Thanks Phrixus!

I’ve installed and started using the new pxs_mail and it looks good and works fine to me and one file for the plugin is ALWAYS easier than more. But thats just me!

So I have started looking at ur new version and Ill be taking the next few days to “read” it and see what I can do, I started renaming the functions and strings and stuff today, before I read ur post – but I get what u mean now… …make it all new but keep the structure and I should be good to go.

Thats a fantastic offer mate and Ill see what I can do before I even send it ur way, cos Im learning as I go… …I dont know how to program php, but Im learning.

Cheers, Richard

PS – Sorry mate, whats ur real name, just in case I want to send u an email from that site: R u Shane, Adrian or Davide?

Comment by Richard Waters — 22/12/2005 @ 1:38 pm
I must be a complete idiot! I have made my contact template page in WP, and installed and activated the pxs plugin. What do I add to the contact page template to call the plugin? I have tried everything and have had no luck. thanks

Comment by brett — 22/12/2005 @ 6:19 pm
Hi brett… it was an error above and my form was being displayed!!! You just add {mailform} to the page where you want the form to be displayed.

Richard, I’m Shane but I think my form should be working again now!! I just cant access the options page… till next week when WP 2 is released anyway!

Comment by Phrixus — 22/12/2005 @ 7:29 pm
The form layout bug has not been fixed in the new version. Here’s a screenshot of what your contact page looks like in IE

http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/2451/contact2va.png

Comment by woot — 22/12/2005 @ 8:23 pm
Hi woot, I am still working on that!! Probably within a day or 2… or 3…!!

Comment by Phrixus — 22/12/2005 @ 8:49 pm
Phirus do U think is possible use a second copy of plugin?
Explain : The first plugin manage a public contact form while the secon plugin , used in a page protected by password, is use as mailing list only for authors .

Comment by Cisla — 22/12/2005 @ 10:44 pm
Hi Cisla, yes this is possible. The complexity involved is dependant on whether or not you will need two different sets of options. Essentially, you need two different versions of the plugin. This will involve copying the file and then renaming all of the functions in one of them so that there are no errors with re-declared functions. Once you have done this and modified the insertion code aswell, it will be a completely seperate form with its own options available.

Comment by Phrixus — 22/12/2005 @ 11:14 pm
Great Phrixus
I’ll start to create a clone.
Tanx

Comment by Cisla — 22/12/2005 @ 11:42 pm
Hi woot, the css has been fixed! The plugin will be upgraded to 2.6 later today when I get home. Keep your eyes out for the upgrade!!

Comment by Phrixus — 23/12/2005 @ 9:32 am
Thanks Shane! I was about to give up lol but I finally got it. Great plugin!

Comment by brett — 23/12/2005 @ 1:32 pm
Phrixus? your contact page has not changed at all. Still looks the same in IE

Comment by woot — 23/12/2005 @ 7:41 pm
Woot, I have not put the new contact page on this site as the new plugin doesnt work with the older version of WP I am running… check this one

Comment by Phrixus — 23/12/2005 @ 8:19 pm
all I can say now is woot and thanks!

Comment by woot — 23/12/2005 @ 10:13 pm
up on a live site, forms and design work great. only problem remains is the different encoding of the ‘Subject’ and ‘Your Name’ field values. Looks like they are still sent in ISO-8859-1

Comment by woot — 23/12/2005 @ 10:29 pm
Woot, thats good news about the rest of it… I cannot figure out why those fields would use a different encoding though. Perhaps it is due to the browser or something!! I think some research may be needed on that so we can get it truly internationalized!!

Comment by Phrixus — 24/12/2005 @ 11:55 am
Ciao Phrixus check this in ver. 2.6
in the code on line 206 is missing a “‘” to close the

This I found in the code download $form = ‘
This should be $form = ”

Thanks
Cisla

Comment by Cisla — 27/12/2005 @ 12:50 am
Sorry for formatting
Should be ” $form = ” “

Comment by Cisla — 27/12/2005 @ 12:51 am
Hi Cisla, I am not sure that it is meant to be like that but perhaps the comment is being formatted strangely. There should not be any double quotes before the div. Can you explain further what you mean as it is entirely possible that I am missing something!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 27/12/2005 @ 11:46 pm
Hi Phrixus, the problem is that 2.6 version is not working on my WP2.0 ( stable release ). So I try to understand what’s wrong and if is in the PXS Mailform plugin, but i’m not a coder…I’m a tryer
Anyway the old release was working..not this.
Now that U too are running on WP2.0 have the same problem ?

note: how can I show in this comment some code lines, without the above formatting problem?

Tankx
Cisla

Comment by Cisla — 27/12/2005 @ 11:55 pm
Just noticed that if the name contains an apostrophe, as does mine it is automatically preceded with a backslash \

This used to not happen before.

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 28/12/2005 @ 5:16 am
Sorry for the double comment, just thought of something.

Can the subject line be made compulsory?
Also, is it possible to let the default text appear in the subject line instead of having it blank?

Maybe these two can be added as options in your next release.

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 28/12/2005 @ 5:21 am
I have an idea for fixing the backslash issue and will try to implement it today… that must be quite annoying!! Let me look into the subject field options. I like the idea of the default text appearing but will have a think about it being compulsory. Thanks again Ajay… your comments and discoveries are always welcome!!

Comment by Phrixus — 28/12/2005 @ 8:46 am
Enter {mailform} where you want the form. If you have problems, the dashes are minuses so try typing it in rather that using copy and paste.

With the change to curly-perens there are no more minuses to worry about

Comment by Michael Maggard — 29/12/2005 @ 12:00 am
Michael… very good point!! I have updated it so it should be a little more accurate now!

Comment by Phrixus — 29/12/2005 @ 12:17 am
I like the idea of the default text appearing but will have a think about it being compulsory. Thanks again Ajay� your comments and discoveries are always welcome!!

The compulsory can be an option that the user can set.

I have been using pxsmail for quite a while now and though i did think at times of tweaking it for my site, I realized sharing my thoughts made more sense and many others may also want the same features I seek.

Something like when I released Connections Reloaded.

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 29/12/2005 @ 7:41 am
Ok then Ajay, let me see what I can do! Optional would cover more bases. In my offline Beta, using the default subject works well so definately a good start!!

Comment by Phrixus — 29/12/2005 @ 9:16 am
Found two more things.

One is an error in closing tag for input for “ccme”.
It has a missing closing slash.

Another mistake is the link to your plugin page in the very start of the plugin file. It points to /projects/pxsmail

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 30/12/2005 @ 7:09 am
I’ve just downloaded and installed this great plugin, but on my contact page, the form is aligned wrong and not within the borders. I’ve tried hacking the php file as well as the css, but nothing seems to move it over. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks!

Scott

Comment by Scott — 30/12/2005 @ 7:13 am
And once again sorry for yet another double post. When I was checking validation, another point I noticed was just after the input tag of name="pxscheck" was a closing

this is what WP had added. I’ve turned off WPAUTOP for that page and the problem has been solved.

This hasn’t happened before so maybe you would like to take a look at it?

I think the error is because you have the dd tag as well, though I can’t be sure of this.

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 30/12/2005 @ 7:17 am
Scott, it does not look like the CSS is being used. You must either have the CSS injection option checked on the options page OR have copied the CSS from the plugin into your actual CSS file. I have checked your CSS and see that it has not been copied there. Put a check the CSS box on the options page and that should do it!

Comment by Phrixus — 30/12/2005 @ 8:49 am
Ajay, Thats about right… I spend my time implementing new options and end up breaking the old ones Thanks again… I’ll get those issues fixed ASAP!! I would just like to say that I really appreciate your help… again!! It’s unlikely I would have noticed those for a while!

Comment by Phrixus — 30/12/2005 @ 8:52 am
Hi!

I had it checked, but for some reason, it wasn’t registering. I copied it directly into my style.css and that fixed it! Thanks!

Scott

Comment by Scott — 30/12/2005 @ 5:08 pm
Thats good news Scott, it is possible that your theme does not have the wp_head() function call. In which case, the injection wont work.

Comment by Phrixus — 30/12/2005 @ 6:36 pm
Ajay, the current download solves all of the issues you mentioned… except possibly the WPAUTOP one as I cannot test it and would not know where to start!!
I looked into making the subject field ‘required’ but it was not necessary. If the field is left blank, it will use the default anyway. Instead, I will look into a subject options field so that the user can select a subject if required.

Comment by Phrixus — 30/12/2005 @ 6:43 pm
Excellent job on this, Phrixus! Two quick questions: (1) Is there a way to eliminate the margin at the top and bottom of the forms? (2) Is there a way to eliminate the line in between sections of the form?

Here’s how PXS Mail looks on my blog:
http://www.urbanstrata.com/?page_id=2

Thanks!

Comment by Urban Strata — 2/1/2006 @ 6:23 am
Urban Strata,

Your stylesheet has the following entry:

#main .body dt
{
border-bottom: solid 1px #D8D8D8;
padding-bottom: 1px;
}

If this is redundant, I suggest that you remove it and the form should look ok. If not, you will need to add the class to each of the tags in the plugin file. Let me know if you need to do this.
To remove some of the gap at the top if still needed, you can find the following entry on line 44 of the plugin file.

$div_error = ‘<p> </p>’;

You can remove the <p> </p>, leaving the ” marks which will move the form up on the page.

Comment by Phrixus — 2/1/2006 @ 1:51 pm
Hi dude

I installed the plugin works fine but although i add multiple address on under options. I don’t get the send to option in the contact page? could you help me out please?

Comment by Janantha — 3/1/2006 @ 2:06 pm
Hi Janantha,

Please use my contact form to send me a copy of what you are entering into the option field. I’ll let you know if there is a problem by checking it locally.

Comment by Phrixus — 3/1/2006 @ 3:11 pm
Wow – great plugin.
For some reason was having problems with Apache on localhost (using Wamp) but works perfect online.

A great addition would be a checkbox simlar to ‘cc yourself’ but instead gives mailers a chance to join your mailing list at the same time as contacting you. Maybe to work with the Mailing List plugin.

Thank you!

Comment by Shaun Morrison — 4/1/2006 @ 11:39 pm
Hi Shaun, thanks for the comment. Thats an interesting suggestion however I would have concerns over such things as compatability etc. If the maillist plugin changed, the PXS Mail form may stop working with it etc. Having said that, if a lot of people were using the other plugin, I’d be willing to give it a shot! Contacting the author might be a little difficult… they are not using my contact form!!

Comment by Phrixus — 4/1/2006 @ 11:47 pm
I happen to have exactly the same problem as woot above. My site it all done in cyrillic (charset is UTF-8), and yet when I send a message from site and use cyrillic characters in the name and the subject fields, they don’t show up in the right charset when I receive the email.

Any idea what might be causing this? Perhaps some people on wp-hackers mailing list have had similar issues and managed to fix them?

Comment by Firenze — 6/1/2006 @ 12:25 pm
Hey…
Trying to use the plugin on WIMP and WP 2.0. Displays fine, but when you fill out the form and submit, it just rolls back to the main page and never actually sends anything. I configured as installation stated. I am not getting any error messages at all. Any tips of troubleshooting or how to resolve this issue?

Comment by DA Williams — 6/1/2006 @ 10:00 pm
Firenze, so far my research has shown that is likely to be a browser/php/apache issue and there is not much I can do to help with taht I’m afraid. If possible I would like to get it working properly for you so please let me know if you find any relevant information.

DA Williams, which server runs with WIMP? If it is some strange fork of WAMP and uses the Apache server, I can confirm that the plugin does work with it. Do you know if the server has sendmail or another mail function specified? The plugin does not use SMTP although this is a new feature I am working on.

Comment by Phrixus — 6/1/2006 @ 11:50 pm
Is there a way to create two or three mail forms with diferent input fields in the same wordpress website using PXS Mail Form plugin?

Comment by Milano — 8/1/2006 @ 8:40 am
Thank it’s working great!!!
I am just wondering how to ad some fields to it?
Is there a tutorial for this somewhere?

Cheers!

Comment by FunkyMe — 16/1/2006 @ 11:02 am
hallo phrixus,
a fine plugin – gratulations.
i have tried to translate the headword in your form to german language.
it works, such as “your name” to “dein name”, “your website” to “deine webseite” and so on.
i have found the changing points in your pxmail.php.
but i dont found the “subject” point to translate to “titel”.
could you give me help?

with quedlinburgs greetings
jwqlb

Comment by jwqlb — 16/1/2006 @ 11:51 am
Maybe this would be a good time to make PXSMail localised with resource files rather than having the labels embedded in the HTML?

I’ve also got some other ideas which you may want to consider that would make this more flexible in the future.

Comment by GrinGod — 17/1/2006 @ 9:59 am
I am working on getting the label options put into the options page so that they could be easily modified. Gringod, Perhaps you should pop round sometime without the ‘you-know-whats’ there so we can have a proper discussion!!! I’m interested to hear your other ideas… could be cool for the next release!!

Comment by Phrixus — 17/1/2006 @ 11:24 am
jwqlb, try line 205!!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 17/1/2006 @ 11:48 am
thanks a lot for the plugin, appreciate it!

Comment by drew — 17/1/2006 @ 9:58 pm
[...] Danke f�r das passende Plugin PXS Mail Form von Phrixus. [...]

Pingback by CFK ONE » Blog Archive » Wir haben Kontakt — 23/1/2006 @ 2:10 pm
Great plugin but…I have noticed a problem that no-one else (seems) to have discussed. Enabling the plugin makes a global change to the site, it breaks the Back button in Firefox!

You see the default behaviour when you click back in Firefox is to reload the whole page. This is not always desirable and there is simple way to change it http://www.hopkins81.com/firefox-back-problems.txt. Unfortunately, after enabling this plugin, this no longer works!

You can see my point on this very site e.g. Right click the bottom gravatar image and select “View image”. Now click back and the whole page will reload taking you right back to the top.

I have tried switching off all the additional feature with the plugin like auto redirects but it makes no difference. The problem affects the whole site, not just a page where the plugin is called!

Comment by Dave — 24/1/2006 @ 7:28 pm
Hi Dave, I have been trying to figure out what you mean and I am fairly certain that my Back button is fine in Firefox!

I’m not sure that using the “view image” option is the correct way of testing this as I can say for sure that if I click on a link and then press back, the page does not reload and it returns to where it was. If you select view image, you are no longer retrieving headers as you go directly to the file… as such, the previous information and header cache will be lost. Try clicking this link then back… if you still get the same problem… it has to be browser related as mine is working fine!!

The plugin does not alter the headers of the site in any way at all. If you have any further information, let me know. Are you using the latest version of Firefox?

Comment by Phrixus — 25/1/2006 @ 10:24 am
I too can confirm the behaviour that Dave is talking about. If I click on any link towards the bottom of this site and then click the back button (to get back to this page) I am sent to the top of the page.

If I do the same on my own site or BoingBoing.net (neither of which have the PXSMail plugin) I get returned to the point at which I clicked the link.

If I do the same on other sites which have the PXSMail plugin installed I get the same behaviour as on this site.

I’m currently running a (stable) bleeding edge version of Firefox. This problem does not seem to occur in IE 6.0 or 7.0 beta.

I will continue to invesitage and see if I can find out what is happing.

Comment by GrinGod — 25/1/2006 @ 10:53 am
I can futher confirm Phrixus that click your feed link then clicking back takes me directly to the top of the page. I have tried it using Firefox 1.5(both normally and in safe mode) on Windows and Linux. I have actually tried it on about 4 completely different windows machines, one of them installing Firefox from fresh just to do this test. Tell us Phrixus, what platform and Firefox version are you using?

Comment by Dave — 25/1/2006 @ 1:00 pm
Dave/Gringod, This is even more confusing now!!! I have tried it with IE6(PC), FF 1.5(PC), Safari 2.0.3 (Mac) and FF 1.5 (Mac)… on each of these, I click a link, then the Back button and I end up at the same position of the page I was on previously and without any reload!

Comment by Phrixus — 25/1/2006 @ 6:51 pm
I can appreciate you not being able to replicate the problem so I have taken a screen video of some evidence on me demonstrating the problem on my site. I disable the plugin and the problem is gone!

Its not something ive ever done before, I just downloaded a video caption evaluation program. Sorry but its nearly 5MB big, hope it helps!
http://www.drivemastersplus.co.uk/pxsmail.avi

Comment by Dave — 25/1/2006 @ 10:17 pm
Now also tried from 2 locations… work and home! Will download your video file and take a look! Atm, I can only imagine it could be related to the session feature… will have a look aswell to see what I can find!!

Comment by Phrixus — 26/1/2006 @ 12:18 am
hey phrixus!

I had a chat with a tech guy from my hosting company and he said that the problem lies in the RFC’s. cyrillic characters are simply not supported in the from and subject fields. it is, however, possible to get them to display fine. in order to achieve that, he said, the script must utilize something called MIME encoding.

no idea what that is, but it’s supposed to help solve the problem that me and as I can see, Firenze, have.

Comment by woot — 28/1/2006 @ 1:32 pm
Hi woot,

I had looked at MIME encoding but not looked very hard. As I am integrating new ways of sending emails, I suppose this could be used aswell. Dont expect this large upgrade too soon but I’ll see what I can do!!

Comment by Phrixus — 30/1/2006 @ 9:28 am
Is it possible to have custom fields with this plugin

Comment by Janantha — 2/2/2006 @ 12:46 pm
Hi Janantha,
You can easily modify the existing fields but adding new ones may prove to be a lot of work depending on what exactly you require. It is possible though if you are comfortable with PHP, I have helped a couple of others that only needed minor (easy) changes.

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Pingback by Blogates Blog » Blog Archive » Contact Form Added — 3/2/2006 @ 8:51 am
Hy,
very nice plugin, work great.
I have translate your plugin for german users, all entrys in plugin.
I hope, you enjoy.

Link to PXS MAil in German: http://www.bueltge.de/wp-pxsmail-flexibles-kontaktformular-de-plugin/131/

With best regads.
Frank

Comment by Frank — 4/2/2006 @ 8:40 am
Please update this plugin to use Captcha images, every contact us form not secure without captcha images.
Spam injection always modify they’re code to crack contact us form.

Comment by wayan — 10/2/2006 @ 1:55 pm
Hi wayan,

I do not want to integrate captcha images into the plugin as I personally hate them!! What do others think?? Is this something you would like to see integrated??

Comment by Phrixus — 10/2/2006 @ 2:55 pm
Captcha images are a big no no in web development. Firstly they are a right royal pain in the arse, secondly they break all accessability rules.

They may work at stopping spam but that comes at a high cost.

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Pingback by A Luxury Travel Blog ★★★★★ » Contact forms added — 10/2/2006 @ 8:53 pm
Hi it’s me again.

Has been a while.

I seemed to have been running 2.6, but I guess you made an update without a version change?

I notice that by default the subject line is filled with the one I set in Options. While this is good I would prefer a blank subject line for the viewer and in case it is not filled, then I get the default. Basically transparent to the visitor.

Comment by Ajay D'Souza — 19/2/2006 @ 12:13 pm
Hi Ajay, I know exactly what you mean! That is how the form operated initially but there were requests for how you now see it!! Perhaps there should be an option in there for that?? I’ll see what I can do!!

Comment by Phrixus — 20/2/2006 @ 8:49 am
Phrixus—-

Have suffered an injection email breach using WP-Contact v1.1 (ie not knowing about the updated v1.4.3). Updated to v1.4.3 but still being on the receiving end of endless similar ad hoc remote POST attempts.

Now adopted PXS Mail Form v2.6 and concurrently using the Bad Behavior and SK2 plugins. BB is holding these injection email scripts… for the moment, but only on what I would say is a paltry excuse of a denial;~/ That they will work it out soon enough goes without saying.

None of my server’s (it’s my own local server right here) .htaccess code seems to bite. Have been attempting to just cut them dead with a simple REFERER check but the scripts just sail right through only to be caught (for now) by BB …and MySQL is filling up.

Is there something special that you might be able to ‘arrange’ for these scripts within PXS Mail Form;~|

—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 21/2/2006 @ 6:50 pm
Shane—-

To clarify… I’m not talking about (REFERER) stuff via proper or actual use of the form on our respective web sites. It’s the use by these scripts of the remote POST command directly on the server;~/

I’m not much of a programmer but I am given to understand that http_post (some hook within WordPress?) is what is happening. They don’t visit the site or wander about the pages, they just arrive out of the blue with a POST command on the server and *bang* another one (for the moment) is 403/412 error’d by BB.

My point of view is that they shouldn’t be allowed to get this far, it just isn’t wise. I believe what they are doing is a bit of intelligence gathering and that it is this that should be resisted firmly.

—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 21/2/2006 @ 7:54 pm
I am newbie to this. Can you tell me how to add {mailform} to the page where I want the form to be inserted. Is it just put {mailform} in the sidebar file for example? It did not work.

Comment by Jonathan — 22/2/2006 @ 1:33 pm
Robert, I agree, if there is anything we can do to put a brick wall up, it should be done. Some of the articles I have been reading lately are about stopping these injection attacks, unfortunately I have implemented eveything I have found so far. If you have any ideas or resources you would like to share, pass them my way and I will see what I can do!!

Jonathon… easy one this!!! Just add the code in the WP editor on the page you want to add it to! I suggest turning off the RTE for this part though.

Comment by Phrixus — 22/2/2006 @ 2:02 pm
I’m a novice using WP 2.1
installed then activated the add-in chcked the ‘options’
created a new page within my template (ocadia)
clicked on html control-button in the page edit toolbar then added this text on its own in a line: {mailform} within the html pop-up window
Saved the window then page.
Nothing shows on the page

What are the ’steps’ to get this on a specific page created using the orcadia template?

Comment by :: Wendy :: — 23/2/2006 @ 5:47 am
Wendy,

The point of the template page is to create a display option without any of the comments ets. The form can be displayed on any page or post though. Having activated the contact form, you simply, add the code you mentioned above into the ‘Page Content’ box in the WP admin interface. You should disable the RTE though as it will format the basic code into something you dont want!!

Comment by Phrixus — 23/2/2006 @ 8:37 am
I asked around and found out what RTE means. Given my novice status I’m not prepared to loose RTE ability (for my posts and comments and page formatting) to get an email form on my pages. SIGH.

Thanks for writting the plug-in,
I’ll keep an eye out for when it’s RTE compatible until then I’ll stick with writing my mail address directly on the web-page in a format that hopefully wont be recognised by ‘machines’ for spam reading the page…..

Comment by :: Wendy :: — 23/2/2006 @ 10:22 pm
Hi Wendy,

You don’t need to completely loose RTE functionality. It would be enough to switch it off, create your contact page and then switch it back on again.

Comment by GrinGod — 24/2/2006 @ 9:18 am
Shane—-

Ref:

This brick wall seems to do the business…
[/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/.htaccess]
# redirects remote attempts for the PXS Mail Form
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([^.]+)?foo.bah/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .*pxsmail.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* – [F,L]

Request For Enhancement (2)…
1) Optional auto update announcement (ie like Firefox and its extensions). If something like that had been in place I probably would NOT have suffered a site breach (injection emails) using Ryan’s WP-ContactForm v1.1 (the update 1.4.3 patches the loophole).
2) Optional strip of all copy/pasted in HTML stuff (ie down to PLAIN OLD TEXT) as my email reader (Fort� Agent) properly does not render incoming HTML.

Any ideas…
Would the use of SSL help?

—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 27/2/2006 @ 11:01 am
Hi Robert,

Thanks for the suggestions! Gringod and I have been working on the plugin to add a couple of new features and really get this security issue bolted down. The ideas are fairly concrete so the plugin should be quite solid against exploit attacks.

Due to some serious time constraints it is still likely to be a week or two before we can get it to you! Keep any eye out though as the new features will be good!!

Comment by Phrixus — 27/2/2006 @ 11:19 am
Problem?

When I download the file and expand it on my Mac, I get two files, each containing code. The only that one looks like a php file gives me errors when I upload and activate it.

???

Comment by Seth — 28/2/2006 @ 12:20 am
Hi Seth, I cant try this out for you till I get to my Mac later today but I have not had any problems using it before. For reference as of V2.6 the php file is 19,913 bytes if that helps. I will probably just email you the file though to save time!!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 28/2/2006 @ 9:26 am
Shane—-

Having the following as your first line seems to give errors under certain situations (ie hackers?)…

Comment by icpix — 28/2/2006 @ 10:32 am
Shane—-
My whole submission got truncated or stripped by something;~/ To recap: I’ve got a bunch of error logging lines that cite line 1 of your php file during a hacking wave. They also cite non-alphanumeric characters and so forth in the session id. I must’ve been a little pre-sentient yesterday when I filed a RFE that included stripping contact form submissions down to just plain old text! Progess…?
—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 28/2/2006 @ 12:10 pm
Shane—-
A few more Request For Enhancements (RFE):
3) optional timer ie been on-site a given interval?
4) optional footprint ie hit any other pages on-site?
5) optional anti-flood ie too many too quickly?
6) optional buffer overflow ie too long?
7) optional code strip ie

Comment by icpix — 28/2/2006 @ 12:18 pm
Shane—-
…looks like it already strips code;~)
—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 28/2/2006 @ 12:19 pm
Hi Robert,

Hows about instead of implementing each those features the PXSMail plugin simply strips out naughty headers (and possibly strips out HTML tages) and hands over identifying spam to Akismet, and leaves hacking/hammering up to your ISP/Host (as they should be dealing with it).

That way the plugin remains simple, as it should be – imho.

Comment by Adrian Ritchie — 28/2/2006 @ 1:13 pm
Adrian—-
mmmm… I hear you. In my book PXS Mail Form is a nice bit of straightforward plugin programming (that’s a compliment Shane!). Whereas Akismet… isn’t at all straightforward. I don’t have the appropriate API wherewithall to utilise the latter and, touch wood, things haven’t (yet?) degraded to the point where the use of Akismet becomes sadly necessary. Oh FWIW and BTW and I am my own ISP/Host as it were;~) It’s my server too – right here.
—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 28/2/2006 @ 3:46 pm
Great plugin Phrixus –

I am trying to add some check boxes to the form. I know the HTML code, but get a bit confused w/ what I need on the PHP side to send it.

Anyone know an easy way to get around?

Thanks!

Comment by Got Wisdom? — 5/3/2006 @ 10:28 pm
I tried to implement your script on one of my sites and received the following error:

Warning: session_destroy(): Trying to destroy uninitialized session

I googled a bit and found the following solution, maybe this helps another lost soul out there. I added an “@” before line no. 159:
@session_destroy();

It now works except that I receive two mails. Strange it doesn’t give me neither of the two problems on another site which is hosted on the same server. Maybe it does have something to do with the theme employed?

Comment by Stefan — 6/3/2006 @ 3:05 am
Stefan, I’m not sure of your exact problem but the solution you posted is not a solution at all. It is just hiding the problem.

Putting the @ symbol in front of a php statement simply prevents error messages being output. A better solution would be to try and figure out exactly why you are getting those error messages.

Comment by GrinGod — 6/3/2006 @ 9:19 am
Gringod, I am sorry not to have provided a solution, as you might have guessed I don’t have a clue regarding PHP. I don’t know the root of the problem, and it is strange that pxsmail is working fine on the same host on another theme. Since it is working (except that I get two mails), suppressing the error message already does it for me

Comment by Stefan — 7/3/2006 @ 1:21 am
Hello, Phrixus.

Your script seems to be breaking my PHP Markdown Extra 1.0.1 plugin (http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/). I’ve made no changes to either plugin or the WP core. Any thoughts as to what can be done to either plugin to fix this?

Just in case, by “breaking” I mean that my text is simply not formatted.

Thanks for this great plugin… I hope to be able to use it alongside Markdown Extra.

Comment by Serge Lafont — 15/3/2006 @ 12:21 am
A little update… I was able to “solve” this problem by commenting out the following line near the end of the plugin file:

remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘Markdown’, 6);

I say that it “solved” the problem only because PHP Markdown Extra is now correctly formatting my text. But, since I know **nothing** of PHP, I have no idea if that really is a solution or if I may have created some future problem. On the other hand, something weird came up. The last line of HTML code that makes up the contact form (<div style=”clear:both; height:1px;”> </div>) was formatted by Markdown Extra as if it wasn’t meant to be read by the browser as code. It enclosed that one line of code inside *pre* and *code* tags, like this:

<pre><code>
<div style=”clear:both; height:1px;”> </div>
</code></pre>

Why it did this to begin with, and furthermore, why it did this only to the last line of the contact form code is completely beyond me. But I found a workaround by simply moving that line of code to the end of the previous line, like this:

</div><div style=”clear:both; height:1px;”> </div>

Please let me know if any of this makes any sense, or if I may have inadvertently created some other problem I still haven’t encountered.

Comment by Serge Lafont — 15/3/2006 @ 1:13 am
Hi Serge… as you saw, the plugin wont work properly with Markdown.
If you have managed to modify in such a way that it is working with your install and it is working correctly… well done!! The code should be fine!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 15/3/2006 @ 9:33 am
I need to add new fields in the form for http://www.modellehostess.it

Comment by Matteo Raggi — 15/3/2006 @ 8:36 pm
Hi Phrixus,
Thanks for the nice plugin. I installed it and unfortunately I have some problems with the page outlook it is included. I can see the contact form but my sidebar is at the wrong place. Can you help me with that? (I’m not very familiar with PHP).

Comment by Anja — 15/3/2006 @ 9:47 pm
Hey Phrixus…sorry, I just had an idea what it could be and it works now! The get_sidebar function in my page.php file was at the wrong place. Sorry for the rash help request.

Comment by Anja — 15/3/2006 @ 9:57 pm
Phrixus/Gringod—-
Having some difficulty, not sure if it’s PXS or WP or my server;~/
Implemented your multi-address FAQ, it now does three flavours OK.
Have been unable to change some settings in the PXS options area,
update button returns ‘Updated’ etc but it doesn’t actually update!?
Have just now upg WP to 2.0.2 (just in case) but issue remains.
Personally I avoid cache, there are just TOO many ‘caches’;~|
Accordingly wp-config.php contains the specified patch…
define(‘DISABLE_CACHE’, true);
Any ideas?
—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 16/3/2006 @ 11:50 am
Robert… I have just upgraded to 2.0.2 so I will ahve a play tomorrow and you let you know what I find!!

Comment by Phrixus — 17/3/2006 @ 12:05 am
—-Thank you Shane. It was doing this in WP 2.0.1 but I upgraded to 2.0.2 just to be sure and also to effect the security fixes. Previously I’ve had trouble with the (new) WP2 cache. At that time it was falsely reporting the activation/deactivation of key plugins like Bad Behavior which, at a time of an actual injection breach, was not at all welcome;~| Hence the WP-supplied patch to stop its use of its own cache. Of course there’s still the browser cache (disk and RAM), the OS cache, the hard drive’s cache, the Pentium’s L1/L2 caches. Not forgetting the server’s httpd, squid, PHP caches. Then there’s the ISP stuff and any associated proxies. Maybe there’s a cache of cache of cache of cache somewhere or is that just deja-vu? Maybe I’m just in a GroundHogDay loop;~/ Why do even intelligent programmers reckon that the smoke-and-mirrors statistics trickery known as cache is of feasible overall benefit defeats me. What is so wrong about just plain doing things live in real time!? This particular issue ’seems’ to be with PXS or at least PXS is affected deeply by whatever. I became aware of it after attempting to install PXS multi-address delivery. I just could NOT get the Subject box emptied…!? Managed it eventually and then noticed that I now couldn’t adjust any part of the multi-address box. Also none(?) of the tick boxes were changeable despite the inappropriate ‘UpdatedOK’ response line. Other plugins seem Ok, as does various test prods at changing core WP stuff. Perms for PXS are the same as for other plugins. I’ve done some cosmetic changes to PXS to suit my sites but nothing in a deeply hacking way. I’ve added a web site link if that helps you. Sort Of Puzzling!?
—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 17/3/2006 @ 10:09 am
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Pingback by betweenGo » WordPress Contact E-Mail Form — 17/3/2006 @ 1:13 pm
Hi Robert… I have tried this now on a couple of installations with different browsers and I cant seem to replicate the problem.

I have a suggestion though… try the WP All options screen… yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options.php

You will find the pxs options and you should be able to edit them from there!!

Let me know how you get on as I am planning to try and get the new version out over the week-end so all information is useful!!

Comment by Phrixus — 17/3/2006 @ 2:59 pm
Shane—- Good idea. WP All Options works better. Alterations in that area are subsequently reflected on the next lookup of the normal PXS options area. However looking live on the site I find that the concatenated Subject clauses in the multi-addressing still do not ‘appear’ live. Also the long addressee doesn’t fully stretch the SendTo object to show the entire character string. BTW/FWIW I universally use Firefox (1.5.0.1). My ‘RSS’ isn’t picking your stuff up terribly effectively. If you need anything (more urgently) then use my forum email address, it’s already enumerated (ie whitelisted on the server).
—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 17/3/2006 @ 9:16 pm
Shane—- Oh, WP All Options is showing me stuff that I remember was in another flavour of contact plugin (Custom Contact Me/Us) which I had carefully uninstalled and deleted… so as to ensure that the spammers had no possibility of an undocumented POST mechanism. Now I see that MySQL still shows CCMU data;~| Using PHPmyadmin ~ wp-options ~ I’m now doing some judicious line deleting. —-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 17/3/2006 @ 9:33 pm
Shane—- WP All Options seems to have a maxima for the multi-addressee edit, I just ran out of characters with only three sets of addressee information. Not that I’ve got the various multi-addressee Subjects to work;~/ —-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 17/3/2006 @ 9:44 pm
Hi Robert, i will have a look at that last issue and see if there is a config option in the plugin API I can use to state a larger field size….

… another thing to do before the update!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 20/3/2006 @ 3:34 pm
Thank you for the wonderful plugin! It works wonderfully and is very easy to install and configure.

Comment by Laurence O. — 22/3/2006 @ 11:23 pm
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Pingback by Must-have Plugins for WordPress at Personal and Technology Blog — 29/3/2006 @ 2:00 pm
Hi – is it possible to make the name and mail fields optional? I’m using this for a form where users can submit anonymous information.

Comment by smijos — 30/3/2006 @ 9:56 pm
Thank you is a great plug in, I Used in my blog.

Comment by pato castro — 3/4/2006 @ 6:07 am
Hi smijos,

Yes you can make those fields optional by editing the plugin file directly.

Change line 76 from….

if(!(empty($_POST['your_name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['msg']) || empty($_POST['pxscheck'])) && $pxs_mail == 0) {

… to …

if(!(empty($_POST['msg']) || empty($_POST['pxscheck'])) && $pxs_mail == 0) {

You might also like to remove the “Required” statement from the form on lines 217 & 219.

Comment by Phrixus — 3/4/2006 @ 5:51 pm
Shane—-

Another thing to do before the update…;~/

Over the last few days I’ve noticed a slight tactical change in my (un)favourite shadowers. My logs show variations on a command line ploy…
POST /wordpress/contact-email/%7Cyour_name%7Cemail%7Cmsg%7CSubmit%7Cstage HTTP/1.1
POST /wordpress/contact-email/|your_name|email|msg|Submit|stage HTTP/1.1
…but I am unsure quite how your blog will render these lines.

If you are aware of this tactical variation I will leave you to work out how best to parry these chavs;~) If you would like me to turn on the Bad Behavior [sic] plugin to record the precise form of the exploit do let me know. Meanwhile I’ve merely amended my .htaccess files appropriately.

—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 4/4/2006 @ 7:09 pm
Robert… just as I nearly finalize all of the changes and last minute plans… you add something else to think about!! Some of these exploits are going to be difficult to catch in the plugin alone but I am considering a safe mode option which will not allow any submitted information at all to be sent outside of the email body. Worse case scenario would have garbage emails arriving… but at least no exploitation!!

Comment by Phrixus — 4/4/2006 @ 7:21 pm
Hello again -
I followed your suggestion (post #221) – but it is still requiring the name and email fields. I think all the other ‘if(!(empty’ statemtents are still holding.

I’d still appreciate help altering the plugin directly. I suppose my suggestion for updates would be options to directly edit the field titles and whether they’re required.

Otherwise everything works perfectly – thanks for your work!

Comment by smijos — 5/4/2006 @ 2:58 pm
Hi there,
I was wondering how I might call up the plugin from a PHP file? The {mailform} code doesn’t work in a PHP file. Is there a certain function that the plugin uses which I can call through PHP to get it to work as if I was using {mailform}? Thanks.

Comment by James Kahlin — 7/4/2006 @ 10:15 am
James, That can’t be done easily as the plugin relies on WP features to display and work. You could theoretically rewrite it to do what you need but it may be best to look for an alternate solution. Though what you want to do seems like a lot more work than including one piece of code in a page!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 7/4/2006 @ 11:18 pm
Just thought I would post to say this issue has been resolved. Thanks again Phrixus.

Comment by James Kahlin — 7/4/2006 @ 11:46 pm
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Pingback by Gary Day » Blog Archive » Low Maintenance — 12/4/2006 @ 8:55 am
I’m having a quarky problem with the message field. If I tab to each box I can enter text without a problem. But if I use my mouse to put the cursor in the message text area…the cursor jumps back to the name input box. This is happening in Firefox. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Comment by june — 12/4/2006 @ 1:31 pm
June, sorry to say that this is not a form problem. Perhaps you could upgrade FF to the latest version. You have not mentioned which version you are running but this would be a very good start.

Comment by Phrixus — 13/4/2006 @ 11:37 am
THANK YOU! This is the first contact form that I’ve found that actually worked like a champ on my site, with no hassle. I still have all of my hair! LOL!

Comment by Maevyn — 17/4/2006 @ 3:00 pm
I dropped this form on my site, with no changes. I was having two issues:

1) Was getting an session_destroy error – “Warning: session_destroy(): Trying to destroy uninitialized session”. Like Stefan above, I just added an “@” sign to mask the problem (line 156).

2) It is sending double emails (this might be related to point one). Didn’t seem to be doing double emails before I added the “@” sign.

Thanks, though. This is the closest I’ve seen to an out-of-the-box working contact form plugin for WP.

Comment by ryan — 26/4/2006 @ 3:24 pm
I’ve confirmed that by adding the “@” sign, the plugin will begin sending double emails. But when I remove the sign, I get the

“Warning: session_destroy(): Trying to destroy uninitialized session in /home/…”

error. I’m using WordPress 2.0.2 on a server running PHP 4.4.2.

Any ideas about the problem here with sessions? Thank you.

Comment by ryan — 26/4/2006 @ 3:41 pm
Ryan, I am currently travelling and cant really experiment. The session issue will be related to your server setup and the way PHP has been configured. You could try to remove all of the session security code but then the referal checking will be broken!

Comment by Phrixus — 27/4/2006 @ 2:58 pm
Thanks for the plugin. Works great.
I modified it to eliminate the message field and the website field. That would be a nice addition, to make those optional via the options page.

I could not get it to work in the sidebar though. I plan on using it as an optin form and currently that is in the side bar. I like all the security stuff, although I don’t understand it all that much.

Any tricks on getting it to work in the sidebar ?

Comment by Pablo Maiorino — 1/5/2006 @ 3:52 am
Hi Shane. I am diggin’ the plugin, but noticed that changes to PXS-Mail Options don’t stick when using inline CSS formatting.

ie. Please fill in the required fields.

Comment by Jeremy — 1/5/2006 @ 10:00 am
Same as Ryan:

1: Was also getting a session_destroy_error. Is there a trick with adding a @-sign? Didn’t find further information.

2: It was sending three (!) Emails to the webmaster and three Emails to the one, who has used the mailscript.

I would love to use this form, I like the simple use. Are there any solutions?

Comment by Joachim — 3/5/2006 @ 7:26 am
Pablo, Thanks for the comments… without some major mods the form cannot be used from the sidebar as it is called by ‘the loop’. To have it work in the sidebar would mean that it could not be called from the WP interface.

Jeremy, Thanks also but I do not understand what you mean by them not sticking. Could you provide a link please?

Joachim, As I cannot duplicate this issue, I have been looking at rewriting the referral check, I have some ideas on stopping the use of sessions but it is quite complex but should ultimately be better than the existing system…. keep an on the plugin page for a new release. Due to other comitments, the time I have available is limited at the moment but at some stage the new version will be released!

Comment by Phrixus — 3/5/2006 @ 9:26 am
Shane—-I think somebody else hit the same wall as I…

Jeremy—-Look back earlier (circa Page 22) and Shane’s advice to my ‘options appear to be saved but are not actually saved’ issue may assist you through your ‘not sticking’ issue… ie try the WP All Options area, I found it worked well enough;~)
yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options.php

—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 3/5/2006 @ 2:26 pm
I keep getting this, why?
————————–
Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /home/sjostedt/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 1

Comment by Mikael — 5/5/2006 @ 7:26 pm
Thanx for such contact form

Comment by jagsy — 7/5/2006 @ 6:47 am
Stupendous!

Comment by pcb — 8/5/2006 @ 1:11 pm
YOu cant let them email a copy to themselves thats how the send spam from your site.

Comment by tm — 12/5/2006 @ 3:57 am
Very good point tm, there is some protection against that though to try and stop the basic exploits. Of course… people will always try and break what you do!

The problem is that a number of people requested the feature! Perhaps it should be removed again! Any opinions on this?

Comment by Phrixus — 12/5/2006 @ 8:05 am
Thanks for this – very easy to install and works a treat

Comment by skint writer — 14/5/2006 @ 11:09 am
Hi mate that is a great contact form, but can you use this form with wp-phpmailer, as I need to use an smtp mailserver?

However I did try the wp-phpmailer and I cannot get it to send an email using the pxs mail form.

Comment by Mark — 23/5/2006 @ 2:51 pm
Hi Phrixus!

I just installed your Plugin and embedded it into my homepage. Unfortunately I’m not able to access the pxs-options in the wordpress-backend. It keeps saying:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pxs_admin_menu() (previously declared in /WWWROOT/508/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php:25) in /WWWROOT/508/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 24

Can You help me?

Thanks!

Comment by Matthias Tonh�user — 24/5/2006 @ 6:57 pm
works perfect, thx a lot

Comment by snoot — 5/6/2006 @ 10:39 am
Hi Phrixus,

I seem to be having an issue: I’m currently testing out your mailform and sending emails to myself–using different email addresses, and I’m simply not receiving the emails–not even the ones that I’m CC’ing to my different addresses (on various mail servers). When filling out the forms, I get the success message and the redirect just fine, no errors or anything.

Is this a mail protocol issue? Would I need to specify somewhere my outgoing mail details? Has this been an issue with other users?

Thanks

Comment by David C — 12/6/2006 @ 3:35 am
Nice plugin

I have a problem, my template is setup to split the page content into two columns at the tag, using this:

“, $post->post_content); ?>

This means that when the message is sent, the success message is repeated in both columns, and session_destroy(); is called twice.

Any ideas on how to avoid this?

Cheers,

James

Comment by 3stripe — 22/6/2006 @ 1:57 pm
Sorry my code went awry there, it is like this ", $post->post_content); ?>

Or you can see it at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68137?replies=9

Comment by 3stripe — 22/6/2006 @ 1:58 pm
David, I realise there is a lot but I suggest you scan through previous comments to see previous issues like this. It is mainly caused by servers not having the required function available. It is planned that a fix for this problem is created by offering alternative sending methods.

Jason, Unfortunately, I have no experience with that script. The mail plugin merely uses the loop to display the information so I cannot think of anything I can do. If you discover what the error is actually caused by, I may be able to write a work-around for it!!

Comment by Phrixus — 22/6/2006 @ 2:36 pm
Thanks for the info dude.

I’m now trying to call your lovely mail from directly from my template. Can you advise on how to do that? (it’s outside the loop)

Comment by 3stripe — 22/6/2006 @ 2:41 pm
It works for me but I get 12 copies of the email. Has anyone seen this?

Comment by Jack — 23/6/2006 @ 3:49 pm
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Hi James,
Trying to call the plugin from outside the loop is not possible!! I actually tried to do that for another non-wordpress website and did not succeed as it would not have been worth the effort. You could try a standalone php mail script embedded into a page template which would have the desired result.

Jack,
I have not heard of that issue before… though it did make me chuckle thinking about your poor inbox!! That seems like a server issue as I can assure you, the script only send the message once (or twice if the ‘cc me’ option is enabled!!)

Comment by Phrixus — 27/6/2006 @ 4:27 pm
Jack, I had the same problem. It is caused from the form redirecting back to index.php instead of itself like it is supposed to! Therefore, because the index page renders 10 post areas on the page it sends it 10 times!

Comment by johnsee — 30/6/2006 @ 11:54 am
Johnsee, thanks for that info… I wasn’t aware of that (hadn’t thought about that!!) so at least it answers why that sometimes happens!!

Comment by Phrixus — 30/6/2006 @ 1:25 pm
i seem to have problem pasting it on my contact page, does it work with 3 columns or only 2?

Comment by bert — 4/7/2006 @ 4:41 am
Hi Bert, It should work fine. What kind of problem are you having?

Comment by Phrixus — 5/7/2006 @ 2:25 pm
When I click on the options and then contact form tab it goes to my page and I get an error message like this?

Error 404 � File not Found
Sorry, but the page you were looking for could not be found.

Comment by bert — 6/7/2006 @ 3:32 am
I use psxmail in my weblog.
And i like it.

But:
I get spam through that plugin

Is it possible to build some spam procetion in?

There are many possible ways.
1.) how about support for the akismet plugin? Akismet works very well ..
(does anybody know what to do/to hack, that every psxmail-message is checked by akismet before it is sent?)
2.) how about optionally add a captcha?

thanx at all for this plugin.
well done.

Comment by micha — 11/7/2006 @ 5:41 pm
Bert,
What is the URL of the link on that tab… it should be “wp-admin/options-general.php?page=pxsmail.php”. If it isn’t, try pasting this into the address bar after your blog address and see if it works.

Micha,
Thanks for the comments!! You should read over the recent comments as your points have already been answered… to summarise though;
1. There is already a basic system to stop SPAM but this will be made much more robust in the next version.
2. Akismet integration is ok… but what about those that do not use it? I think we will try the new version first to see if it helps.
3. Captcha has been voted out time and time again because they are a PITA!! Everyone hates them!

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Ryan—-
Phew, glad you made it back safely…;~)
—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 7/8/2006 @ 12:05 pm
…doh!
Not Ryan but Shane;~)
(wrong forum)
—-best wishes, Robert

Comment by icpix — 7/8/2006 @ 12:13 pm
Awesome plugin couldnt get Ryans to work for me but this one worked great thanks!

Comment by dave — 20/8/2006 @ 6:52 am
Functions psx emailformular also with Wordpress 2.04?
with the form comes with me (Wp 2,04) an error message dispatched: form is dispatched, (Firefox): perhaps can you begin thereby something?

“Warning: session_destroy() [function.session-destroy]: Trying to destroy uninitialized session in /home/sumu/public_html/psychomuell/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 168″

Comment by Susanne — 20/8/2006 @ 12:42 pm
Nuova pagina: Contact…

Notavo che (uh!) non � possibile contattarmi direttamente dalle pagine del sito (e meno male…sai lo spam…gi� arriva nei commenti…!). Ragion per cui,
in questa domenica sera di fine ferie ho installato il plugin PXS Mail Form, ragg…

Trackback by Subnet.it - J@PHP Blog — 20/8/2006 @ 9:19 pm
Susanne – I had the same problem. To solve it go into Options > PXS-Mail and untick CSS Insertion. You can copy the css code from inside the pxsmail.php file if you want to use it and insert it into your own theme’s css file. Hope this helps.

Comment by Rob — 31/8/2006 @ 8:42 am
Hi Phrixus,
Thanks for the plugin, just awesome for something to work out the box. Been reading the comments ref drop down selection, that would really help me for my apllication, has anyone solved it?
Thanks again
Mark

Comment by Mark — 31/8/2006 @ 3:39 pm
Hi Mark,

What problem are you refering to?

Shane

Comment by Phrixus — 31/8/2006 @ 3:51 pm
Hello Rob,
I made it exactly the same, comes like you it written more done!But the same error message and always 3. eMails were also sent to me.

perhaps is it because of the fact that I use PHP version 5.0.5?

best wishes

Comment by Susanne — 2/9/2006 @ 1:06 pm
Hi!
I’m installing this plugin, but apparently I have problems with a cron job for other plugin. This is the error message:

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie – headers already sent in /home/mysite/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 1
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/mysite/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php:1) in /home/mysite/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 1

Comment by Daniel C�ceres — 9/9/2006 @ 10:35 pm
I do not understand what you mean by:

4. Add {mailform} to the page where you want the form to be inserted.

Can you be a little more detailed?

chris

Comment by chris — 10/9/2006 @ 12:10 am
Chris, when you write a new page in which you would like the form to be shown… just put that code in the text area of the post and save (dont use the rte for this!)… the plugin will then put mail form in place of that code when the page is viewed!

Comment by Phrixus — 11/9/2006 @ 2:12 pm
Hi Daniel, the error you are receiving is due to another plugin setting up a session/wp is sending html headers before the plugin has set up the session. I am not sure how you can fix this at this time other than by removing the code from the plugin that is related to session! The newer version has been designed with a different safety mechanism and will not require sessions in this traditional sense.

Comment by Phrixus — 11/9/2006 @ 2:20 pm
Wonderful plugin.

I’ve been looking for a plugin where recipient can be chosen from a dropdown menu, so your plugin is just perfect.

There’s just one thing I would like if it is possible. Is possible to hide the predefined subject. I just want it to appear in the mail i receive and not in the form. In the form a user can just delete it anyway. I just want to have it like a prefix in the mails. Something like “[From website] blablabla” in the mails I receive, so I know they come from the website.

Is it possible to achieve that with a little changes in the code?

Thanks in advance

Mark

Comment by Mark — 13/9/2006 @ 12:08 pm
Hi Mark,

Just uncheck the “User Subject” box in the plugin options!! Thats all there is to it! What you have written in the subject box will be the subject used.

Shane

Comment by Phrixus — 13/9/2006 @ 1:47 pm
Hi Shane

Ok, it does work, kinda. But I would still like option for the user to write a subject.

The user writes in the subject field: Nice website.

In the mail I receive the subject will be: :From website Nice website.

The “:From website” part is hidden from the user but appears as a prefix in the mail.

Mark

Comment by Mark — 13/9/2006 @ 9:46 pm
Hi Mark,

If you are using multiple recipients, you can adjust this part of the subject in the setup area. Leave the subject part of Multi-message blank if you dont want a prefix.

Shane

Comment by Phrixus — 14/9/2006 @ 11:54 am
hi, just wanna ask a lil question.. i used ur plugin in a windows hosting server.. and the contact form send me no emails, no nothing.. is it compatible with windows hosting, and if it is, what should i do to make it work? do i have to chmod-ing it?

Comment by Artgeex — 20/9/2006 @ 10:32 am
I already use your nice plugin quite a while, but I’d like to have each field (name, email, website, subject) next to the titles in one row. Do you know what I mean? Name: (field) and in next paragraph Email: (field) and so on…
Thanks for helping….
Anja

Comment by missyCola — 20/9/2006 @ 11:04 am
Hi,

is there a way to protect the mail-form against spam? or would it be possible to use captchas or something like this?

would it maybe possible to get this feature (spam-protection in any way) coded? (of course this would be paid!)

thanks,
daniel

btw.: nice plugin !!!

Comment by daniel — 21/9/2006 @ 1:27 pm
Thanks for a great plugin. As was previously requested, would it be possible to have some kind of spam filter? I’m starting to get spam through the contact form and would love to find a way to stop them and only allow legitimate contacts go through.

Thanks!

Comment by May C — 21/9/2006 @ 3:57 pm
Anja,
You could edit the layout of the email by changing the source code of the plugin. You will need to have some php experience to do this though.

Daniel & May,
I have been trying to get round to releasing an updated plugin for some time with extended SPAM protection. Unfortunately, due to a pending house move, there are not enough hours in the day to get it done. This is still planned but it may be some time yet before I can sit down and do it!!

Comment by Phrixus — 21/9/2006 @ 6:16 pm
Maybe you misunderstood me. I don’t want the email layout changed, I just want to have the look of the contact form like yours is here: http://www.phrixus.co.uk/contact.

I use your contact form for more than 6 months without getting a single spam message, but since a few days spam is coming over the contact form daily *sigh* I hate these bastards….

Anja

Comment by missyCola — 23/9/2006 @ 9:30 am
Anja,

I use the default css that is included with the plugin. Have you changed this at all?
You can copy the code into your main style sheet if you prefer and deactivate the css insertion from the settings page. You can then tweak the settings to your liking.

I agree with you though…. SPAM is a pain in the @$$!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 23/9/2006 @ 9:53 am
Phrixus, I have it now. Thank you very much for your kind help!
Have a good weekend, Anja.

Comment by missyCola — 23/9/2006 @ 3:27 pm
It has a CC Sender option and no longer requires a seperate admin options file. The plugin works

Comment by James in Cala Dor Palma de Mallorca — 24/9/2006 @ 3:34 pm
First of all, thanks for the great plug-in!! I love this and it is a great way to keep my email address away from spammers. I have found this to be one of the best WP plug-ins I’ve tried.
My question is, can I configure it differently for different uses. For example, I use it on my contact page, and it goes to my info account. I would also like to use it in a different spot to allow users to sign up for update, but I would like for that info to be mailed to a different email address (or maybe just a different default email subject)
Can this be done?
Thanks again!

Comment by musicphotog.com — 26/9/2006 @ 2:15 pm
This is the only decent mail form I’ve found for wordpress and like others I’d like to see some spam protection added.
Image verification etc

Comment by Wanda Rich — 29/9/2006 @ 4:07 pm
PXS Mail is a really great contact form plugin! I’ve a little problem with the css for it, though. I’m using it inside Wordpress 2.0.4 and K2 theme and some of the form elements are not aligned properly when viewed in Safari (Firefox display is perfect). My CSS knowledge is not fundamental enough to fix this, maybe someone can give me a hand on it: http://www.shufflegrip.com/contact/

Thanks.

Comment by Markus — 30/9/2006 @ 4:01 am
Sorry, the link I gave to my contact form doesn’t work. Please try this instead: http://macinfo.beeven.de/wordpress/contact/

Comment by Markus — 2/10/2006 @ 2:39 pm
Just by great luck I�ve found out how to get the form elements properly aligned within my WordPress/K2 combo:

I�ve just put in a “clear:both;” right after the “float:left;” inside the following CSS declaration:

form dt, dl.labels dt {
float:left;
clear:both;
width:10em;
margin-bottom:0.8em;
color:#555;
text-align:right;
font-weight:normal;
position:relative /*IEWin hack*/
}

Comment by Markus — 3/10/2006 @ 1:03 am
Musicphotog,
This can be done but it is not very easy to achieve. Essentially you would need to duplicate the plugin file and rename all of the functions in it. This could take about 20 mins using “replace all” in your favourite editor! You would then have 2 version of the plugin that could be configured differently. You would also have to make sure you altered the insertion code in one of the plugins to {mailform2} or similar.

Markus,
Sorry I couldnt help earlier… good work though… glad its sorted!

Wanda,
In the past, probably 99.9% of people have said that they do not want image verification as at that time the SPAM protection in the plugin was pretty good… unfortunately the SPAMMERS are now better! I have a new plan for considerably improving the protection in the plugin but I need to get round to writing it. I expect to do this at some time in the nearish future when I have moved house and settle in enough to find some free time!! Also, my friend Gringod has developed an awesome auto update tool that I am sure we will get integrated to help future updates… keep an eye on this page to see future updates!!

Comment by Phrixus — 3/10/2006 @ 7:54 am
wow! this is the perfect contact form plugin for wordpress! thank you very much!

Comment by LiewCF — 5/10/2006 @ 4:15 am
Really great plugin. This is what I was looking for.

Comment by Sajid Iqbal — 6/10/2006 @ 8:01 am
How can I install this mail form on my website and please email me your email reply to ms_ag@juno.com Thank You. A.G.

Comment by A.G. — 6/10/2006 @ 1:59 pm
Nice and very comfortable plugin)
It’s look better then Contact Form ][ 2.9. (because it takes wordwarp and my host doesn’t have it now)

Thanks for this plugin)

Comment by Lexian — 8/10/2006 @ 12:10 pm
I love this plugin

Is there a way to include the mailform directly in a page template, instead of using {mailform} in the page content?

Cheers,

3stripe

Comment by 3stripe — 12/10/2006 @ 9:16 am
very good plugin, thanks

Comment by Carlos Bus�n — 13/10/2006 @ 11:50 am
So capchas have been voted down time and again… OK, so why not make them optional. No one has to use them who doesn’t want them. Another alternative would be to have a Turing test with simple Q/As – “What is the name of this blog?” “What is 2+11 ? ” etc. Or even a capcha system done as plain text rather than as an image. No, that wouldn’t be as secure as an image capcha, but we’re not running ticketmaster sites here – we just need some basic protection against injection – it’s getting mighty annoying (I get 5 – 10 spam emails per day from my contact form). Anything would be better than nothing!

Thanks,
Scot

Comment by Scot Hacker — 15/10/2006 @ 11:20 pm
Hello

When I use the form the email of the sender don’t get through. I get something servergenerated instead. Something like:

root@mailgw1.kleinweb.dk

kleinweb.dk is the host. I have the same problem with another host. Is there somewhere in the plugin where some adjustments can be made or did I miss something?

Mark

Comment by Mark — 19/10/2006 @ 1:02 pm
I’ve been using this plug-in and started receiving spam messages because of it (I used a unique e-mail address for it). Is there any way to add CAPCHA or some type of easy authentication to the form to keep the spam bots out? Thanks!

Comment by Carlton Bale — 23/10/2006 @ 2:12 am
Hello

It wasn’t your wonderful plugin that caused the problem. In my eagerness to translate the plugin to danish i changed:

$headers = “From: $name \n”; // your email client will show the person’s email address like normal

to

$headers = “Fra: $name \n”; // your email client will show the person’s email address like normal

In other words I changed “From” to “Fra”. That makes a huge difference to the mail program I found out.

Otherwise I’ve made danish localization of the olugin which I hope is ok with you. And with your consent I would like to offer it for download on the danish WordPress site htpp://wordpress.dk. We’re a group of people that maintains the danish localization of WordPress and localize the themes, plugins etc.

Best regards and thanks for your effort.

Mark

Comment by Mark — 23/10/2006 @ 9:31 pm
Well, I’m getting 10-20 spams per day through my contact form now, and it’s got to stop. I don’t see any recent responses from the developer on this forum about this, so will assume development has stopped and try another contact form that does support capchas or turing tests. Too bad – I really liked PXSMail, but this is untenable.

Comment by Scot Hacker — 24/10/2006 @ 9:46 pm
Hi,

just want to let you know that i’ve translated this plugin to brazilian portuguese (pt-br) and i’m making it avaiable at my website.

link: http://www.fabrica021.com/wp/2006/10/pxs-mailform-traduzido-pt-br/

Comment by Pedro Koblitz — 25/10/2006 @ 9:42 pm
Just wanted to leave a link for other people dealing with the spam barrage :

Secure and accessible PHP contact form for WORDPRESS

Full-featured, great config options, several spam-proofing features built in.

Comment by Scot Hacker — 29/10/2006 @ 7:11 pm
Hi all plugin users,

I just wanted to offer an update on the development of the plugin. I am very nearly moved into my new house hich has taken up about 5 months of work (Renovation)… the broadband has been installed and my computer equipment is being unpacked now! With any luck, I will be able to get the new plugin out and about soon with most of the features that you have all requested… trust me… sitting down and coding will be bliss!!!

Shane

Comment by Phrixus — 3/11/2006 @ 10:31 am
Hi. I am enjoying the plugin, and it works except that it always sends out two emails. Has anyone come accross this behavior and is there a fix? Also, I get the following error after I hit “submit”:

Warning: session_destroy() [function.session-destroy]: Trying to destroy uninitialized session in /homepages/pathtomydomain/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 156

Would that error be connected to me getting two emails? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Comment by adrian — 8/11/2006 @ 6:20 am
Hi,
i am using your plug-in, and i am really happy with it.
Is it possible to add in the new version some more fields for example:
reason of contact
phone-number
…

Anyway, thanks for your work and have a nice time in your newly renovated house.
Detlef

Comment by Detlef — 9/11/2006 @ 10:48 am
Hi Detlef,
This is exactly the sort of thing that should be possible in the new form. It will have the option to add more fields as required. This will also help with translation as the field labels will be editable.

Adrian,
There is a comment somewhere on this page that explains why that happens. It is due to the loop running more than once. I cant remember if there was a solution or not and I am sorry but I have no time to look it up for you… have a look through and see if you can find it!!

Comment by Phrixus — 9/11/2006 @ 11:22 am
Thanks, Phrixus. I missed it the first time through. I had the {mailform} in a post. Apparently since there were two posts on the home page it executed twice. I put it in a page instead and that solved the problem. Thanks again!

Comment by adrian — 10/11/2006 @ 5:53 am
Great Plug-in, thanks so much!

I was wondering it if were possible to make a mail form specific to a certain party (i.e. “{mailform:recipient 1}”). I’d love to be able to create a direct link to “Contact” page set to recipient 1, but still allowing the user to change the recipient drop down to any user requested.

Thanks,

-Mario

Comment by Rio — 13/11/2006 @ 6:51 am
As a follow up, I discovered that I could create a link to my contact us page with the mail for to make it specific to a certain user.

In psxmail.php, at around line 189, I changed the existing code to look like this:

do {
$select .= ” . $body[$bodyStart]['1'] . ”;
$bodyStart = $bodyStart + 1;

Assuming your mail form were on a page called “Contact us” with permalinks enabled, then create links like:

href=”http://yourblog.com/contact-us/?person_selected=0″

Comment by Rio — 13/11/2006 @ 7:49 pm
That code didn’t come out right, trying again:

do {
$select .= ‘<option ‘;
if ($bodyStart == $_GET["person_selected"]){
$select .= ‘SELECTED ‘;
}
$select .= ‘value="’ . $bodyStart.’">’ . $body[$bodyStart]['1'] . ‘</option>’;
$bodyStart = $bodyStart + 1;

Comment by Rio — 13/11/2006 @ 7:55 pm
Rio, thanks for the usage info. I haven’t used this plugin until now. I’m a little behind the times.
Thanks for the posts of the Plugins as well Phrixus.

Laura
Fan of Don Lapre
http://www.lauraglydaband.com
laura@lauraglydaband.com

Comment by Fan of Don Lapre — 15/11/2006 @ 3:40 pm
Brilliant.

Thank you so much. Other similar plugins haven’t worked for me so I was delighted when I found yours.

Cheers,

Rob
http://abouthere.co.uk/blog

Comment by Rob — 16/11/2006 @ 1:25 pm
Hi,

Great plugin and working very well, thanks.

I do have a question, I’m using polyglot to allow users to switch from English to French, how do I emplement the choice in the actual form. if I enter the sever returns an error

Comment by Eric — 7/12/2006 @ 5:10 pm
Thanks for all of your comments guys!!

Eric, I am afraid I have not even seen the Polyglot plugin so I dont know how it is creating the tranlation. If its dynamic, it may be possible to force it run after the mailform plugin which may help.

Comment by Phrixus — 8/12/2006 @ 8:47 am
Hi Phrixus,
It uses _e( or __( tags as you did for the option pannel translation. You will find it at http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/polyglot . I just want to be able to insert … _e(‘your name (required)’) … in the actual form so users will have in the form in their language.

Please advise as I’m not so knowledgable about php. Thanks.
Eric

Comment by Eric — 9/12/2006 @ 12:22 am
Hello, I installed your plugin but when I press Submit, it doesn’t redirect (success page). Do you have any idea what’s wrong with it? Could it be my PHP configuration on my server?

Comment by BWG — 10/12/2006 @ 3:21 am
hi there,

I have been using your plugin on several websites for quite a while, but a week ago I started getting spam coming from my contact pages.
do you think these contact forms are now being targeted by spambots?

any idea what I could do against that? I could send you some mails I got from the contact form so you could see for yourself…
although these spams could have also been manually submitted…

Comment by ovizii — 11/12/2006 @ 10:46 pm
Hi,
Great plugin!
Just wondering if it is possible to have multiple recipiants to one subject.

For example
email1@example.com,email2@example.com,Person 1, Person 2,Subject 1;email3@example.com,email1@example.com,Person 3, Person 1,Subject 2;

Or email@example.com,email2@example.com,Subject 1; email@example.com,email3@example.com,Subject 2;

Please let me know.

Cheers,
Luke

Comment by Luke Freeman — 12/12/2006 @ 3:53 am
Hi Luke,
Do you also want the email to go to more than one person?

BWG,
Does the message get sent??

ovizii,
I think they are getting smarter!! The new design for the PXS Mailform will be much more secure… unfortunately I do not have the time to create it just yet!!… One day!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 14/12/2006 @ 11:16 pm
Hi, I have this plugin installed but I receive no emails when I try and send it to my main account. If I try different email accounts then it works.

It wont send emails to my hotmail.co.uk account. Ive tried sending a normal message and a cc’d message but it just doesn’t get through?

Any ideas?

Comment by Ben — 15/12/2006 @ 11:26 am
Nice plugin, thanks for sharing it

Comment by Wanda — 17/12/2006 @ 7:42 pm
Hi Ben,

Check the SPAM directory to see if it is being captured there by mistake!!

Shane

Comment by Phrixus — 19/12/2006 @ 7:15 pm
Hi Shane!

Thanks for your plugin!
I’ve activated it in plugins alas get the blog vanishing and error:

“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare getip() (previously declared in /home/haircuts/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-contact-form/wp-contactform.php:228) in /home/haircuts/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 239″

I’m a green newbie with blogs and am using the SemiologicPro CMS.

Thankful for your assistance!

curly.

Comment by curly — 20/12/2006 @ 9:46 am
I just tried to install the plugin and got “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare getip() (previously declared in /home/profecti/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php:241)” any idea on what went wrong?

Also, do you know if the plugin will work (send emails) if I”m using BlueHost which is a smtp based mail system.

Comment by Dave — 21/12/2006 @ 11:28 pm
lovely plugin bro Thanx a bunch for it !!!

And also i might be workin in to modify fields in it !!!

Comment by samir — 26/12/2006 @ 5:15 pm
I’m having the same fatal error problem. No idea how to fix it.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare getip() (previously declared in /home/lifein2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail/pxsmail.php:241) in /home/lifein2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-contact-form/wp-contactform.php on line 197

Comment by George — 4/1/2007 @ 4:00 pm
Thanks for your plugin!

Comment by Khalid — 4/1/2007 @ 11:34 pm
Hi George,

Exactly the same as previous questions about that issue, please disable one of the other contact forms you are running/have installed. As they have the same function in, they cannot be used together!

Comment by Phrixus — 6/1/2007 @ 12:19 pm
Hi,
Please let me know, can be PXS mail be spammed? At present I am using PHP mail on external pages, but new spam robots started to send spam through this to different email addresses. So I’d like to change the setup for a similar solution.
Thanks,
Janos

Comment by hu domain regisztráció — 7/1/2007 @ 8:18 pm
Hi Janos,

A spammer would have to target the form directly to get a response but I suppose it is possible. Currently if any of the codes that are needed get detected, the script will just exit. The session based referrer check was limited as a few people had session issues. A new version is being rewritten now with bullet-proof security. I have been working on it very slowly for quite some time but with any luck… this year it will be out!!!

Shane

Comment by Phrixus — 7/1/2007 @ 9:50 pm
I am trying to get the from to work, but the {mailform} is not working for me.

Comment by Michael — 9/1/2007 @ 2:49 am
I don’t know if others are experiencing it but I seem to getting contact form spam.

I’ve had atleast three emails yesterday with spam links and incorrect email addresses.

I’m not sure whether the spammer is hitting me manually or via some kinda bot.
Any clues?

Comment by Ajay — 14/1/2007 @ 3:19 am
Hi,

Is it possible with this plugin to create new fields or get rid of some of the default ones ? How ?

If not in this version; will it be possible in the next one ?

Comment by Lysiane — 17/1/2007 @ 8:22 am
Hi Michael,
{mailform} is the only way to get the form… as has been mentioned many times before… please turn off the RTE when editing the page.

Hi Ajay,
I have to confess, I still have not had any SPAM through the contact form. Can you confirm from the email that it was definitely from the form… if so, could you forward it to me and I will be able to adjust the filters to stop it. Of course, if people are filling the form out… I cant stop it… the only option is the optional captcha I have for the next version.

Lysiane,
You can edit the code and remove the non required fields easily, the required fields can be removed by creating a default value in the source code and adding new fields will be difficult… unless you change the existing!!! The next version will have configurable fields… should be quite cool!!!

Shane

Comment by Phrixus — 21/1/2007 @ 5:34 pm
Thanks for this great plugin! Any chance it works ok with Wordpress 2.1 before I upgrade?

Thanks!

Comment by JD — 23/1/2007 @ 7:27 pm
I have downloaded and installed successfully the plugin however when I want to change the mail that is sends the form to it will not change. I change and click update, but it never changes even though it says it have saved the options. Please help!

Comment by Mark Wilkinson — 31/1/2007 @ 5:37 pm
Works great! Thank you
(just tried with WP 2.1)

Comment by Elaine Vigneault — 1/2/2007 @ 5:58 pm
Hello phrixus..

My name Ken. From Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
I’m newbie in wordpress. I find a form similar or same purpose with facile form or perform in Joomla..

This plugin working for wordpress 2.1
Can i created multy entry with this website?
I want add free search engine submission service for all visitor, so This need multry entry

xThc

Comment by Tedy — 2/2/2007 @ 1:08 am
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Pingback by Top Wordpress Plugins - Mr.bssn - Bssn?????? — 7/2/2007 @ 1:49 pm
I’ve been getting spam occasionally…it’s formatted exactly like PXS Mail Form is setup to output. I’ve got hit tracking, and the IP address in the email does not match any of the visitors on my site. It seems as though they either have Javascript off (thus not showing up in my stats), or they’re submitting the form without actually visiting my site.

Next time I get one, I’ll save it and forward, if you’d like. Happens about once every couple weeks.

Thanks for the excellent plugin, though! I’ve been using this for quite a while and it’s a lot safer than just putting a mailto link up.

Comment by Mike — 8/2/2007 @ 5:17 pm
Hello,

I’ve been using your plugin, and it’s perfect for my movie website because I can put contact forms on as many pages as I want. Unfortunately, I think it’s incompatible with Wordpress 2.1.

Whenever I load my blog for the first time, I get the error message “Warning: ob_start() [ref.outcontrol]: output handler �ob_gzhandler� cannot be used after �URL-Rewriter� in /home/nofacefo/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 336″ at the very top of the screen. When I refresh the page, the error message disappears; however, the feed is still invalidated.

Will you be updating your plugin?

Comment by Toni — 9/2/2007 @ 6:48 am
Tedy,
I am not sure what you mean… can you be more specific?

Mike,
That would be great. If there is a problem I will certainly see if I can find a way to prevent it!

Toni,
I have the plugin running on other sites that are WP2.1. Can you explain why you think PXS Mail is the cause of the gzip error?? You could try disabling the option in Wordpress which sends the browser a gzipped copy of the page(s) if requested.

Comment by Phrixus — 10/2/2007 @ 12:50 am
Hi,

I’ve put the plugin on my soon-to-be released WP blog. the problem is that it just won’t send the messages. I tried it a little with test messages, even included the CCmyself option and nothing… I haven’t received the message on either e-mail addresses…

Can anyone helpme out?

Comment by alinCiortea — 16/2/2007 @ 11:36 am
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This is a great plugin — thanks for making it, and looking forward to the next version! (Crossing my fingers it integrates really nicely with K2.

Comment by Urban Strata — 18/2/2007 @ 7:27 pm
This plugin is truly awsome.

Thanks v much

Comment by Kev — 18/2/2007 @ 9:23 pm
I’ve have this plug-in installed, and it seems just what I need – but there’s a serious incompatibility with my setup. It may be my theme – K2 – I’m not sure.

Once an email is sent, I’m presented with my home page and the headings for the ten posts on the home page. But instead of the body of the posts, under each heading is my “Thanks for sending me a message” text.

Worse still is that I actually get ten copies of the email!

You can see this in action at site (click on contact me at the top of my blog) – but for obvious reasons, please don’t try it very often!

Thanks.

Comment by Mark Barnes — 19/2/2007 @ 12:41 am
[...] The site is built around WordPress and K2 (a theming framework on top of WordPress).� On top of this I implemented the Blue-K2 theme and have added the following plugin: Askimet, Blue-K2 Quicktags, Feedburner Feed Replacement, PXS Mail Form, Smart Update Pinger and Ultimate Tag Warrior. [...]

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Hi Mark,

That issue has been reported in the past. The answer is in the comments here but I cannot remember offhand what the solution was! Take a look and see if you can find the solution… if not let me know!!

Shane

Comment by Phrixus — 19/2/2007 @ 7:11 pm
Rigged this into some friends site today running Markdown. I skimmed your comments and found another poster last year who made a work around and I wanted to report it still works but it would be better if you could roll his patch into your base so that in future versions we’re not having to dig for the solution again.

If you don’t want to roll his notes into your code please add the note that you will be disabling people’s markdown plugin as it was a real surprise to see the site go from right to wrong.

Appreciate your time and efforts putting this into the community.

-a

Comment by Andy C — 19/2/2007 @ 11:09 pm
Thanks for the reply re: multiple emails. I found the earlier discussion at http://www.phrixus.co.uk/index.php?page_id=227&cp=26#comments

However, the problem was only explained, not solved.

I have tried changing the redirect of my contact for, but that doesn’t work. I wonder whether the problem is caused because of my blog being in the root, and/or my permalink structure being /index.php/id-name?

Comment by Mark Barnes — 21/2/2007 @ 11:25 pm
I love this plugin and I use it on several sites. Any chance you have plans to add a captcha or some kind of anti-spam feature? I’m getting flooded with stupid link spam…

Comment by dan — 22/2/2007 @ 12:09 pm
Captcha is bad, but there is simpler solutions that will work. Just ask a question such as “What is 3+3?” or “Type the word written here”. I can’t see spammers rewriting their scripts just to bypass that. I they do, just write the question using javascript.

Comment by Mark Barnes — 22/2/2007 @ 8:57 pm
Thanks for the contact form. Looks great.

captcha would be good though.

Comment by Sam — 24/2/2007 @ 11:01 am
Mark,
I am really not sure what the problem was but it is clearly something to do with the loop! You could try hard coding the url of the contact form into the script file itself.

Andy,
Good point about the plugin… when I implemented that originally I was not aware it would affect the whole site. I will probably remove the filter completely.

Dan, Mark & Sam,
The new version (If I ever get around to completing it!!!) will have a number of antispam methods as well as a lot of other features that will help with customisation etc.

Comment by Phrixus — 24/2/2007 @ 11:44 am
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Pingback by PSXMail plugin para Contacto » Latino-Blog.Com — 25/2/2007 @ 12:21 pm
Hi, I thought you dropped support of PXS Mailform. I like your Plugin very much and use it a lot. I gettexted it completely. It would be nice if you could do so in the 3.0 Version. Feel free to use my changed code (http://diekretzschmars.de/2007/pxs-mailform/) and po-file. If 3.0 Version is near release, let me know if you are interested in a localized Version. Would be nice if future Versions would support gettext. Ask me, if you need help.

Comment by Kretzschmar — 26/2/2007 @ 6:10 pm
—Add {mailform} to the page where you want the form to be inserted.

I finished above installation upto three. I dont know how to do the fourth step…. gimme a help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks

Comment by Raja — 1/3/2007 @ 9:49 am
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Pingback by WordPress Plugins - The good the bad and the ugly : Scott’s Morning Brew — 3/3/2007 @ 1:13 pm
Hi, goot work!
But, I from Russia and I had problems with the charset.
I add the module iconv.
Now all is sent in the encoding windows-1251.
Tnx.
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Comment by Alexey M. — 6/3/2007 @ 12:00 am
good

Comment by Alexey M. — 6/3/2007 @ 12:02 am
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Thanks for your great contribution.

Comment by MJ99 PHP Scripts — 13/3/2007 @ 9:24 pm
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Pingback by My favourite WordPress plugins�Abhishek Kumar — 16/3/2007 @ 9:32 pm
Hi,

Liked your plugin a lot… Thanks!

Can you implement a feature in the form which allows only registered users to be able to contact the webmaster?

Comment by Manoj Sterex — 17/3/2007 @ 8:09 pm
Are you going to update it for WordPress 2.1 and above? It’s broke in that version.

Comment by Scott — 18/3/2007 @ 7:42 pm
Scott,
I am not sure what you mean, check this site which is 2.1 and the form is working fine.

Comment by Phrixus — 18/3/2007 @ 8:26 pm
I earlier reported (as did others) that I was getting five copies of every email (five, because that’s how many posts I have on my home page). That problem has now stopped. I changed two things: (1) I’m on Apache not IIS. (2) My permalink structure no longer includes /index.php/

I don’t know which change solved the problem though!

Comment by Mark Barnes — 21/3/2007 @ 12:19 am
Hi Phrixus,

First just wanted to say great plugin. Second, I noticed a couple of places where I think some improvements could be made. Hope it’s okay, but I am including the improvements here in a comment.

1 – You use preg_replace when swapping out the {mailform} tag with the form. This is slow and not required. Here is what I replace it with:

return str_replace(‘{mailform}’, $form, $content);

2 – When WP calls psx_callback, it does a ton of stuff before actually checking if the form is required on a post. So right at the top of the psx_callback function I include the following two lines:

global $post;
if (($post->post_type != ‘page’) || !strpos(‘{mailform}’,$content)) return $content;

So essientially, I make $post global so we have access to it here. Then I check to see if we are on a ‘page’ (this only work in 2.1 with my check, though making it work in lesser versions would be easy) and not a post, and finally use strpos to see if {mailform} is in this content, and if either requirement is not met, we get out before doing anything else.

Perhaps I am way off base here, but having to run a preg_match on every post on my site, everytime a page is loaded seemed a bit over kill.

Hope this helps.

Comment by James — 21/3/2007 @ 7:33 pm
Mark,
Thats interesting to note… thanks for the findings!!!

James,
Those are good points that have been covered in V3 of the plugin. I think your example will benefit those users using the current version as I am not releasing the next version just yet. Thank-you for posting this here!!

Comment by Phrixus — 23/3/2007 @ 12:45 am
Instead of reading 39 pages of comments to see if this has been asked, Ill just ask again.

I get a lot of spam through this, is there going to be some sort of captcha in the new version?

Comment by Dave — 23/3/2007 @ 8:18 pm
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Pingback by Rothemund » Blog Archive » Wordpress plugin: PXS Mail Form — 4/4/2007 @ 10:00 pm
I wanted to have two different versions of the mailform for my website. After reading through the comments I decided to replace the string “pxs” to “pxxs” (for the whole file) and then search for the string “function” in the script. Most functions have been changed to pxxs…. with the exception of a few such as ValidateEmail or getip. I then did a search for ValidateEmail and replaced it with ValidateEmail_. And so on. Next search for “mailform” and change it to something different, which you will then have to use within your post to call the function {mailform_new}.

Then rename the actual php script (pxxsmail.php) and upload it. Voila. Check under plugins/options . . .

I too ran into the problem with the destroyed function error messages and duplicate mails. I had originally called the function from a post, I changed this then into a post instead and it worked just fine.

Now you can go and search within the script for “blog” for example. You will find the place where the field “Website” is populated in the form. And a few more places where some checks are being done and the $fullmsg variable being filled. Some creative copy/paste and suddenly I had two different Email forms.

Many thanks for the script, Phrixus.

PS: I am sure there is a better way of doing it, but hey, I am not a php junky, just some trial and error. And I thought I’ll share. Hope this helps somebody somehow

Comment by Markus — 13/4/2007 @ 12:12 am
Rather nice plugin.

As a plugin (amateur) coder myself though, I must say that your coding style is not the prettiest. Way too generic function names (‘get_ip()’ is sure to conflict any time with another function in a plugin or WP core itself for example) and there’s way too many options added in the db while a single entry with an array of your options could be enough and more efficient.

Comment by Ozh — 20/4/2007 @ 10:22 am
Thanks for the copmments everyone.

@Ozh, bear in mind that this version was originally created in March 05 and has been hacked around witha lot. I have been rewriting the new plugin from scratch using all I have learnt in the last 3 years to make it as reliable as possible…. its also much prettier!!!

Comment by Phrixus — 20/4/2007 @ 10:30 am
Hi,

I just installed this on my website but I’m afraid it doesn’t work for me. The contact form is created but it doesn’t send an e-mail when I test it.

I’m using WP 2.1.3

Any idea what the problem might be?

Comment by Keith — 6/5/2007 @ 9:50 pm
I have the same Problem here. The form is created, but no email is sent. Im using WP 2.13, too.

Comment by Schorsch — 9/5/2007 @ 8:24 am
I guess I will need to find some time to upgrade Wordpress then!!

Comment by Phrixus — 10/5/2007 @ 2:11 pm
Hey- I installed this on my site, and it works perfectly. Quick question though, can someone take a look at it at http://www.themmo.com/contact and tell me why there’s so much space between my menu and the form? (There’s not this much space on any other page)

Let me know- I’d love to resolve this asap. I’m guessing there’s a “” tag somewhere hidden in the php but I can’t find it. What’s interesting is that when an error is made, the text fills this empty space. Maybe the space is just there to allow the error messages, etc. appear?

Let me know
Thanks!

Comment by Andrew — 19/5/2007 @ 1:17 am
I don’t think this works with Markdown anymore. Once I enable this plugin, my Markdown goes unformatted.

Markdown v. 1.0.1f

Comment by Robin — 19/5/2007 @ 11:17 pm
Andrew,

I just had a quick look at your site using FireFox and the excellent FireBug add-on (get it if you don’t already have it ) and it looks like there is an empty p tag between your “Drop us a line” title and the form.

Whether this is output by the plugin or not I cannot say. But thats what causing the extra white-space.

Comment by Adrian — 29/5/2007 @ 1:58 pm
[...] Ever since I started using the PXS Mail Form plugin in favor of WP-ContactForm for my contact page, I always had problems with it conflicting with the Markdown plugin. Namely, that it disabled the Markdown formatting, and left me with a pile of rubbish. [...]

Pingback by robinadr | PXSMail and Markdown — 18/6/2007 @ 12:18 am
I get this error message upon submission: “Warning: session_destroy() [function.session-destroy]: Trying to destroy uninitialized session in /path/to/pxsmail.php on line 156.” The email still gets sent (although I get two copies), I just thought I would pass this along. I’m using WP version 2.2.1.

Comment by Brandon — 22/6/2007 @ 9:14 am
same like before, I just installed this on my website but I�m afraid it doesn�t work for me, so i test it. The contact form is created but it doesn�t send an e-mail when I test it. can u help me?

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Pingback by Trendy Today » Blog Archive » Contact Form WordPress Plugins — 3/8/2007 @ 12:54 pm
Hello,
I have a problem with charset in e-mail body.
My web is utf-8.
I tried some tricks:
//$headers .= “Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$blog_chars\n”;
$headers .= “Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2\n”;
$headers .= “Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n”;

I have to use polish characters not only on web site but also in e-mails.
Sorry, i had to translate all text into polish.

Regards,
Rafal Domeracki

Comment by Rafal Domeracki — 6/8/2007 @ 8:12 pm
Hi, I’m trying to use this on a Semiologic Wordpress install at “Dotties Diet Zone” but couldn’t find it in the Plugins to enable it. Any idea? Thanks in advance!

Comment by Dotties Diet Zone — 19/8/2007 @ 7:25 pm
So here is the deal. I’m not a great hacker or even really that fluent with all this stuff. I spent a good part of a day trying to get a contact form that looked good and was truly functional working in my WordPress blog. Yours did the trick. Thanks for making it easy and having clear instructions.

Comment by Funky White Blood — 20/8/2007 @ 7:18 pm
Hi Phrixus, your plugin is the best mail form for worpress that I’ve found. I’ve just one problem to solve: the sender mail does not appear when I receive the mail from my website, I receive the mail (another issue, I receive 5 mails..) from anonymous@mailbox.aruba.it, that’s my ISP. Do you know how to solve this issue? Thanks a lot for your attention and your patience (my english is not so good, I know this )

Comment by CrazyHorse — 6/9/2007 @ 9:47 pm
Phrixus,
Your plugin loaded great and all the options seem to work as well. I sent a test e-mail and its been an hour and I haven’t received the mail. Could this be a problem of wordpress? I dont see what I am doing wrong. I have quadruple checked all the address info and options.

Thanks.
Jai

Comment by Jai — 19/9/2007 @ 12:53 am
Thanks for the quick response Phrixus, I’m curious if your update does any referrer checking on the post?

I’ve fixed the carriage return vulnerability, but am still getting flooded with junk mail from kiddies attempting to exploit this issue.

Comment by E5kc — 15/10/2007 @ 2:56 am
great plugin for my blog

Comment by selim61 — 17/10/2007 @ 12:14 pm
Great Plugin, Thanks for it. I’m using the german translation by Frank Bueltge, and it works fine

Regards from Germany

Comment by Markus — 20/10/2007 @ 11:39 pm
Nice Plugin. I am using it on my site and would like to recommend that you inlude a re-Captcha for the form. see http://recaptcha.net.

Comment by Richard Lennox — 5/11/2007 @ 7:22 pm
Very Nice Plugin. I am using it on my site and would like to recommend that you inlude a re-Captcha for the form.

Comment by wooden serving trays — 17/11/2007 @ 7:24 am
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Great plugin. Thank you.

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good plugin thank you…

Comment by cep telefonu — 7/1/2008 @ 6:52 am
Nice Plugin. I am using it on my site and would like to recommend that you inlude a re-Captcha for the form. see

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Comment by prefabrik — 21/1/2008 @ 9:22 pm
nice plugin

Comment by prefabrik — 21/1/2008 @ 9:23 pm
Hi;

I’m here to thanks you for this Great Plugin I used it and I also translated to Arabic Language its working perfectly

Link (http://saafah.com/?page_id=26)
Thanks again

Regards
Eng. Ghanim Altoum

Comment by ghanim — 23/1/2008 @ 10:42 am
Great plugin. Thank you.

Comment by atama — 1/2/2008 @ 10:15 pm
Great plugin. Thank you.

Comment by e-okul — 1/2/2008 @ 10:20 pm
Very useful plugin. Thanks for sharing.

Comment by estetik — 14/3/2008 @ 7:56 am
hi!
great plugin!
is it somehow possible to use a mail-link or maybe an ID for passing the receiver-emailadress to the form? that would be a great addition to the plugin!

flo

Comment by flo — 19/3/2008 @ 4:07 pm
Hi Is it possible to send image attachments with this form ?

Comment by Glenn Kilpatrick — 22/3/2008 @ 11:02 am
Hi

Fab plugin, just one thing, why cant i get it to send the email? The form works it says successful but no email is sent to my inbox either as the cc or to the mailbox accoutn i have set up to send the emails from? Please can you help?

Comment by Abi — 23/3/2008 @ 12:56 pm
@flo
I am not sure what you mean!

@Glenn
Not with this version

@Abi
This tends to be a server problem. Somehow, the server is reporting to PHP that the email has been sent when it actually hasn’t done anything!!

Comment by Phrixus — 2/4/2008 @ 11:54 pm
Hi.. I’m new here.. How to get the {mailform} codes? And can I paste it under text widget? I dunno where to find it. Please help. Thank you

Comment by Atniz — 7/4/2008 @ 2:08 pm
perfect,thanks

Comment by baron — 9/4/2008 @ 12:33 am
This is a great plugin! THank you so much

Comment by Campervan Rental Australia — 16/4/2008 @ 12:58 am
Fab plugin, just one thing, why cant i get it to send the email? The

Comment by lpg — 6/5/2008 @ 6:45 pm
Is it possible to add a part of php into the file to make it use a different email provider?

So like, You enter your email say myemail@inbox.com then my log in info and like the my.inbox.com in the pop3 box or whatever it is?

Ive tried a few contact form plugins, and none work with my host. It doesnt send the email

Comment by Stuart — 12/5/2008 @ 6:20 pm
Hello there sir/maam, good day!
I am really new to blogging and wordpress, I am having difficulty in embedding the PXS mail form in my Contact page. See my contact page here http://www.whatsthelatest.net/contact/ . That’s my problem, I don’t know how to put your PXS plugin in my contact page.

Could you please help me on this? I really need your help.
Thank you very much, I’ll be looking forward for your reply.

By the way, great plugin.
More power and GOD bless.

Comment by Zplits — 15/6/2008 @ 6:19 am
Hello there Phrixus, good day!
I am really new to blogging, and i don’t know how PXS mail form works. Does it works to everypage? where can it be found? and i don’t know how to attached or embed your PXS mail form into my contact page. See my contact page http://www.whatsthelatest.net/contact/ . Have you seen it? Is it possible if i put your mail form in it? That’s really my plan. I want to embed it to my contact page.

Please help me on this.
Thanks in advance.

Comment by zplitstonez — 16/6/2008 @ 4:28 pm
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Help, all works but I get this error message when I try out the contact me page our blog.. can anybody help me?

http://blog.kevinandcharmaine.com/?page_id=23

error message:
Warning: session_destroy() [function.session-destroy]: Trying to destroy uninitialized session in D:\hosting\member\kevn101\site1\blog\wp-content\plugins\pxsmail.php on line 156

Ps. I am not a techie…

Comment by kevin angelo — 22/6/2008 @ 3:12 am
Thanks for the contact form. Looks great.

captcha would be good though.

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Are there any plans to add Captcha or some sort of human verification in the future releases?

Comment by Jason — 22/4/2009 @ 6:00 pm
Hi,

I cannot narrow the message box so it doesn’t overlap the next section in my site. I’ve searched the PHP file, but cannot find where to fix it. Please take a look: http://www.wheninneed.org/?page_id=11

Thanks!
Susan

Comment by Susan — 28/4/2009 @ 4:07 am
Hi.

I would ask You, what can I do to make a “sender” e-mail visible in my mail box, becouse right now i see only adress of my server. I mean “www-data” in thunderbird. Sorry for my language. And thanks for any sugest.

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Hi,

I’m having some issues with PXS Mail. The problem is not that PXS is not working, it does. But PXS kills Markdown formatted text on my blog.
This problem is very old. Today i decided to give it another try, deactivated all plugins and Markdown worked. After activating all plugins one by one PXS is the only plug which kills Markdown.
Has anybody else discovered the same problems?

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I don’t know if it’s just me, but every time someone tries to contact me via this form, they are redirected to a page asking them to subscribe via email to my website.. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

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Hi,

is there a way to protect the mail-form against spam? or would it be possible to use captchas or something like this?

would it maybe possible to get this feature (spam-protection in any way) coded? (of course this would be paid!)

thanks,
daniel

btw.: nice plugin !!!

Comment by Online dizi izle — 31/1/2010 @ 5:03 am
Hi,

I’m having some issues with PXS Mail. The problem is not that PXS is not working, it does. But PXS kills Markdown formatted text on my blog.
This problem is very old. Today i decided to give it another try, deactivated all plugins and Markdown worked. After activating all plugins one by one PXS is the only plug which kills Markdown.
Has anybody else discovered the same problems?

Comment by lockerz — 1/2/2010 @ 3:18 am
Will let you know in a day or two when I “don’t” get more silly mail.

Comment by Eğitim Seti — 12/2/2010 @ 12:30 pm
i like to thank you for this fine plugin! and have one question, is it possible to use it 4 times on a website, if this site does have 4 different languages? just now the mailform only does work on the one current main- language of the blog … i hope there is a solution? cheers! C

Comment by Clemens — 4/3/2010 @ 8:36 am