How To Connect Contact Form To Godaddy Hosting Tutorials Lesson 18
www.1stoptutorials.com – Connect your contact form to your web hosting account. We are going to connect our contact form to Godaddy form mail script. This is very easy to do. Congratulations everyone you have just finished the contact form page.
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Hi Ali iam using same web-hosting service provider godaddy.com well i just created contact form now i will be checking how its thanks a lot for your tutorial they help me a lot — God bless you ..
“as they say, cooking on gas…” WTF???
Question: Im not so lucky,
I got webhostingpad and they don’t make it as easy as godaddy. I did everything you said, i asked by e-mail to webhostingpad
and they said to put in the dreamweaver action area “cgiemail”
but when i use the form, the site answers
NOT FOUND 404
The requested URL /cgiemail was not found on this server.
what is missing?
they have Fantastico..should i use this??
thanks Ali.
Hey thehognias, thanks for your mail. Those hidden fields you are talking about is where people hide keywords on there website to try and get better rankings, they always fail because google is more smart. Adding contact hidden fields you do not get penalized for at all. If you look at google shopping cart or paypal shopping cart they are all hidden fields that hold information about the cart, exactly the same as this, they hold information for your form
Awesome tutorial- one question…
I’ve read that google will penalize/block your page if its spider bots detect any hidden text… this doesn’t refer to the hidden forms explained here (recipient/redirect) do they? Thanks mate.
Thank you, that’s exactly what i was looking for!
thanks for all your help..your the man …thanks again.
Hey chance3111, thanks for your comments. Are you using godaddy if so then this should be it. What i would check is that you have the formmail in your ftp or back office. Also check which package you are using. Godaddy has windows package or linux package. Windows package uses the webformmail.asp at not the gdform.php. Let me know how you get on
Ali
Hello this is an extremely helpfull video but i have one issue i have completed everything and did the /gdform.php is there anything i pu t before this or after like an email?
Thank You
This was perfect. I use Godaddy too. I couldn’t figure out what i was doing wrong. Watched this and solved my problem.
Thank you very much for making this free.
fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much for taking the time to share for free!
you could have a look into free hosting and see what there is. It will have to allow php for it to work. Can you not contact the hosting to get the password. Let me know how you get on. Thanks
Ali
I love your tuts!
i got a domain name but i dont have any password or something. im only registered. how can i log in without a password?? and is there a free way to host the form??
Hey rainbowsnow7596, i have just uploaded a video on youtube with a free php script to make it all work, let me know how you get on
Ali
I don’t get any of it… I found another one before the Matts Script bu it didn’t work… I’m new to all the PHP stuff so… I can put in the textfields and all that no problem it’s just that I don’t kno how to connect it to my web host.
Ok I am deffently going to by a Domain because GoDaddy Offers Domains for like $10 a Year right?
How much does a Host cost?
up to you, depends if you want a free hosting or paid. Paid is always better because you have full control over what you do and plus it supports other languages, there are people who use free hosting but i am not so sure about that. I use godaddy for my hosting
Ali
Do I have to by a Domain or a host?
Generally they have instalation instruction. Have a look at one called matts script see how you get on with that one. Let me know
Ali
if you do find a script, where do you put it??
Hey rainbowsnow7596, thanks for the comment. Yeh you might run into a problem with free hosting because the probably do not allow php scripts. Have you done a search online for some different formmails. Let me know how you get on. Thanks rainbowsnow7596
Hey, I’m using 000webhost and I’m still trying all these website thingy so I’m using the free account and I can’t find form mail anywhere. I’m kind of stuck at that. I tried sending one, nothing was in the inbox and it didn’t redirect the page, is that partly because my form is not connected to my web host??
Hey TheWebsonic, thanks for the comment. Yeh godaddy does produce the email slowly you are right. The downside to this compared to php is that php is probably more secure and will allow more functions, let me know if you find anything fun. Thanks TheWebsonic
Hey Ali, great vid thanks very much!
One question: Are there any downsides to using this method instead of a PHP script?
One tip i would like to mention to anyone trying this, is that Godaddy takes around 15-20mins to process the form that you send. I thought my tests were not working, but after 20 mins i had all my test e-mails come through at once. Bit like Godaddys FTP. It works, but it’s on the slow side. Cheers all.
What you could do is find a formmail script that is hosted with someone and use that for the time being it will probably mean that a link to there website is put at the end of your form, but if you are thinking of getting a host at a later date then you can change it