NAME CGI::ContactForm - Perl extension for generating a web contact form SYNOPSIS use CGI::ContactForm; contactform ( recname => 'John Smith', recmail => 'john.smith@domain.com', smtp => 'smtp.domain.com', styleurl => '/style/ContactForm.css', ); DESCRIPTION This module generates a contact form for the web when the routine "contactform()" is called from a CGI script. Arguments are passed to the module as a list of key/value pairs. "CGI::ContactForm" sends a well formated (plain text format=flowed in accordance with RFC 2646) email message, with the sender's address in the "From:" header, and the sender gets a "bcc" copy. If the email address stated by the sender is invalid, the failure message is sent to the recipient address, through which you know that you don't need to bother with a reply, at least not to that address... Arguments "CGI::ContactForm" takes the following arguments: Default value ============= Compulsory ---------- recname (none) recmail (none) smtp (none) Optional -------- styleurl (none) returnlinktext 'Main Page' returnlinkurl '/' Additional arguments, intended for forms at non-English sites ------------------------------------------------------------- title 'Send email to' name 'Your name:' email 'Your email:' subject 'Subject:' message 'Message:' reset 'Reset' send 'Send' erroralert 'Fields with %s need to be filled or corrected.' marked 'marked labels' thanks 'Thanks for your message!' sent_to 'The message was sent to %s with a copy to %s.' INSTALLATION Installation with Makefile.PL Type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Manual Installation * Download the distribution file and extract the contents. * Designate a directory as your local library for Perl modules, for instance /www/username/cgi-bin/lib * Create the directory "/www/username/cgi-bin/lib/CGI", and upload "ContactForm.pm" to that directory. * In the CGI scripts that use this module, include a line that tells Perl to look for modules also in your local library, such as use lib '/www/username/cgi-bin/lib'; DEPENDENCIES "CGI::ContactForm" requires these modules, available at CPAN: Mail::Sender Text::Flowed It also requires direct access to an SMTP server. If "Mail::Sender" and "Text::Flowed" need to be installed manually, you shall create "/www/username/cgi-bin/lib/Mail" and "/www/username/cgi-bin/lib/Text" and upload "Sender.pm" respective "Flowed.pm" to those directories. EXAMPLES An example CGI script ("contact.pl") and a style sheet ("ContactForm.css") are included in the distribution. Note that the style sheet typically needs to be located somewhere outside the cgi-bin. VERSION HISTORY v1.0 (Feb 12, 2003) Additional arguments added that makes it possible to have the form display non-English text. Warnings enabled. v0.4 (Feb 9, 2003) Error alert message added. Also "ContactForm.css" was modified for this reason. Simple test script included in the distribution. v0.3 (Feb 7, 2003) Check of email syntax modified (hopefully now closer to RFC 822). Better structured code. v0.2 (Feb 5, 2003) Referer check in order to only accept data input from the generated form. Improved email validation. v0.1 (Feb 3, 2003) Initial release. LATEST VERSION The latest version of "CGI::ContactForm" is available at: http://search.cpan.org/author/GUNNAR/ http://www.gunnar.cc/contactform/ AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright © 2003 Gunnar Hjalmarsson http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.