Verifying Form Information

Example

Requiring a name, phone number, and email address in an information request form.

MGI Tags

  • mgiCheckField

Steps

  1. Create an information request form and thank you page to process the form.
  2. Open the thank you page in a text editor.
  3. Insert the mgiCheckField tags.
  4. Save the thank you page.
  5. FTP the form and thank you page to the web server running MGI.
  6. Complete and submit the form.

Step 1: Create an information request form and thank you page.

Create an information request form and thank you page to process the information request form and send an email. See the Beginner "Processing Forms to Email" Tutorial for the steps to create an information request form and thank you page. When you create the information request form, you may wish to mark fields that are required (with an asterisk or bolded text). For example,
Name*  
Company  
Address  
City  
State  
Zip  
Country  
Phone Number*  
Email Address*  
   Required Fields are Marked with an Asterisk (*)

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Step 2: Open the thank you page in a text editor.

Open the thank you page in a text editing program that allows you to modify the HTML of the page.

Step 3: Insert the mgiCheckField tags.

Insert your cursor above the mgiSendMail tag and enter an mgiCheckField tag and name parameter for each field that you want to verify. In the name parameter, enter the name of the form field to verify. For fields that should contain properly formatted email addresses, also insert the isEmail parameter. In the isEmail parameter, enter "Yes" to verify that the syntax of the information in that field is text followed by an "@" sign followed by text followed by a period followed by text (e.g., name@domain.com). The isEmail parameter will not verify the legitimacy of the email address itself. 
<mgiCheckField name="name">
<mgiCheckField name="phone">
<mgiCheckField name="email" isEmail="Yes">

<mgiSendMail to="info@domain.com" from="webmaster@domain.com" 
subject="Info Request" mailserver="mail.domain.com">
Information Request
*******************

   Name: <mgiFieldContent name="name">
Company: <mgiFieldContent name="company">
Address: <mgiFieldContent name="address">
   City: <mgiFieldContent name="city">
  State: <mgiFieldContent name="state">
    Zip: <mgiFieldContent name="zip">
Country: <mgiFieldContent name="country">
  Phone: <mgiFieldContent name="phone">
  Email: <mgiFieldContent name="email">

Comments:
<mgiFieldContent name="comments">
</mgiSendMail>

Step 4: Save the thank you page.

Save the changes you have made to the thank you page.

Step 5: FTP the form and thank you page to the web server running MGI.

Upload the information request form and thank you page from your local computer to the web server using an FTP program.

Step 6: Complete and submit the form.

Access the information request form page in a browser, complete the form and submit the form. If you enter at least a name, phone number and properly formatted email address, an email containing the form information is sent and the thank you page is displayed. If the name, phone number or email address is not entered, or if the email address is not entered in the proper syntax, then an error page listing the name of the required form field is displayed and the email (from mgiSendMail) is not sent.

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