New DooBox Contact Page Stack

Ricinport · May 2012

Hi

I received a notification yesterday of a new contact page stack from DooBox that uses html.

I don't know the about its' benefits over php but as I was looking for something more flexible than RW's built in contact page I thought it might be worth a look.

I note this is for use with a RW html page but being a stacks only type person using the FreeStacks theme I wondered if I could place the DooBox contact page stack in a Stacks 2 page by placing it in the standard html stack that comes with Stacks 2.

I was going to ask this direct but the DooBox site is currently unavailable.

Any advice great fully received as always.

Cheers

Ric

Ed Brenner · May 2012

Hi Ric,

I don't have Gary's new stack, but why not just drop the stack onto the Stacks page in the FreeStack Theme?

Or are you trying to do something different with it?

mitchellm · May 2012

Ric: It seems like you are way over thinking this. You can drop the mail stack into a Stacks page all on its lonesome: it doesn't need to be placed inside an HTML stack.

And, while this stack works with HTML extension pages, it also works with PHP extension pages. So if you are using a page that needs to be PHP due to some of the other stacks on the page, this contact stack will still work perfectly fine.

Ricinport · May 2012

Hi Ed and Mitch

You are, of course, both stating the 'bleeding obvious' that I always seem to miss. (You may recall my vertical line question).
At the end of the day it is just a stack after all, so of course it's designed for a Stacks page. It just threw me a bit in the description talking about an html page.
Thanks to you both.
I need to think before I post.

Ric

Ed Brenner · May 2012

Hi Ric,

No problem. I think Gary's new stack is a nice addition. Some folks have to struggle with certain Host Providers when it comes to 'php' Contact Forms.

Gary's provided a simple way to use an 'HTML' type form to get the job done.

Gille · May 2012

I like Gary's new stack very much. I've struggled many times with contactforms (3rd party) and this one is very solid. But I miss the possibility for turn off (and on) the "requiered" fields + changing the text of the error messages (i'm belgian , so this would be better in my own language). Maybe an extra field or 2 (optional) would be great also :-)

Gille

rich_h · May 2012

Hi all, can anyone please help me with the following.
Using latest stacks and DooBox contact.
I seem to get an error when I click send.
Please feel free to give it a go below.
I have entered an email address in contact settings.
Thanks
Richard

http://www.angiesmiracles.co.uk/contact/index.html

Gille · May 2012

Very odd indeed. Did you have another contactform before doobox's? If yes, see if there isn't a .php file left in the folder (ftp) and it's best to "re-publish all pages" to have a clean slate.

Doobox · May 2012

Hi Rich,

Did you contact me a support about this yet..?
If not give me a shout and i will find out why this is not working for you :-)

Kind regards
Gary
Doobox

blue4miles · May 2012

This stack solved a problem for me - I used the contact stack in Gary's Teleporter stack to get a neat compact form in the sidebar of a page. I'd been using @import before and having to put code in the PREFIX section of the inspector etc.

Worked a treat and so easy to set up - email coming through etc.

Only one thing puzzles me; on the email from the form I get two field headings.

So:

NameName: Joe Bloggs
emailemail: Joe@etc.

anyone else have this?

Doobox · May 2012

@Blueformiles
I believe this may be because you are using it with the teleporter stack. As there will now be 2 instances of the form on the page, one hidden.
I will run some tests and see if i can add some logic to the contact form stack to enforce only one submission.

blue4miles · May 2012

Ahhhhh of course... thankyou.

mtmfx · May 2012

I bought it and I think its great! Hats off to Gary his stacks are easy to use and fill a void that many of us have. Thanks!

m.m · June 2012

The stack has me confused.
I was happy when I heard that it is possible to have a contact form in a html page.

Text on doobox Stacks Store:
"The HTML Contact Form Stack: Works without PHP page
WORKS IN STANDARD HTML STACKS PAGE. NO NEED TO CHANGE YOUR PAGE EXTENSION TO PHP."

But the "HTML Contact Form Stack" requires a php webhosting server in the background. And there is no word about that, it annoys me.

Matthias

mitchellm · June 2012

. . . and how did you manage to find a web hosting serve without PHP service? That's standard these days.

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