Extension talk:EmailForm

Spam
Hello,

I am using your extension and thank you for that work.

What I am witnessing is that I get a lot of s p a m, plenty of messages with external links....

I am using the extension recaptcha on the website but as no page is edited for the form, this is not trigerred.

Would you have any idea/suggestion about this?

Thanks and have a good day

Guy Contact form
 * I haven't had any spam through my site, but you aren't the only one to report this. Can you tell if the spam is being submitted through the form, or if the email address is being picked up through the MediaWiki:EmailForm page? I'm starting to think the address should be stored in the code instead.
 * EHartwell 20:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree storing in the code is probably a better solution however we need to make sure that it does not limit us to only one target mail address or we end up with Extension:ContactPage, maybe storing addresses in an array and then somehow selecting which one to use through the MediaWiki:EmailForm page, perhaps by providing the array index or something?


 * This extension works like charm. Only one question. When i fill out the form and send the mail, the sender is wwwrun@something.com (apache), but not the sender i typed in the form. Is it possible to change this?
 * --89.212.65.33 14:54, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I had a big problem with spam being sent via this contact form so I added checks for valid email address being used as 100% of the spams I was getting didn't even bother to enter anything looking remotely like an email address in the field. It only required detecting the address validity in send_email and returning the error message text from render_email_field, contact me if you're interested in my changes.
 * VZ 15:05, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Same here, I added reCaptcha to the extension, you may contact me as well. There's still a catch to it, but someone might be able to figure it out. Also, IMHO this extension would need a major re-factoring. The code is, to be honest, awful. --Clausekwis 14:53, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Feature Request: Captcha
This extension really needs a built in captcha, because automated bots can easily send spam through this form. I've experienced this personally, since I tried it out on the Battlestar Wiki. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. 17:08, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * See above --Clausekwis 14:53, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Updated version
From the main page, moved here:

I replaced this new version with the old version. Odessaukrain 20:01, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

i cant see the hebrew emails
when users write to me in hebrew i cant see the email.. can u help me?

Error on send
Hi

I have somme pb with this extension :

The form is OK but the mail is not send and i have the following error message :

Warning: mail [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in D:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\extensions\EmailForm\EmailForm.php on line 223

Can somebody help me ? Thanks

Warnings and Blank Page after upgrading to 1.12.0
I originally installed EmailForm in MediaWiki 1.9.3. When I upgraded to 1.12.0, pages with Email forms on them stopped displaying. I now get the white page. The apache error log looks like:

[-timestamp-] [error] [client -IP-] PHP Notice: Undefined index:  0 in /var/www/html/w/includes/Parser.php on line 3430 [-timestamp-] [error] [client -IP-] PHP Notice: Undefined index:  1 in /var/www/html/w/includes/Parser.php on line 3430 [-timestamp-] [error] [client -IP-] PHP Notice: Undefined index:  2 in /var/www/html/w/includes/Parser.php on line 3430

It turns out that on this particular page I have 3 section headings in the and 0 section headings in the part.

The relevant code in Parser.php is:

I'm guessing that the code is choking on the conditionally rendered section headings? I don't know enough about PHP, MediaWiki, or this extension to fix this, or even to definitively say that is the problem.

The problem can be worked around by editing the page (append ?action=edit to the URL) and taking out all section headers. Putting in __NOEDITSECTIONS__ does not do the trick.

Any help is appreciated.

Tnabtaf 16:51, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Page name with namespace prefix
I can't seem to get page name prefixes to work (namespace): My Form works, but not HR:My Form.

Any way around this?

Great extension, by the way -- thanks!

"EmailForm is only active on protected pages" Message
Hi,

I need to do a survey and I'm trying to use this extension. For some reason I am not able to see the form.

Although I have added the page details to MediaWiki:EMailForm, the form page only shows the message: "EmailForm is only active on protected pages."

I've tried everything I could. Does anybody has any idea?

Thanks.

Fix for 1.8+
In order to work in newer versions of mediawiki I made the following changes. Commented lines are what used to be there.

LinkHolderArray problem since update on mediawiki 1.14
Undefined property: LinkHolderArray::$internals in path\includes\parser\LinkHolderArray.php in line 126

This is the message that i recieve in every page with a form after upgrading to mediawiki 1.14. With all previous versions (from 1.11 to 1.13 it worked perfectly). Can anyone help to find a quick solution?

thanks in advance best regards --TurboKanne 09:34, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Solution for the problem
You should apply to the above article "Fix for 1.8+".

70.134.109.42 02:08, 28 June 2009 (UTC) I'm going to fix the extension page.

Charset - how?
How i can add "Content-type: text/plain; charset=ХХХ" to final message? Some mailservers do not understand encoding correct... How can I set the character set of letters by hand? Thanks for your reply --81.200.28.116 11:06, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Form
How do I make the form so that when someone click 'send comments' without entering anything it says:

'''You have not filled in the following fields:
 * Topic
 * Name
 * Email
 * Message'''

86.136.108.50 14:32, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

FatalError
Hello. I have an error on a pages with email form after i have updated mediawiki to 1.14 version: Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /srv/www/w/includes/parser/LinkHolderArray.php on line 33 How can i fix it? Thanks. --79.142.85.9 20:05, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /home/.marabel/protofilm/protofilm.net/includes/parser/LinkHolderArray.php on line 33
I am receiving the same error as the inquiry above. I'm using version 1.15. Any help is appreciated.

thanks

--Kentongrey 14:38, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

bigger rows and cols?
How can I make the rows and cols bigger?

textarea: name="description" prompt="Problem description" rows="300" cols="300" Don't work

andrea 80.218.141.182 20:05, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Problems after upgrade to PHP 5.3
I am getting this error after my provider upgraded PHP to 5.3

Parameter 3 to renderEmailForm expected to be a reference, value given in /customers/vrold-bakker.dk/vrold-bakker.dk/httpd.www/includes/Parser.php on line 626

Please help

Thanks

--Tomas 15:32, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

RESOLVED

has to be changed to

--Tomas Jensen 09:10, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Please sign your posts. Ok? add these lines in the top off LocalSettings.php to enable php debugging. And read How to debug

--Tomas Jensen 10:20, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Setting Maxlength on Form Fields?
I want to set a maxlength on a form field but am having trouble figuring out the syntax. For example, simply sets the size of the space, but it doesn't stop anyone from typing in more than 140 characters. How would I get a EmailForm translation of  ? Any help would be appreciated.

March 15, 2010