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Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Mike Cherim

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:29:22 +0000

UPDATE: I've decided to close this post. The comments and questions have slowed to a trickle so I feel my contact form will suffice for further communication. So, if you want support and cannot find your answer herein (do check out previous entries), please feel free to contact me for support. If you're looking for support for the contact form plugin for WordPress, you're probably better off contacting Mike Jolley.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Mike Cherim

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:10:59 +0000

I don’t think it’d be that difficult to do, just find that operation in the main functions file and comment it out so it no longer checks that spam trap (it’s one of many so no big worries). That said, I think in the long run you’d be better off figuring out why it’s being tripped. Something’s off.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Michael Barrish

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:40:37 +0000

Mike, thanks for checking it out. In a strange way, I’m pleased to have stumped you.

Now, I know this flies in the face of the purpose of the form, but is there a way to disable Anti-Spam Trap 1? I’m expecting you to say, no, that the traps are baked into the PHP and would be a lot of work to “unbake,” but I figured I’d ask anyway. I’m stumped too.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Mike Cherim

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:19:50 +0000

Sorry, Michael. I really don’t know. The value is empty, I looked with styles off and source, so I really don’t know why it’d be tripping on you.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Michael Barrish

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:50:01 +0000

Hi Mike,

You helped me many years ago, and I’ve been using GBCF ever since!

Today I’m having a problem with version 2. It’s the “Anti-Spam Trap 1 Field Populated” message. As per http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=128#comment-7944 , I tried changing the $form_location variable to the contact page URL, to no avail.

The only thing possible cause I can think of is that I’m using a site preview domain (this is at Media Temple). I actually don’t know why that would be a problem because the URL is accessible from anywhere, but it’s the only thing that seems different about this setup.

The contact page is at http://oblivio.com.s18531.gridserver.com/contact/index.php

Thanks,
Michael

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Mike Cherim

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:07:01 +0000

Awesome.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Frank

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:37:42 +0000

Hey Mike, thanks for your quick reply.

It were does pesky apostrophs! I replaced them by ” & ‘ and got the form to work!

Thanks alot!

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Mike Cherim

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:48:04 +0000

Did you copy and paste what he wrote? I ask because there are bad characters that would cause and error. For example, an apostrophe or quote mark that’s curly/fancy, like this ‘ or ” will throw up an error compared to plain characters like ' or ". WordPress does the conversions so copying and pasting will cause issues unless it’s cleaned up to remove those bad characters.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Frank

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:28:42 +0000

Hi there, using V3.

I replaced all the eregi functions, but still have an error on my email check.

The solution Frank Hagan had, gave the following error on my script:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/g45223/acproducties.nl/HTML/gbcf-v3/files/functions.php on line 865

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Mike Cherim

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:47:26 +0000

You’re doing it right, but no, it doesn’t work with v3… sorry.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Javier

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:45:20 +0000

I have the script (GBCF v3) working fine but when I try to send the form to multiple addresses neither address gets an email. It should be like this on the config file right?

$send_email = “email1@gmail.com,email2@gmail.com”;

When i use one address it works fine.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Mike Cherim

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:01:58 +0000

Cool. You’re better off using utf-8 on your pages anyway so you should be good to go.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Dave

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:24:52 +0000

Thank you again, Mike.

Yeah, 2nd set of characters showed up in the same place when a file was published, but I don’t think it had anything to do with the “en” language file, instead, I think it happened when the form.php file was uploaded. However, when following your advice and uploading fresh files from your package numerous times over, they still appeared.

I have now pulled every hair out of my head trying to find any hidden spaces, characters, etc. in all files used, and have failed. I am not an attractive bald man. So, I resorted to changing the meta at the top of my contact page with charset=utf-8 (previously something like windows-1252).

That took care of the characters, they do not appear, and everything seems to work fine. But not sure how that will affect anything else as the site/page was working fine before. ? Thoughts? Thanks again!

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Mike Cherim

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:03:57 +0000

I’m not sure what that is but I’ve always used FTP for uploading files to my server. I prefer utf-8 and would recommend that for all of your web pages. Two sets of characters now… the second added when you open then saved the language file? If that’s the case, try downloading the form again, and upload the language file only, via FTP . Does that fix the issue?

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Dave

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:02:35 +0000

Thank you as always for your input and willingness to help. Now I have two sets of characters. ?

Yeah, figured it’s a space somewhere, but I cannot find a thing. Characters still there even when I upload your unedited files. Obviously I’m missing something or where it is really coming from… your files or my .php page.

Wondering about if a file gets messed up when publishing? Would publishing them through Expression or otherwise be the culprit, instead of ftp?

And, if I open form, en, or other files to edit, what format should they be saved in… ansi, unicode, utf-8? I’ve had issues caused by that too in the past.

Thanks again for any other ideas or where to look…

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Mike Cherim

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:37:07 +0000

It’s an invisible character seen as a space, sometimes. I’ve seen that before and it’s weird. I’m not positive what caused it last time, but it could have been someone had the language file open in Word or something like that, made changes, then saved it using that program. If that’s right, the language file would have needed to be opened in Notepad or other plain text editor and the offending spaces and characters like typographers’ quotes, m-dashes, and such removed, then re-saved using that program. If that isn’t it, I don’t know what it is or what caused it.

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Dave

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:01:53 +0000

So sorry, v3 for me. Also, characters appearing in all browsers.

Thanks for any ideas on where I can start looking or in what file…

Comment on New Contact Form Support Post by Dave

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:39:02 +0000

I have been using your script for years without issue, LOVE IT, THANK YOU!

But I just recently noticed the following characters appearing on the website within the form, right before the beginning of the required fields :

ï»¿

I cannot find these characters within any code in any file. They also appear on the success page after a form has been submitted. Our server/site has not been hacked to my knowledge.

Otherwise, the form works fine to my knowledge. Any ideas? Thank you!