ASP.Net Web Form

[apa1exakis]

I am trying to create a contact form with asp.net but am having a problem. I can get a simple form that sends the person email address, their name and message but thats it. I dont know how to add additional fields such as a phone nuumber or their address. Could someone lend some assistance? Thanks

[Josh]

Just append them to the body... how are you sending the mail? Via System.Web.Mail or by another means? Post your code...

[apa1exakis]

I know how to add more fields to the actual visual form but I am having problems because I dont know how to alter the asp.net code so those addtional fields send their information as well:

<% @Import Namespace="System.Web.Mail" %>

<script language="vb" runat="server">

Sub contactUS_Click(sender as Object, e as EventArgs)

'Create an instance of the MailMessage class

Dim objMM as New MailMessage()

objMM.To = "myemail@email.com"

objMM.From = email.Text

'If you want to CC this email to someone else

'objMM.Cc = "myemail@email.com"

'email format. Can be Text or Html

objMM.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html

'Set the priority - options are High, Low, and Normal

objMM.Priority = MailPriority.Normal

'Set the subject

objMM.Subject = "Contact Us"

'Set the body

objMM.Body = message.text

'Smtp Server

SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "xx.xx.net"

'Send the message

SmtpMail.Send(objMM)

panelSendEmail.Visible = false

panelMailSent.Visible = true

End Sub

</script>

[valescy]

add & symbol and enter texts or texts from texbox

e.g objMM.Body=message.Text & textbox.text

Or

objMM.Body=message.text & "something that you want to add" & textbox.text

if you want to add your text in different lines add vbcrlf

objMM.Body=message.text & "something that you want to add" & vbcrlf & textbox.text

[apa1exakis]

I just continue to add as many & plus textbox.text as needed right? How do i add a drop down box? Is it xxx.dropdown? I dont know that command. Thanks for the help!

[valescy]

you mean the value of dropdown? because you cannot add the dropdown. if you want the value is dropdown.selectedvalue for the value or dropdown.selecteditem.tostring the text that shows in the dropdown remember that the selectedvalue property has to be assigned by you which filed to be used in the properties of the dropdown

[apa1exakis]

I keep getting errors when i use the following

objMM.Body=message.Text & textbox.text

Error Message:

Compilation Error

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: BC30469: Reference to a non-shared member requires an object reference.

Source Error:

Line 23:

Line 24: 'Set the body

Line 25: objMM.Body=message.Text & textbox.text

Line 26: 'Smtp Server

Line 27: SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "xx.xxx.net"

[valescy]

the name textbox.text is an example.obviously you don't have a textbox named textbox

[apa1exakis]

Thanks for replying despite my stupidity. I got that to work but when I use vbcrlf to keep each field information on its own line in the email it only puts a space between them such as "kevin xx@xx.com 555-555-5555" instead of

kevin

xx@xx.com

etc

[valescy]

can you post the code where vbcrlf is included?

[apa1exakis]

<% @Import Namespace="System.Web.Mail" %>

<script language="vb" runat="server">

Sub contactUS_Click(sender as Object, e as EventArgs)

'Create an instance of the MailMessage class

Dim objMM as New MailMessage()

objMM.To = "acousticalexakis@msn.com"

objMM.From = email.Text

'If you want to CC this email to someone else

'objMM.Cc = "xx@xx.com"

'email format. Can be Text or Html

objMM.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html

'Set the priority - options are High, Low, and Normal

objMM.Priority = MailPriority.Normal

'Set the subject

objMM.Subject = "Contact Us"

'Set the body

objMM.Body = name.text & vbcrlf & message.text & vbcrlf & phone.text

'Smtp Server

SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "xx.xxx.net"

'Send the message

SmtpMail.Send(objMM)

panelSendEmail.Visible = false

panelMailSent.Visible = true

End Sub

[+chorpeac MVC]

Instead of vbcrlf, can you use "<BR>" for HTML and "\n" for text?

[ev0|]

"\r\n"

[Josh]

What I usually use is:

Environment.NewLine()

=D

[+chorpeac MVC]

  MyServerGuy said:

What I usually use is:

Environment.NewLine()

=D

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Now that is clever. I have never see that one before.

I was excited when I was first introduced to string.empty. Now I like environment.newline. :woot:

[apa1exakis]

How would i integrate environment.newline into my code? My alterations created errors

objMM.Body=message.Text & textbox.text

[Josh]

LOL @ chorpeac!!! It's more scalable since it changes the "new line character" depending on what the current operating environment is. And at first thought you wouldn't think that'd be a big deal, but always try to make your apps as scalable and portable as humanly possible (and I'm just stating that for anybody else that reads this as I know that you "know your stuff" because I've been here for quite some time as well lol).

You could use it like this:

MailMessage.Body = txtMyMessage.Text & Environment.NewLine() & Now().ToString()

(or similar)

Or:

dim NL as object = Environment.NewLine()
MailMessage.Body = txtMyMessage.Text & NL & Now().ToString()

which is my favorite since very seldom are concatenated strings plain and simple like that... so it produces alot less typing which in turn makes things easier to read. It also makes it simpler to change between formats. For example, in the case of using the mailmessage object, if you are using text and decide to switch to HTML then all you have to do is change that variable to:

dim NL as string = "<br />"

At least I think it's cleaner all the way around :)

[apa1exakis]

Its still listing all of the information in the sent email on one line.

'Set the body

dim NL as object = Environment.NewLine()

objMM.Body = name.text & message.text & NL & Now().ToString() & phone.text

[Josh]

Have you specified the emailformat to be TEXT instead of HTML? It sounds to me like you're sending in HTML.

[apa1exakis]

Okay, my settings were set to HTML so I used the code to send it in HTML:

dim NL as string = "<br />"

objMM.Body = name.text & NL & Now().ToString()& phone.text & NL & Now().ToString() & "Message" & message.text

I still have two remaining problems and hopefully they are easy to solve.

1. When i receive the email from the submitted form each line now has a date that I dont want before the information, for example:

Kev

11/8/2005 10:01:15 AM555-555-5555

11/8/2005 10:01:15 AMMessagetest3

2. I added "Message" & message.text to show which field is which. Is this the best method for doing that? Is there a way to add any html formattin to this such as bold and a space to seperate the field name and the text in the sent email?

Thank you very much for all of your help. I truly appreciate it.

[Josh]

LOL!!! That's hilarious!!! It's because you used my example, and forgot to remove

Now().ToString()

:rofl:

[Josh]

:pinch: DOH!!! Double post... Neowin lag FTW

[apa1exakis]

Haha wow. Why does "Now().ToString()" produce a date and time? Also is it possible to have html formatting such as bold when the form is sent to my email?

[Josh]

Of course... wrap whatever you want in <b></b> or <strong></strong> tags...

Now() is a DateTime object which reflects the current system date and time when called. ToString() is a method that when called performs a cast/conversion of the object to a string format. Hence, when used via concatenation, it outputs the current date and time.

There are other methods for this object that can be used as well... ToLongDateString(), ToShortDateString(), so on and so forth (but you can't just make them up... you must use predefined methods, of course, unless you want to begin writing your own objects which I would say is well worth your time for getting a good understanding of how programming really works - IMHO tho, and only my opinion).

[apa1exakis]

Alright the form is up and working all thanks to you! :) There are still minor issues i want to solve if your able to help. When the form produces an error such as when someone doesnt enter their email address i am sent to an error page that includes "Server Error in '/' Application." Is there a way to not allow the form to be submitted if someone doesnt fill in the email field or just to have the form foward to an error page that i can create to let the user know they need to go back and fill in the email box?

[Josh]

For just checking if the field is not blank you want to use RequiredFieldValidators. Like so, just make the appropriate changes...

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvOne" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtTextBoxNameToValidate" EnableClientScript="true" Display="Dynamic" ErrorMessage="This is where the error message goes.  PUT TEXT IN THIS FIELD, N00B!!!" />

However, if you want to check to make sure that the information entered follows a specific format, then you'll have to use the RegularExpressionValidator. Now, heed my notice, I will not help you with regular expressions. Supporting my own software keeps me busy enough with these things sometimes, so not to be rude but I will not support yours ;) I think you know where I'm getting at. But here's an example anyway. BTW, you can use Google to find any regular expression you may ever need. So I'm not saying don't use this, just dont ask me to write/modify regex's for you (regular expressions).

<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="revIDName" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtControlToValidate" EnableClientScript="true" Display="Dynamic" ValidationExpression="RegularExpressionToUse" ErrorMessage="Again, where the error message goes  =D" />

Then, in your submit routine, just make sure that you check to see if your page is valid...

Sub SendMail (ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    If NOT(Page.IsValid) Then Exit Sub
...
End Sub