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Email a form

Asked by: Bertrendy

Uncle! I am out of time and lost on what I am doing wrong in many places. I have been pulling pieces of code from everywhere I can find it, and I can't get this email form to work.


Goal of this page: Take the contents from the form and send them in the body of the email.

What is working: The email features works perfect, using godaddy smtp (hosted at godaddy) and when preset variables are set.  

What is not working/what I cant figure out:
      I need to get the contents of the form into the email function
      I need to get all the variables into the email body. (see the code, its partially commented out)
      I need to post back a message to the user that their message has gone through successfully or if it has failed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I am an advanced-novice at vb.net so please be as clear as possible. Thanks!!!!

<script runat="server">
 
Sub TiggerEmail(sender as Object, e as EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
	SendMail (Request.Form("fname") + Request.Form("contacttime") + Request.Form("email") + Request.Form("phone"))
	end sub
 
 
 
'QUESTION 1 - HOW TO GET MY FORM VALUES INTO THIS SUB 
Private Sub SendMail(ByVal fname As String, ByVal phone As String, ByVal email As String, ByVal contacttime As String)
 
        'Set the HostName
        Dim host As String = "SMTP SERVER"
        Dim ToEmail As String = "joe@joe.com"
		Dim FromEmail As String = "bill@bill.com"
 
        Dim Subject As String = "Contact submission"
		
			'QUESTION 2 - HOW DO I GET THSE VALUES INTO THE BODY?
		Dim body as string = "Name: " '& fname & "   Phone: " & phone & "    Email: " & email & "     Contact Time: " & contacttime
 
		Dim Result As String = ""
 
 
        Dim Email As New System.Net.Mail.MailMessage(FromEmail, ToEmail)
		
 
		Dim mailClient As New System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient(host)
		mailClient.Host = host
		'mailClient.EnableSsl = True
		
        Email.Subject = Subject
        Email.Body = body
 
        
        'Dim port As Int32 = 465  ' WITH SSL
		Dim port As Int32 = 80	' NO SSL
              
        Dim authenticationInfo As _
          New System.Net.NetworkCredential( _
           "username", _
           "password")
 
        mailClient.UseDefaultCredentials = False
        mailClient.Credentials = authenticationInfo
       
        Try
		  mailClient.Send(Email)
		  Result = "OK"
		  
		  Catch ex As Exception
		  
			Response.Write("Unable to send email, the following error has occurred:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
		 ex.Message)
		 
		End Try
 
 
        Email.Dispose()
        mailClient = Nothing
		Host = Nothing
        GC.Collect()
 
    End Sub
 
</script>
<BODY>
 
<table width="300px" height="200px">
	<tr>
		<td>        
 
	<!-- QUESTION 3 - How do I post back a message that says their submission went through?  -->
   	<div>
    	<p>Your submission has been sent successfully.</p>
    </div>
    
      <form id="contactform" runat="server">
    
    
    <div>
	    <asp:ValidationSummary
    		ID                  = "Summary"
            runat               = "server"
            DisplayMode         = "BulletList" /></div>
    
    
    
    <div>First Name:
    	<asp:TextBox ID="fname" runat="server"></asp:TextBox></div>
    	<asp:RequiredFieldValidator
        	ID                  = "rfname"
        	runat               = "server"
            ControlToValidate   = "fname"
            ErrorMessage        = "Name Required"
            Display             = "None" />
    <div>Phone: Ex.(222-222-2222 x22)
    <asp:TextBox ID="phone" runat="server"></asp:TextBox></div>
    	<asp:RegularExpressionValidator
    		ID                  = "regPhone"
            runat               = "server"
            ControlToValidate   = "phone"
            Display             = "None"
            ErrorMessage        = "Invalid Phone Number"
            ValidationExpression= "((\(\d{3}\) ?)|(\d{3}-))?\d{3}-\d{4}( x\d{0,})?" />
                                
    <div>Email address:
    	<asp:TextBox ID="email" runat="server"></asp:TextBox></div>
        <asp:RegularExpressionValidator
        ID                  = "regEmail"
        runat               = "server"
        ControlToValidate   = "Email"
        Display             = "None"
        ErrorMessage        = "Invalid Email"
        ValidationExpression= "\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*" />
             
    
    <div>
    	<asp:DropDownList ID="contacttime" runat="server">
        <asp:ListItem Value="9am_12pm">9am-12pm</asp:ListItem>
        <asp:ListItem Value="12pm_3pm">12pm-3pm</asp:ListItem>
        <asp:ListItem Value="3pm_6pm">3pm-6pm</asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList></div>
    </div>
    
    
  		<asp:button id="btnSubmit" runat="server" OnClick="SendMail" Text="Submit" />
  
            </form>
		</td>
  </tr>                         
</table>
  
</BODY>

                                  
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2009-08-15 at 19:55:20ID24655845
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Answers

 

by: Mortaza_doulatyPosted on 2009-08-15 at 21:44:20ID: 25107802

>>'QUESTION 1 - HOW TO GET MY FORM VALUES INTO THIS SUB
Use:
SendMail (fname.Text, contacttime.Text,  email.Text,  phone.Text)

And add the above line to the click event of sumbit button.

>>'QUESTION 2 - HOW DO I GET THSE VALUES INTO THE BODY?
Dim body as string = "Name: " & fname & "   Phone: " & phone & "    Email: " & email & "     Contact Time: " & contacttime


 

by: BertrendyPosted on 2009-08-16 at 08:23:14ID: 25109247

Thanks for your help.

I tried this:

SendMail (fname.Text, contacttime.Text,  email.Text,  phone.Text)

and got this?
Compiler Error Message: BC30577: 'AddressOf' operand must be the name of a method (without parentheses).


I tried this:
Dim body as string = "Name: " & fname & "   Phone: " & phone & "    Email: " & email & "     Contact Time: " & contacttime

and got this:

Compiler Error Message: BC30452: Operator '&' is not defined for types 'String' and 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox'.

Is it something I am doing wrong?

 

by: Mortaza_doulatyPosted on 2009-08-16 at 11:53:12ID: 25109925

About your first error:
Change it to:

SendMail (fname.Text, contacttime.SelectedItem.ToString(),  email.Text,  phone.Text)

About the next one:
Change function proto-type to this:
Private Sub SendMail(ByVal strFName As String, ByVal strPhone As String, ByVal strEmail As String, ByVal strContactTime As String)

Then:
Dim body as string = "Name: " & strFName & "   Phone: " & strPhone & "    Email: " & strEmail & "     Contact Time: " & strContactTime

 

by: Mortaza_doulatyPosted on 2009-08-16 at 11:55:43ID: 25109940

>>Is it something I am doing wrong?

Yes, the name of controls (e.g. fname) are the same with functions arguments.

 

by: BertrendyPosted on 2009-08-16 at 13:24:34ID: 25110328

Thank you. I implemented those and I still get the following error.

BC30577: 'AddressOf' operand must be the name of a method (without parentheses).

Line 136:        <asp:button id="btnSubmit" runat="server" OnClick="SendMail (fname.Text, contacttime.SelectedItem.ToString(),  emailadd.Text,  phone.Text)" Text="Submit" />

note I changed the var "email", to "EmailAdd" in all variables.

 

by: Mortaza_doulatyPosted on 2009-08-16 at 21:56:21ID: 25111692

>>OnClick="SendMail (fname.Text, contacttime.SelectedItem.ToString(),  emailadd.Text,  phone.Text)"

You have to remove the above line from server tag, it should be something like:
<asp:button id="btnSubmit" runat="server"  Text="Submit"/>

Then in your code section, you should have:

    Protected Sub btnSubmit_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSubmit.Click
        SendMail(fname.Text, contacttime.SelectedItem.ToString(), emailadd.Text, phone.Text)
    End Sub
                                              
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by: BertrendyPosted on 2009-08-17 at 12:14:36ID: 25117423

That worked! Awesome! Thank you so much!

Last thing. I need to post back a status message once the message has been sent. Something like "your message has been sent", or "Your message has not been sent do to an error". I'd like to have it appear right above the form.  How do I do that?

Thanks again!

 

by: Mortaza_doulatyPosted on 2009-08-17 at 13:21:42ID: 25118000

Simply place a "Label" control where you want your message to appear. Change it's Text property to blank, then you can set it's Text property to display any message you want.

 

by: BertrendyPosted on 2009-08-17 at 22:29:22ID: 31616198

Thanks a ton!

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