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How to eliminate "realname" and "email" from formMail.php (tectite.com) results.

When I submit a test form the return email has the following message above the actual form results. The form results are actually good. They just have this error message above them:

"To: doug@pricelearman.com
From: FormMail@www.familytofamilyseniorcare.com

The following error occurred in FormMail :
missing_fields
Error=The form required some values that you did not seem to provide.
Your email address
Your name

email: wD@GMAIL.COM
realname: wefRwqe"

Tectite doc's indicate this info can be excluded from the form results by using:

<input type="hidden" name="mail_options" value="Exclude=email,realname">
but this doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone know how to delete this content from the form results? I have attached a pdf of an actual results email. The formMail script is at http://www.familytofamilyseniorcare.com/sendForm.php. The HTML form is on the page at http://www.familytofamilyseniorcare.com/contact.htm.
FormMail-results.pdf

Ray Paseur

I've never heard of anyone using Tectite. Please post the PHP source code here in the code snippet so we can see what is going on.

There appear to be two HTML forms in your contact.htm page. The bottom one, for Google Maps, is probably irrelevant. The top one, stripped of all the cruft, contains this.

<form class="form item" method="post" action="http://www.familytofamilyseniorcare.com/sendForm.php" name="contactForm">
<input type="hidden" name="env_report" value="REMOTE_HOST,REMOTE_ADDR,HTTP_USER_AGENT,AUTH_TYPE,REMOTE_USER" />
<input type="text" class="form-control input-lg" name="inputName" id="inputName" placeholder="name:" required>
<input type="email" class="form-control input-lg" id="inputEmail" name="inputEmail" placeholder="email:" required  >
<input type="text" class="form-control bfh-phone input-lg" data-format="+1 (ddd) ddd-dddd"  id="inputPhone" name="inputPhone" placeholder="phone:" >
<textarea name="comments" id="comments" class="form-control" placeholder=" how can we help you?" rows="4"></textarea>
<button id="contactButton" type="submit" class="btn btn-default btn-md">SEND</button>
<input type="hidden" name="recipients" value="request@familytofamilyseniorcare.com, doug@pricelearman.com" />
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Message From A Website Visitor" />
<input type="hidden" name="derive_fields" value="email=inputEmail,realname=inputName" />
<input type="hidden" name="mail_options" value="Exclude=email,realname;FromAddr=Website Visitor">
</form>

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As you can see, the mail_options control contains value="Exclude=email,realname;FromAddr=Website Visitor". This seems to conflict with what you wrote about Tectite docs, to wit, value="Exclude=email,realname" so my first recommendation would be to try using this input control exactly as Tectite recommends, without the extra stuff.

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dlearman1

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Ray... Thanks for your comments. We have been using formmail.php for at least a century. It is old and out-of-date, but then it only has to interface with nothing more demanding than email But, you're right we should be looking into a more current product. Do you have any in mind worth checking out?

How to eliminate &quot;realname&quot; and &quot;email&quot; from formMail.php (tectite.com) results.

How to eliminate "realname" and "email" from formMail.php (tectite.com) results.