INSTALLATION / GETTING STARTED
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1. PHP 4.1 or greater needs to be
installed at your website server location.
2. Naturally enough you will
need to create a form on your website which passes the required information on
to HiQ Formmail. If unsure how to create a form, you could try utilizing a
product such as NVU which is a simple to use, free open source WYSIWYG html
editor as it includes an easy to use form creation facility. Regardless of this
issue, HiQ Formmail includes a test form in the zip file so you can test
HiQ’s functionality whether you have created your form yet or not.
3. When creating your own form, note that the Action needs to point to
the HiQ Formmail file, HiQFM.php. ie.
form
enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="HiQFM.php"
name="formname"
1. Download the zip file.
2. HiQ Formmail needs to reside in the same folder as your form. You
may wish to create a new folder and place your form and the extracted contents
of the HiQ zip file into this folder.
3. If not already created as part
of the extraction process, create a folder below your HiQ folder for the
temporary files HIQ creates. This folder must be called “TEMP_FILES”
– note the capitals and underscore and make sure your folder is called
exactly this.
4. Using notepad, notetab or your preferred text editor,
edit the configuration file, HiQFMConfig.conf. To start with, make only the one
change. Change the [recipient] value to be your email address. Save the change
and exit your editor.
5. Next step is put all of this online. You will
need to create the HiQ folders(directories) on your server and will need to
upload all of the HiQ files to the appropriate directory on the server.
6. To test simply go to the supplied test page ie.
http://www.yourwebsite.com/yourHiQfolder/test.htm. To keep things simple
initially, do not change any of the values on the form, simply submit it and
see if it your submission is successful and a result gets to your email.
7. Once you have proved the basics are working you can then go on to
test with your own form(s). The one copy of HiQ Formmail will work for multiple
forms if both forms have the same required fields (see below for details on all
fields in the HiQ Formmail configuration file (HiQFMConfig.conf).
8.
You may of course customize the various header and footer files
er_header_def.htm er_footer_def.htm header_def.htm footer_def.htm to match in
with the rest of your website.
9. Once you have got HiQ working in a
manner you are happy with you may then move forward and explore setting up HiQ
to run in safe mode. etc etc After that I think the stuff regarding the HiQ
Formmail configuration file options and then following that the optional and
advanced setups should follow. I guess my problem was that the instructions
didn't tell me specifically what I had to do. Anyhow, once again, I really
appreciate you and your product and thank you very much.
HIQ FORMMAIL PREREQUESITES
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