[pmwiki-users] mailform variant 4?

[Tegan Dowling]

Ick.  Is this on anyone's radar to tackle?  Some in the user community
*must* have solved it for themselves, and just not shared, right?  I'm
guessing that this feature is missing because it's more of a CMS need than
something that would be used by a regular wiki?

>From a lay perspective, this doesn't look as if it should be that hard to do
-- it seems as if all the pieces have been developed, and that it's just
that no one's put them together in one place.  I need to
* use the Input recipe's syntax to create a form on a page (no problem),
* add that "captcha-like" thinger from CommentBoxPlus (or somewhere) to
verify the user is human (couldn't/shouldn't this be added to the Input
recipe, anyhow?),
* have some of the fields in the form on the page be standard email fields,
and
* have the "Submit" button send an email to an address that I hard-code into
the form, or the recipe configuration, or (best) that the form's author
pre-enters in an Input field that is "hidden".

Of the existing MailForm recipes, Mailform2 (
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Mailform2) seems to come closest to
this, but I can't for the life of me figure out how it works.
* There's a field "$Mailform2Sender", but the description for it says it's
"The Sender: header to attach to the message. Note that this value is
ignored except for installations on Windows." - So I infer that, for a wiki
installed on a linux server, this is useless, and won't show up as the
"From" field in the email?
* And then there's the field "$Mailform2Subject"; I can't see how the
contents of it get inserted into the "Subject" field of the email.  Since I
can't figure that out, I can't see how to add other Input fields that I
might want to use on the page.
* And I don't have a chance of figuring out how to add a Captcha-like thing.

So after 10 hours of experimenting with the PmWiki MailForm recipes, I'm now
looking at www.Wufoo.com - they have a pretty nifty utility that lets you
build a form (even lets you get at the css of it if you want), plug the
resulting html into a page, and store the messages it sends on their
servers, where you can read them, add comments to them, and look at
statistics and reports on them.  They offer a wufoo-branded, 10-field,
3-form account for free, and un-branded, larger accounts for fees that start
at $9/month.  Does anyone know of any alternatives?

Thanks for any thoughts about this.
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