Forms are used to allow your customers to send information back to you. The usual usage of forms within your online shop are to collect customers details, the checkout procedure for example is really just a collection of forms designed to gather your customers details.
You can create forms using HTML, your favourite web design program or through the ekmPowershop WYSIWYG editor.
Creating Forms with the WYSIWYG editor
The ekmPowershop editor will let you add forms to any of the webpages within your online shop, so go onto one of your webpages and click the icon.
Click within the editor where you want the form to start.
Click the Insert Form icon . A box will appear asking you for a form name, action and method. By default this is already setup for you, so click OK. You will now see a red box appear within the editor, this is your form. All the forms fields need to appear within this red box.
Ensure your cursor is within the red box and then click the field type you wish to add, in this example we will use a textbox... so click the textbox icon . You will be asked to give the field a name. You can also specify a default value for the form and various other settings. In this example just give the textbox a name of "companyname".
You will now have your webpage with the textbox added...
We now need to add a submit button so visitors can actually send you the input they have entered. So click the button icon . Enter the value as "Submit" and set the button type to be "Submit". Click OK and you should end up with a form like...
You have now created your first form. Simply click the update icon and test it.
Creating Forms using HTML
The basic syntax for a HTML form with ekmPowershop is…
With ekmPowershop you can make full use of our FormMail ability by submitting all your forms to "index.asp?function=FORMMAIL" and then everything in the form will be emailed to the email address(es) setup in your payment processing section.
You can also pass the following fields...
EmailFrom
If used the email that you receive will look like its come from this address. This makes it really easy to reply to the forms as they will go straight back to the person who submitted it.
You can specify that some of the fields are required and if they are not entered an error message will be displayed. To use it simply list all the fields you require in the format: [field1], [field2], etc...
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. A box will appear asking you for a form name, action and method. By default this is already setup for you, so click OK. You will now see a red box appear within the editor, this is your form. All the forms fields need to appear within this red box.
. You will be asked to give the field a name. You can also specify a default value for the form and various other settings. In this example just give the textbox a name of "companyname".
. Enter the value as "Submit" and set the button type to be "Submit". Click OK and you should end up with a form like...