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Simple Email Form Module

Lightweight email contact form with 9 configurable fields, including a configurable text area, a field for uploading attachments to the email, and a CAPTCHA based in Text_CAPTCHA from the PEAR library (included).

Summary of Features

- Six configurable fields: you configure the labels and sizes
- "From" field appears automatically (and is mandatory but label and size are configurable)
- "From" field is checked to make sure it's a valid email address (using regex, not a realtime check)
- Reply-To field can be configured and attached to outgoing email message
- Fields 1 - 5 can be set to "Active," "Required," or inactive in the module configuration, as needed
- Body of email message contains labels + user input data for active fields
- There is also an optional textarea field with configurable rows and columns
- You can configure a recipient of the submitted email form plus optional CC and/or BCC
- If you want multiple recipients for the To, CC or BCC fields, just specify as many as you want separated by spaces or commas
- Space between the labels and the input fields can be adjusted
- Module adds an optional CSS tag with a custom class you can configure
- If this is configured, this version also adds your_class_th, your_class_td, etc. within form
- Optional "Send Copy to Me" field
- Includes a field to upload an email file attachment
- Email attachments can be filtered by filename extension
- Max length of each field can be set (thanks toRui Castro Lobo!)
- You can specify a redirect URL when the form submits successfully
- Form fields can be set to retain info or to automatically be reset after successful form submission
- Anchor tag can be set so that upon form submission you see the form (thanks to Joanne Lewis!)
- Test mode lets you see the status of the email object as it is sent
- 19 language files are included: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portugese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish
- An optional image "Captcha" can be activated

All configuration is done by module manager: no complicated components to install!

Supports Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5!

NEW! Added "Anchor" tag
Thanks to Rob Smolenaars:
(1) Fixed bug where nothing in the "Reply-To" field caused an "Invalid Email Address" error
(2) Fixed bug where nothing in the "Allowed Extensions" field caused file uploads to fail

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2012-04-23
Reviews: 1
Simple Email Form works as expected. Just one tip: If you want to place 2 or more forms on a page, remember to use a separate writable captcha folder for each form on the host. I'd also like to know how to use re-Captcha instead.
2012-04-15
Reviews: 1
If you're new to Joomla and you need a simple but customisable form that's straightforward to get going with, this is it - easy to set up and use, plus the added bonus of some first rate support from the developer. Thanks Doug!
2012-03-28
Reviews: 2
Excellent, easy to install, easy to set up and use. Great work!

It is what it says it is.
2012-03-02
Reviews: 1
The module doesnt work for me. It only sends a copy to myself but not the email in the 'Send Result To' field. Any idea why?
Owner's reply

I have sent you a reply email privately but you did not respond. Please respond and I will see if I can help.

2012-02-17
Reviews: 1
This is a great module, however i am having issues with the colour of text... I have a black background, and the text is coming up grey, does anyone know how to change the colour to white?

Also, is there a way to modify positions of subject/email/name etc?

Thanks
Owner's reply

As of version 1.7.01 of the module, as long as you configre a CSS class for the module, all elements of the form will have a CSS class assigned to them. Please see the following article:
http://joomla.unlikelysource.net/index.php/menu-simple-email-form-q-and-q/18-simple-email-form-q-and-a-how-to-style-fields-css

2012-01-24
Reviews: 2
Great module with many options. The module is very simple to setup and has everything you need feedback form.
2011-12-21
Reviews: 1
This module is great.

I've got a question thow: is it works with cache enabled?
I've tried it with native joomla! cache enabled and nothing happens when I'm trying to send emails...
Owner's reply

Can you please send me an email separately to me at info @ unlikelysource.net? Should work with caching, if not I need to know what's going on so I can fix any issues, OK?

2011-12-04
Reviews: 3
This module works excellent! I've used it as a 'Submit Your Resume' tool and the ability to filter on file extension to upload is perfect. Lots of configurable options. Kudos to the developer!
2011-11-19
Reviews: 3
Hi there,

Is there a way to put a redirect url on the form after successful submission? I am using a funky module that will not allow for confirmation message. I would like it to redirect to a custom thank you page. Is this possible?

Thank you!
Owner's reply

Willkey -- Thanks for the suggestion. I'm in the process of testing the 1.6/1.7 version and can put that feature in. Thanks for the review!

2011-08-22
Reviews: 1
I've never posted a review so this is my first but now that I went through the trouble to create an account lookout.

The form says what it does and it's pretty simple to setup. Only thing I would have liked was a field to place like a description so you could post a quick reason why you want to complete the form above. I added it to mine to have a description field and a few extra style tags to make it fit my site better but it met the requirements, something short, a few fields of my own, I may even hide the subject field but it's pretty easy for even the novice like me to tweak that can be put anywhere I want on a page. See the example at http://www.4HealthyFamily.com
2011-08-06
Reviews: 7
I found the basic form generated by this extension worked well, but the layout of the form sucked. I couldn't get the "name of css class" to work at all. I emailed the developer and never heard back. There's not a word on their website about how you might do even the most basic styling of your form. I simply wanted to put some space between the rows in my form. The demo version shows some, but my "out of the box" form didn't so I can't really use the extension. So, unless you know PHP really well, your "out of the box" form is going to look very unprofessional. I suggest looking at a few others before you bother with this one.
Owner's reply

Normally I respond to comments in a timely manner, so very sorry to have let this one slip by! You can pretty easily stylize the form by filling in the "CSS Class" field in the module configuration. When then happens is that the form will be rendered in this format: label ... more rows ...

Accordingly, you can create a style along these lines:
.your_class {
// basic styling info
}
.your_class th {
// styles for labels
}
.your_class input {
// styles for input fields
}

2011-07-27
Reviews: 1
Since I test it, I use this module in every web page I make.
I used in module position (right or Left) and inside article for Contact Section using loadpostion.
I think the main pro is the ability to send mail attachments.
Excelent extension!
2011-05-06
Reviews: 9
This module really does ROCK!
Easy to install and easy to configure. Really does what it says on the tin.
2011-02-08
Reviews: 1
Doug, I just wanted to thank you for this great little module. I tried several before getting to this one and I must say that from my viewpoint, this was by far the easiest to setup and the most logical to configure.

Also, the coding is great with lots of explanations of what you did and why.

Everyone should be using this and giving Doug a big pat on the back!!!
2011-01-20
Reviews: 2
Good extension. Works well for what it does (and it's price ;))

The only features that I would like added to give it a 5 stars are:
- Possibility to set an object (done) AND make it read only (I use this to enable users to upload and send their resume, and I don't want them to change the object); even better would be to not show the object (but still send it with the email);
- It's a module but it's too big to be in a sidebar (correct); but, I didn't find how to link to it from the menu... There's no "module" menu (and it didn't have one), so I needed to create an empty article, link to it and say that the module only appears in this page; drawback: I have an empty section underneath the form...
- Of course, being able to really create a form (now we are limited to 5 text inputs and 1 text area) would be great... and to add some text to the body of the message (i.e. now, since I don't need any field other than the email and the file attached, I didn't show any custom field, so it sends me an empty message with an attached file. It would be nice to be able to add text to the email without having to have the user enter it (i.e. text area)).

But then again, it would be nice... I know how long it can be to create things and not a priority when we don't get paid for it...
2011-01-18
Reviews: 7
Excellent support from the developer. The module works out of the box and provides everything you need in a compact but feature rich package. Nice work !
2011-01-09
Reviews: 3
Thanks Doug. I downloaded the module and installed it and set it up. No problems at all from install to usage. I will mention here that if anyone wants to change any of the wording on the form to your own liking or to make the statements more compact, just go to text.php and make the changes there.

Even after giving this an excellent, I would like to see the text area, the field configurable to adjust the length of text that can be written per line (row) even when the text area is reduced in size, say for instance 60 characters per row and configurable downward regardless of the size of the text area on the form.
2010-12-28
Reviews: 4
Thank for the excellent form. It is a module but I chose to load it in content using the { loadposition modulename }. It works great for a quick contact form.
2010-12-09
Reviews: 16
I like it. It'll definitely do the job I need it to do, but it would be nice if I could have more then one set of customisable fields.

All the same installation is easy, captcha setup is easy, customisable fields are easy. All in all nice program but needs some extra development. I could see paying for a "pro" version of this software.
2010-11-07
Reviews: 2
I chose this extension because the joomla core one stopped working (invalid token error, no idea why =/ ) and I really enjoy it. I like the fact that you can create your own labels and fields, and choose whether or not they should be required.

However, I don't understand why the Subject line has to be prefilled? And why it's not possible to make the Subject required aswell. I would much rather prefer it to be empty, like the rest, and made required to be filled in by the user.

Also don't like the fact that you can't put the Subject just above Message, with additional fields above Subject instead of inbetween the two.
Example..
Subject:
Additional field 1:
Additonal field 2:
Message:

Would much rather prefer..
Additional field 1:
Additional field 2:
Subject:
Message:

Other than that, great product overall! Very easy to use. Thanks and keep up the good work!
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