Comments on: CakePHP Contact Form – Quick and Dirty

By: CJL999

CJL999 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:00:37 +0000

Hi glen, maybe you should change the
$this->Email->to = ‘To yourname ‘;
or change the cake’s default email (test@test.com) to any mail you want
and dont forget to enable php_openssl extension before send your mail.

By: glen hughes

glen hughes — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:36:12 +0000

I am attempting to use this but am consistently getting a “mail not sent” error. When I add debug($this->data);exit; after the $this->Session->setFlash(‘Mail Not Sent’); I get

Array
(
[Contact] => Array
(
[name] => test
[email] => test@test.com
[subject] => testing
[message] => Test email message
)

)
So it appears that all fields are working properly. Is there a method to debug this and figure out why its not being sent?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

By: BiBi

BiBi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:25:07 +0000

Hi, Anoop, you can use $this->Model->saveAll($data);

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By: DW

DW — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:30:52 +0000

You are a legend, I’ve had so many issues getting these annoying contact forms to work.

Cheers

By: rubendelafuente

rubendelafuente — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:57:21 +0000

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By: Anoop

Anoop — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:18:03 +0000

Hi ,

I was trying to figure it out to how to save a form data to two tables .. like username and password to one and the other details to another one …. is there something in cake to do that

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:35:39 +0000

Hi Kevin

I know what you mean about CAPTCHAs – lots of them I can’t get right first time and I’ve got good eyesite – accessibility aside they just add an extra (unnecessary) element to the page.

I find that hidden form fields work really well against automated spam – i.e. if the a field that shouldn’t be completed (because it’s normally hidden) gets completed the message can just be dumped or sent to an alternate email just for spam. When you add things like lists of banned words to test against and a check based on the number of links in a message and you can soon build something pretty comprehensive.

As somebody who uses wordpress I have to agree with you about Askimet – its is brilliant, have not tried to hook it up to Cake yet – although I do plan to.

John

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By: Kevin Lloyd

Kevin Lloyd — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:48:27 +0000

From what I can see, he uses the var $_schema member variable, where as I override the schema() function. No real diff, since one of the things the function does is return _schema.

Also, he uses $this->RequestHandler->isPost() to check for a POST to the server (a lil’ added security. It will prevent the more primitive methods of spam).

Last thing:
Snook uses: $this->Contact->set($this->data);
as apposed to $this->Contact->create($this->data);

I used the create() because that’s what I’ve been using for regular data related functions in controllers. Create calls set() so, everything still gets done.

For spam though, I think you’re going to need something more robust. There are some implimentations of Akismet out there. so you may want to check these out. Off the top of my head, I don’t think it would be terribly hard to implement one of those “math-type” spam protections. I personally, hate CAPTCHA, so I don’t subject my visitors to that.

By: John

John — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:03:24 +0000

Hi – thanks for posting this up. It’s interesting to see the differences between yours and Snook’s examples.

I was wondering how secure this was (thinking spam) – and for anybody else who is wondering – I just checked the email component in the API http://api.cakephp.org/email_8php-source.html and there everything is sent through a handy function called __strip() that removes unwanted things like bcc: and to: from the subject and message of the emails sent.

Cheers.

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