Contact form user control

Rachel · December 11th, 2011, 09:40 AM

Hi -

I used the contact control example in chapter 9, in a website I deployed. But when I send mail, it comes to my email box (which I redirected from my website) with the sender's name as "Sender Name Here" and recipient's email as "Receiver Name Here".

I've obviously missed something. Can anyone help?

Imar · December 11th, 2011, 10:04 AM

You missed replacing the text "Sender's name here" with your own. You can find the code in the control's code behind.

Cheers,

Imar

Rachel · December 14th, 2011, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imar

You missed replacing the text "Sender's name here" with your own. You can find the code in the control's code behind.

Cheers,

Imar

Hi -
I just edited this to take out all the code I posted. I did not understand the way this was supposed to work. It now works to forward email to me under my name. What I was looking to do was see if it sent a confirmation email to the sender. Obviously you can't type that in there!

Thanks. Maybe somewhere else in the book it tells how to get the email to send a confirmation email to the sender?

Imar · December 15th, 2011, 06:33 AM

Just get the user's e-mail address from a text box, and add it to the To collection just as you saw earlier.

In order for that to work you need to ensure the user enters a valid e-mail address. You can use the RegularExpressionValidator for that. In addition, it might be a good idea to implement exception handling (chapter 18) in case something goes wrong.

Cheers,

Imar