Contact Form creating 403 error.

[louisstephens]

I have a contact form that feeds to a engine.php. However when I go to fill it out, I get a 403 error )permission denied. I am using mamp, so maybe it is an issue with this. However, I was wondering if anyone else had run into this problem before.

I have the url to the .php file using "

<?php echo $config->urls->templates?>form/

[Mike Rockett]

You shouldn't be able to access php files directly in the templates folder - that could bring about a security problem. Better to use a module, or perhaps move engine.php to a different location that has nothing to do with ProcessWire.

[Ivan Gretsky]

...or create a template "engine", so engine.php will be your template file.

[louisstephens]

Thanks Mike and Ivan. I totally did not even think of creating a template "engine" to handle this.

[Mike Rockett]

...or create a template "engine", so engine.php will be your template file.

Also true (much truer than anything else) - my brain is evidently exhausted for the day.

[louisstephens]

A dumb question I am sure, but how would you go about passing it to the template page (best practice). The engine.php will be used by several other pages that in theory will have different email addresses .

[Ivan Gretsky]

I actually do not know much about your need. I do not know wheather you are using ajax, how much differ the forms on different pages and so on...

But for simple cases the best practice seems to be to submit a form to the same page. It is Option 3 in this Ryan's post. Check out this example.

Another usefull resourse on the topic is this Soma's post.

There are even a few modules to help - this is one free one, seems like Mike Rockett is working on another one.

And of course don't forget that you can (and should) buy this one from Ryan.