"Contact the webmaster" form ?

[Mickey]

Hello,

In the IndexU templates, there is nowhere a link to contact the webmaster of the site.
It's stupid to write "in clear" a mail address (it's a spam magnet), even with a JavaScript to deceive the spam robots.

So, I suppose all the elements (classes and php files) to create a form to contact the webmaster are already in the IndexU script. The captcha is still existing, but where are the other pieces ?
Is it possible to create such a form using elements from IndexU instead of using an "imported" script ?

Thanks a lot for any solution.

Mickey

[prowler]

Hi,

Do want I did, Place a "contact us" link on your header? and place the code in the hyperlink. /sendmail.php?u=admin.

Simple solution.

[Mickey]

Hi,

Do want I did, Place a "contact us" link on your header? and place the code in the hyperlink. /sendmail.php?u=admin.

Simple solution.

Thanks a lot, it works.

But I use a simple "passive" directory, without mailing list, without "users" nor "editors", and without reviews, votes nor ratings. So, I had to create an account for "admin" (in "/cp"), adding my e-mail address in this account. The e-mail address put in the "/admin" section is not working with the e-mail from the "/cp" section.

To don't give bad ideas to spammers, I changed the "/sendmail.php?u=admin" URL into an html URL (URL rewriting in ".htaccess" file). Spammers (or simply stupid people) could try hundreds of terms to replace "admin". It sends nothing, but it could avoerload the web host (I suppose).

Thanks a lot.

Mickey

PS : Dody (or Zubby)... Could you tell me if a spammer putting lots of terms to replace "admin" in "/sendmail.php?u=admin" could overload the web host ? What are the consequences ?

[Bruceper]

Define "lots" of queries to a URL, 1000 per day? 10,000 per hour? It all depends on what kind of hardware is behind the site as to how many hits on a url it would take before something happens.

What will happen? Load will go up on the server and it will start running slower and slower until something eventually crashes such as apache. However something like this is going to take thousands of requests per second on a decent server.

[Vitis]

Hi everyone,
I'm a newbie here and just got my indexu up and running a few days ago at
Vitisearch Grape Grower Portal

What I would like is a Contact Us link at the top of the page to a
form page like they use at
Directory of niche and regional/local directories only - IndexU Directory or exactly
Contact Us - IndexU Directory

Can anyone tell me where to start? It seems simple, clean and uses captcha.
Best regards,
Michel White

[Bruceper]

Which is exactly what you get if you use /sendmail.php?u=admin as mentioned above

The sendmail.php part is the page of the mail form. The ?u=admin just means people are emailing the admin user.

[Vitis]

Sadly enough I only have a rough idea of what you mean Bruceper.
Do you mean that I make a copy of sendmail.php, rename it to contact.php
and then make a "Contact Us" link to http://www.vitisearch.com/contact.php?u
I just tried this, got to a form and tried to send it but it gave a 505 error. I then
added =admin to the url above and sent an email to myself and it worked.

Thanks, you have at least gotten me a lot closer to what I have to do.
Michel

[Bruceper]

You don't need to make a copy of any file, just add the link at the top of the top (and/or bottom).

You can make a copy, but it's not necessary.

[Vitis]

I did make a copy simply because I want the Contact Us form to say
"Contact Us" instead of what it said before...
At any rate I wouldn't have been able to do it without your help and all is hunky dory,
Thanks,
Michel