• Introduction
• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• Settings
• License
  

Introduction:

Every web site needs a way to communicate with users! A contact-Us form is expected to be on every web site. Zeronese.net is proud to present this complex high end free contact form script to its visitors. This contact form is a member of the webmaster tools family, it takes into account new comers. In this regards, if you find some simple information in this documentation, you have to remember when you were a novice and think about the many who are making their first step to having a web site or regular users who do not need to learn any technicalities but still need to use a contact form!

Features:

Being free does not mean that the form has to be cheap! This zeronese php contact form script is a very complex powerful php script. Zeronese.net has took all measures to make the form useful and easily customizable. This is a list of the contact form features:

1- Supports most of contact forms required fields. List of fields and options that that you can easily change from the settings file:

• Title (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• First Name (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• Middle Name (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• Last Name (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• Company (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• Address Line One (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• Address Line Two (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• City (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• State (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text, list or input field)
• Zip code (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text, numbers only)
• Country (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text, list or input field)
• Email Address (Options: show/hide, required or not, label text)
• Web site Address (Options: show/hide, required or not, label text)
• Telephone Number (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text, numbers only)
• Fax Number (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text, numbers only)
• Subject (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• Reference Number (Options: show/hide, minimum characters required, label text)
• Message (Options: minimum characters required, label text)
• Sends the senders ip address of sender.

2- You can enable or disable any field on the form. This easily done by editing the handy settings file of the script instead of having to re-program or re-design the form.

3- Make any field a required field.

4- Important field are verified for accuracy before submit. Web site address, email address, telephone number must be what they are to eliminate spamming.

5- Give any field a minimum number of characters to be accepted as input.

6- Send a receipt to customer with a copy of his form. You can enable or disable this option from the settings file.

7- Insert a message such as a thank you note and/or signature to the top or bottom of the receipt. Easily changeable from the settings file.

8- Send the receipt from a given email address like a noreply address and receive the form to a different address.

9- Change the colors of the form from the settings file instead of messing with the code of the contact form script.

10- Your email is hidden from email search engines to eliminate spam.

11- Customize success message and error message after form submit from the settings files.

12- Change fields labels from the settings file.

13- Does not require a database. Receive the form to your email address.

Requirements:

A server able to run php with mail function enabled.

Installation:

The script runs using two files: settings.php and contactusform.php Putting these two files in the same folder on your server is actually installing the script! All that is left to be done is:

1- open the settings.php file using your favorite php editor and change at least the following three variables:

• $website_name : So the receiver knows where the email is coming from after submitting the form.
• $mail_to: the e-mail where you want to receive the form.
• $mail_from: the e-mail to send the receipt from after submission. Could be a noreply@yourdomain.com or the same as $mail_to

2- If agree with the default settings, you are done. If not, go through the settings in settings.php and change them to your needs. Save the settings.php file and you are done!

3- Any where you want to use the form, place the following code (note that this code must be used in a page that is executed as php):

<?php include("contactusform.php");showcontactusform(); ?>

If you want to add the form to an existing php source code file, just after the <?php add the following: include("contactusform.php");

then any where you want the contact form to show, simply add: showcontactusform();

 

Settings:

1 - Default Settings:

• Title: Show, Not Required
• First Name: Show, Required, Minimum 2 characters
• Middle Name: Show, Not Required
• Last Name: Show, Required, Minimum 2 characters
• Company: Show, Not required
• Address Line 1: Show, Not Required
• Address Line 2: Show Not Required
• City: Show, Not Required
• State: Show, Drop Down List, Not Required
• Zip code: Show, Not Required, Numbers Only Accepted
• Country: Show, Not Required, Drop Down List
• Telephone Number: Show, Not Required, (numbers only on input)
• Fax Number: Show, Not Required,(numbers only on input)
• Email: Show, Required (Automatically verified on input)
• Web site Address: Show, Not Required, (Automatically verified on input)
• Subject: Show, Required, Minimum 5 characters
• Reference Number: Hide
• Message: 100 minimum characters
• Send Receipt: Yes
• Labels font color = Black
• Background color = white
• font size: 12px;
• font family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
• font weight: bold
• form align : center of container
• number of lines in message box = 10

2- Modifying Settings:

• Messages: Be cartful for the quotes at the beginning and the end of the message. These are required by php to tell the script that this is the start and the end of the message. You can add a new line to the message by adding a new line tag which is "n" without the quotes in your message.For example, in the $receipt_append_bottom variable you can add your company name and address this way:

$receipt_append_bottom = "Your Company Name n Company Address n CompanyWebsiteAddress.com n Telephone:111 222 3333 n Thank You";

Your customer will receive it like this:

Your Company Name
Company Address
CompanyWebsiteAddress.com
Telephone:111 222 333
Thank You

• Company name and email addresses: change it the same way you change messages, only no new lines here. Email addresses must be valid emails!
• Variables: the names of the variables are self explanatory. to enable a variable set it to 1, to disable a variable set it to 0. To make a variable required make the minimum required characters greater than 0. the minimum characters variables has no effect if show variable is disabled.
• Special fields:
• Telephone,Fax, zip code: you can force the user to input numbers only in these fields. Even if the field is not required, this option will still work when the user makes an input.
• Web site and email address: The script will verify that the input is of a valid format on input automatically whether the fields are required or not.
• States and Country: By default they are lists, if you prefer you can have them as input fields similar to name and city. As always, in both cases, to make them required, set the minimum characters to a value greater than zero.
• Design Settings: You can change these values to make the contact form match your web site design.

Version 2.0 of this great contact form has been released with the following additional features:
a- Image verification (captcha) for even better security and anti-spam: the contact form now has the image verification feature. Like all the other features of the zeronese free contact form, all the settings of the image verification code is controlled from the settings file. For this to work for you, you will have to have the GD library installed on your server.
b- Confirmation page: instead of displaying just a thank you message, the contact form has the capability of displaying the content of a separate html file that you can design and add what ever you like in it. Also, you can disable this and display the classic than you message after a successful submission of the form.
c- Date and Time is now received in both the receipt e-mail and the email you receive. An offset can be set in the settings file if your server's time is different from your time.
e- more control over the error messages in the settings file.

Please Note if you are upgrading to 2.0:

1- seesion_start() function must be at the very beginning of the php file. this is used for the captcha support.
2- If you are not going to use the captcha verification you can delete session_start();
3- if your php file that will host the contact form already has session started, you will also need to delete session_start.

License:

The Free Zeronese PHP Contact Us Script is distributed under the under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

These are in short these are the terms of use of this script:

Zeronese Inc. grants the right to:

1 - Use this script on as many web sites as you like.
2- Use the script on commercial and personal sites.
3- Customize the script design and structure to suit your web site needs.

Under this license Zeronese, Inc. Does NOT grant you the right to:
1- Remove the "powered by" link and note on the contact form script.
2- Distribute the code modified or unmodified claiming it to be your own work.
3- Sell the script modified or unmodified, separate or in combination with other code or project.

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The version of your script is on the top of the settings file, the current version is (1.3). You can download the current version of the contact form script from here...