PloneFormMailer

Warning

This product has not had a release in over 1 year and may no longer be maintained.

Send web-forms by e-mail to recipients. DEVELOPMENT DISCONTINUED! Use the successor PloneFormGen!

Project Description

Create forms and configure the mail-template through the Plone.

PloneFormMailer is a Plone product for through the web (ttw) creation of forms and sending them formated to one or more fixed recipients. After successful sent a customizeable response-page will be displayed.

It combines the power of Formulator and CMFFormController glued together in an Archetypes product.

PloneFormMailer is designed for easy adaption.

Features:

• Send web-forms via e-mail, like contact forms, order forms, etc.
• Form creation via formulator; fully customizeable
• Customizeable mail header and body with PageTemplates
• TALES support for recipients name, e-mail, cc, bcc
• Add header and footer (txt, stx, html, ...) to form
• Own controller page template (optional)
• Customizeable response page (displayed after succeccful send)
• Response redirect with TALES support (optional)
• Encrypt message using gpg (optional)
• i18n support with LinguaPlone (optional)

Formulator ...

... is no longer part of Plone. It was dropped by plone 2.1. You can download Formulator from Infrae at www.infrae.com/download/Formulator but it is included in the PloneFormMailer bundles for your convenience.

Authors

• Jens Klein jens@bluedynamics.com, original author.
• Reinout van Rees, Zest software, current maintainer.

Copyright by BlueDynamics Alliance, Klein & Partner KEG, Austria

Licence

This product is under GNU General Public Licence Version 2 or later

Credits

Thanks to Daniel Nouri, who did basic case-studies with Uniformed and added TALES support. Thanks to the unknown author of the howto at plone.org Integrating CMFFormController with Formulator and also to the authors of CMFFormController and Formulator. And also thanks to all contributors of all minor changes.

Lately Jean-Charles Rogez has done a lot of work, most notably allowing attachments. Thanks!

Contribution:

If you like to help out in writing code and/or documentation, just start and cvs commit. Ok, bigger changes would be nice to discuss ;-)

Support

There isn't enough traffic for a own mailing-list. So feel free to post to the plone-users list or to ask around on #plone in IRC. The authors are available pretty often and others can chime in too.

Professional support is offered by the authors and other Plone-supporting companies around the globe.