Simple Form Processing and E-mailing with CFFormMail

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:53:00-0400

I posted a new project today to RIA Forge called CFFormMail. This project is a ColdFusion port of the venerable formmail Perl script found on Matt's Script Archive. Every attempt was made to make this a drop-in replacement for the perl script, so that the only necessary change in an existing html form is to modify the form action from formmail.pl to formmail.cfm. Beyond the port, some new functionality has been added, most significantly is integration with Jake Munson's CF Form Protect to help deter form spam. I also began the integration of language resource bundles, but currently only have an English translation. I created this processing engine last year and had planned on posting it on RIA Forge, but completely forgot about doing so until I read Ben Nadel's recent post on Generic Form Processing and Emailing in ColdFusion. Mine was designed as a drop-in replacement for formmail.pl (but can certainly be used on new forms!) with support for all the parameters in the original Perl version, while the code in Ben's post appears to have a subset of the functionality of the Perl version plus the ability to handle file uploads. Hopefully you will find this script useful. I welcome any suggestions for improvements and also any additional language translations you would like to include (submit them translated also). Please post suggestions to the forums over at the project site.

The MKVille Blog - CFFormMail

Simple Form Processing and E-mailing with CFFormMail