Flash/php email contact forms for blogs

These email contact forms will fit nicely in the sidebar of a wordpress blog, like the slightly larger one I have in my sidebar over to the right.

Why have an email contact form? Anyone can mail you, but no one can see your email address. This includes spammers and bots. The fact that your form is in a flash object means that only humans can email you.

What do you get? If you have your own hosting, you get an html page that the form code is embedded in, a text file with the html code for the form ready to insert into your sidebar, the .swf file which is the flash form, and a .php file to manage the email. The .swf file comes with the location of your php file coded into it, the php file has your email address edited in, and the .html file has the location of your flash file edited in. So you can’t just buy and upload, I will have to edit it for you.

You get directions for inserting it into the sidebar of a Wordpress blog.

If you don’t have a blog whose sidebar you can edit, you may not be be able to install it there. It is still possible for you to put a form on a page in your blog. You can also link to an .html contact page. If you don’t have hosting, I can provide perpetual hosting for all files for a one-time fee.

These are a few samples of one possible style in a number of colors. They can be made in any color to coordinate with your blog theme. I’ll come up with a page of other styles soon. Email me if you are interested.

By the way, although these say, “Click to email me,” the email function on all the samples in this post is disabled. You can click and see what happens when you try to send an email without editing the name, address, or message. Click to clear the form and try to send again. Then fill in the form properly and see what happens. Besides not allowing you to send an unedited or blank mail, the php form does some checks to make sure the email address is really an address.

Click away!
 

The price is $15 ready to install or $20 installed.