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ColdFusion Contact Forms in One Easy File - Part 2

By: Michael Evangelista on Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Primary Category: ColdFusionIn Part 1 of this tutorial, we created a simple ColdFusion contact form, and set up some basic checking for a few required values, using validation and a very simple server-side check for an email address.

To process the form contents, we set up two dynamic messages - one to send the email to the site owner, and a custom auto-response 'thank you' message back to the person submitting the form.

Simple, easy, and it works... but we didn't do much to restrict the flow of content, including unwanted junk mail, into our contact form and our customers' inboxes.

In this section of the tutorial (Part 2 of 3), we will add several methods of spam prevention to our simple contact form, including:

...all in one simple file that you can insert into any page!

Michael Evangelista is a freelance web developer, ColdFusion programmer, and owner of a successful web and print design company based in southern Utah. Michael's company, Evangelista Design, has grown from a locally-oriented small business web design company to an international team of designers and ColdFusion developers offering a wide range of online business solutions, including full-service web hosting, custom content management applications, corporate data systems, and more.

The ColdFusion Contact Forms in One Easy File Series:
ColdFusion Contact Forms in One Easy File - Part 1
ColdFusion Contact Forms in One Easy File - Part 2
ColdFusion Contact Forms in One Easy File - Part 3

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