Introduction

Phorm™ v3.5.2

Note: In all documentation, "user" refers to the person using this program - you. "Visitor" refers to a person visiting your site and filling out a form. This document is hyperlinked throughout, for easy reference to variables and sections. If the documentation is talking about something from another section, the text will usually be clickable.

Introduction:

Phorm is a form processing script written in PHP. With Phorm you can perform any of the following actions with your form data:

Format it
Include it in an acknowledgement page for the visitor
Send it to an email address, or a number of email addresses
Validate it against a sophisticated set of criteria
Include it in an autoresponder message to the visitor
Log it to a text file
Log it to a MySQL database

Why Phorm?

I originally wrote PHPMail as a replacement for cgiemail, a popular script for emailing form contents. cgiemail can also output a "success" (acknowledgement) message to the visitor, or allow the user to re-direct the visitor to a custom (but static) acknowledgement page. It does not allow inclusion of form data in the acknowledgement page, nor does it have any of the other features of Phorm. Further, the documentation for cgiemail is not very clear, and there are no plans for further development of it.

The desire for the ability to include form data in the acknowledgement is what led to the earliest version of PHPMail. As I continued to develop the program and add features, the name became inaccurate, as it could do so much more than emailing, so the name was changed to Phorm.

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