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Mailform

On most hosting accounts, we provide a secure method of transferring form data to email using NMS Mailform. Details on creating a form with the correct values are listed below, for advanced information on a range of other functions available, please read the Help section within the mailform.cgi file.

<input type="input" name="realname">	The name of the person completing the form
<input type="input" name="email">	Email address of the person completing the form
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="mail@site.com">	Your email address where the form will be mailed to
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Message from Site"> or <input type="input" name="subject">	The subject of your email form response
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="/thanks">	Absolute URL of your thank you/redirection page

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Text counter

Introduce some numbers into your site, with this very simple and accurate text counter.

1. Unzip Text-Counter.zip to your CGI-BIN directory (eg. /cgi-bin).
2. Upload the file onto the site using FTP
3. CHMOD countit.cgi to 755 (right-click the file within CuteFTP or WS_FTP)
4. CHMOD counts.dat to 777 to enable updates to the file
5. Add the following code into the page (must have an .shtml extension) where you wish the counter to appear:
   <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/countit.cgi"-->
   (or <?php virtual("/cgi-bin/countit.cgi"); ?> in PHP)

Example: This page has been viewed
Warning: virtual() [function.virtual]: Unable to include '/cgi-bin/countit.cgi' - request execution failed in /home/designextreme/public_html/support/scripts/index.php on line 140
times since May 10, 2001. See total page views.

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Random HTML

This is great for seamlessly including random bits of HTML like banners, images, page redirections and lots more.

1. Unzip Random.zip to your CGI-BIN directory (eg. /cgi-bin).
2. Within the randex.cgi file edit the variables in a text editor. This process is mainly self explanitory, but you can find out more information by contacting us.
3. Upload all the files to the CGI-BIN on your website
4. CHMOD all files to 666, and randex.txt to 644 (right-click the file within CuteFTP or WS_FTP)
5. Edit randex.txt, adding bits of HTML code that you want to randomly appear, each separated by:
   [%%BREAK%%]
6. Add the following code into the page (must have an .shtml extension) where you wish the counter to appear:
   <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/randex.cgi"-->
   (or <?php virtual("/cgi-bin/randex.cgi"); ?> in PHP)

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