Open source form receiver and forwarder for static website

FYI:

https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/formspree-alternatives

That’s a very interesting question, @Verhoekx.

For years I’ve been using Allforms/Mailjol and it has proved to be reliable for contact forms, testimonial form and (very) simple order forms.

However it seems its makers abandoned the project. They no longer reply to questions in the forum and no longer collect money for the pro version ($ 10,-/year I believe). But the strange thing is: it keeps working flawlessly and reliably. Someone is clearly looking after Allforms. Over several years I have had zero problems with this service.

But as the situation is, no one knows Allforms’ intention. They obviously look after the service, but could also suddenly pull the plug.

So I too have been looking for alternatives, but nothing seems what we are looking for. Most Formspree alternatives have the “Freemium” model, which is easy to truly hate 😉

So I’m glad you brought this up. Let’s find a form handling service that is perfect for all Publiiists!

Thanks for your ideas @Verhoeckx.

OhMyForm looks like a good candidate, worth considering.

You probably know this list: https://alternativeto.net/software/formspree-io/

Of those, FormSubmit, AirForm, Simple Form and Severless Form are candidates, imho.

There’s also SmtpJS that looks really interesting. I don’t know enough about smtp, so cannot judge.

Let’s find a good solution!

@Verhoeckx

@Bert

Please keep us updated on this topic, if possible 🙂

Thanks

[anonymous] wrote:

FormSubmit: not open source.

AirForm: needs a JavaScript framework on the server.

Simple Form: needs Ruby on Rails on the server.

Serverless Forms: also needs a JavaScript framework on the server.

I’m looking for something in PHP so that’s easy to install.

I think we are talking about two different things. OhMyForm is primarily a formbuilder (that is not php) and not so simple to implement and it has to be installed on your own server.

The ones I mentioned are web services developed for people running static pages, for the servers those pages use do not have dynamic components like php. (and that’s why those static pages are so fast and secure)

FormSubmit: “Connect your form to FormSubmit endpoint and we’ll email you the submissions. No PHP, Javascript or sign up required.”

Airform: “What if you could use a service that gives you full control over the form, yet doesn’t require you to use anything on your server? Airform gives you the ability to create functional HTML forms without thinking about servers.”

Serverless Forms: “ServerlessForms is hosted in cloud and managed by us so that you don’t need to worry about form data management. Just focus on your website design and content. We will take care of your form submits”

@Verhoekx,

You probably know this list: https://alternativeto.net/software/formspree-io/

Not too long ago I went thru it and made notes, but lost those, due to having no backup 😳

I did not post this today. It was one of the messages I tried to post earlier, but it was refused by the forum software.

So, apologies for sending you the same stuff twice… it was not my intention.

Hi,

I use with satisfaction “just validate” https://github.com/horprogs/Just-validate.

• Lightweight (~ 4,5kb gzip) form validation in Javascript Vanilla
• Client-side validation with custom error messages
• Ajax helper that I use with mail() php

I use it on my Publii site (http://www.mywebpassion.it) and on some sites developed for my clients.

 I was looking for a server side script (for example written in PHP).

@Verhoeckxo You may enjoy Formtools then.

marc_io wrote:

I was looking for a server side script (for example written in PHP).

@Verhoeckxo You may enjoy Formtools then.

Here’s a PHP forms processor that I have used on a Publii website:

https://www.willmaster.com/library/manage-forms/php-form-processor-for-simple-and-complex-forms.php

Hope that helps.

Hi Itips3727,

Thanks for sending me the above script but I have the idea that the script is not safe because it doesn’t test for Cross Site Scripting (XSS).

Verhoeckx

Hi Itips3727,

Oh, I didn’t know that Apache could do that!
Is this solution good enough to prevent all kind of XSS-attacks?

Verhoeckx

Hello everybody,
I was also looking for a forms service. The DSGVO / data protection makes an external integration difficult.
Every hosting, no matter how small, nowadays includes php.
Therefore I have built a system from the Internet from different code snippets with client and server-side spam protection:

Client side: Honeypot, waiting for keyboard and mouse input
Server-side: comparison of the domain, valid e-mail address, no URL in the text

Look at:

https://codepen.io/ReiniJ/pen/jOqrPqz

The code now consists of
– HTLM and Javascript code (both in the contact post)
– php-mailer as mailing basis (https://github.com/msoftware/PHPMailer/)
– php configuration file (mailconfig.php) in the web subdirectory /E_Mail_Code/
– php-contact file (conact.php) in the web subdirectory /E_Mail_Code/

Unfortunately, some of the scripts have been translated by me into German.

Overall, a good contact form is more difficult than I thought. Especially if you want to comply with data protection and do not want to receive spam. For me the solution now works very well.

For the last few websites that I built, I used Vue Formulate for the front end and Form Tools for the back-end.

I installed Vue Formulate manually and Form Tools with the Installatron of DirectAdmin (a web hosting control panel).

This structure works very well for me.

You can read this about how to create a static website with contact form on github pages

[anonymous] wrote:

Check out this publii forms backend.

Please don’t use this form to promote certain products.