By argyle on

Completely inexperienced in php. I've checked around and found suggestions on how to use form_mail in regards to setting up a static page, however, i'd like to place a form in a block.

Is this possible? How might it be done? Is form_mail the right answer for this?

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argyle commented

searched and read a little more on this, but i'm still coming up with problems on it. found http://drupal.org/node/5180 with php examples to try including:

<?php
$form .= form_textfield("Subject", "subject", "", 60, 70);
$form .= form_textfield("Name", "from_name", "", 60, 128);
$form .= form_textfield("Email", "from_email", "", 60, 128, "Please fill this out if you would like a response by email");
$form .= form_textarea("Message", "body", "", 60, 15);
$form .= form_submit("Send email");
echo form($form, "post", "form_mail");
?>

which just gets me an empty block on my site. As suggested on the above link, I tried the exact same code without the php tags at the beginning and end and then it simply displays the remainder of the code in the block.

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nevets commented

When you created the block did you set the 'input format' to PHP code?

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argyle commented

no, i didn't. thanks, problem resolved.