Recently I was under pressure to splam a contact form solution into a one-page website at the last minute. Ordinarily if I am building something with html in PHP, I would use this Frankenstein version of Jem’s Mail Form which I have used happily for years. It does the trick without issue, and once you slap reCaptcha on there you are ready to go. But in the situations where that isn’t going to work, and you are not using a CMS with a contact form built-in (or Contact Form 7!), here are two sweet and straighforward e-mail solutions you might want to try.
I always loved the word ‘spree’. In Irish, Spraoi sort of means ‘play’. How many different types of sprees can you have? There’s a killing spree, a shopping spree, and I guess now there’s an e-mailing spree, facilitated by your hot pals at FormSpree.
You basically shove this into your site and it works instantly, the authentication being that the first mail is a verification to the email address at which it is pointed. From there, once you verify, you are free to feel the white hot emails riddle your pasty inbox in a hail of enquiries.
Hey I quite liked this, because you have actual control over the form element and the control of the form (such as redirection after success) is cleverly embedded in hidden inputs, and there’s a honeypot available in the same way. The first 1000 mails are free which I think is pretty generous. After 1000 successful enquiries I’d be happy to pay whatever the paltry fee is – I think is it 5 bucks per 1000 mails? It’s good value anyway.
So there you have two delicious emailing solutions ready to rock. See you later!