Additional Form Security

While several precautions have been taken to prevent your form from being abused, you may wish to also implement an additional step on the backend which will ensure that the PHP backend script for your ezForm will not be abused by other users to send unsolicited emails.

To do this:

1. Edit the PHP file that you are using (either formhtml.php, formtext.php, formhtml.php3 or formtext.php3), using any text editor. For example, Notepad, Wordpad, TextEdit or Dreamweaver.

2. You should see the following lines at the very top of this PHP file:

//edit this line to include the email address of the form recipient between the quotation marks
//for example: $formrecipient = "you@youremail.com";
$formrecipient = "";

Simply edit this so that the recipient email address appears between the quotation marks, like this:

$formrecipient = "you@youremail.com";

3. Save the PHP file (ensure that your text editing application has not added an extension to the end of the filename).

4. Upload the PHP file to your server in place of the current file that you are using.

Note:

1. You may enter multiple recipients, separated with commas.

2. When you hard code the recipient in the PHP file, the "Recepient Email" value that you entered in the ezForm properties panel is no longer valid. This value must still appear in the ezForm properties panel as it is a required value in order for the ezForm component to work correctly.