Forms on Drupal

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Hi,
I have a test install of Drupal on my windows computer. I'll want to move a site from html and .txt files on athena to a Drupal site. I can paste in the html for a form and it references the .txt file and sends email just fine. But I'm guessing that there is a way inside Drupal to do it all - without needing the athena locker and .txt files therein. I see there is a provision for inserting a poll in Drupal, but don't know how flexible polls are. Has anybody moved from html forms with .txt files and can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
Jim

7/24/13

Hi Jim!

You may find the answer you're looking for in the webforms module. It allows you to create webforms in Drupal almost as easily as you create pages: just navigate to the add new content page and choose the webform option.

To give you an idea of how powerful the webform module can be: The form you use to sign up for a Drupal Cloud site is done via webforms.

7/26/13

Another great feature of the webform module: While it will email you the results, it also saves the submissions in your site database, so you can download all of the submissions into a spreadsheet. This is really handy when using a form for sign-ups.

8/1/13

Can the webform module emails be in html format? I'm using the email as a registration confirmation and want to put some mail and website links into the confirmation. I've put the necessary HTML in the webform e-mail template, but it isn't being sent as html. Thanks, Alexis

8/27/14

Hi Alexis. The Webform module only sends plaintext emails. If you include full URLs in your outgoing email, many common email clients will recognize the format and treat the string as a link.

8/28/14