An issue with a contact form

[inteltone]

I use contact forms on several pages of my website. They have worked very well on my Joomla1.5.22 website.

I installed Joomla1.6. Now there is a problem. When I copy a script of a contact form to a page and then save a page as a result the form is missing one, very important line, namely

action="http://mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/fmail.cgi"

So Joomla1.6 throws this line away while saving this article and nothing could help me solve this problem so far.

Please, help me. I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.

[CDNKnights]

Your code is being stripped because of the Joomla blacklist. This is done to prevent people from being able to execute unwanted scripts from within your site. You CAN go into libraries/joomla/filter/filterinput.php and look on line 65. "var $attrBlacklist = array ('action', 'background', 'codebase',...etc". By removing 'action', from this list you will be allowing the action tag to be written.

IF you do this, ANYONE who can submit articles can now put action in tags and submit it which could potentially pose a security risk. If you will be the only one with any kind of write privileges on your site this is likely not so much of an issue, however if you are building a community site where there will be many people submitting articles I would recommend against this.

A simple alternative to this would be to simply make a link to a file that does not run within Joomla that has your contact form and script on it.

[inteltone]

Thanks a lot, CDNKnights. Your advice has helped me. Now everything works very well!

[CDNKnights]

That's great! I'm glad I could help.

[utten]

Hi, I guess that this is the same problem I have when i make a mouse over on an image, when i save the mouse over lines disapears ?

[CDNKnights]

That's entirely possible. You may want to look at using CSS as a fix for your mouseover problems. What is the code you are using? Can you provide a link to page that is giving you the problems? If I can see it I'll have a better idea of where to start.

If you're simply using something like:

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<a href="link.html"><img src="file-name.jpg" onmouseover="your-code" onmouseout="your-code" /></a>

The blacklist isn't what's filtering that out. What editor are you using to write this article?

[mcsmom]

Please don't hack core code.
Go to the filters and for super admins set filtering to none.
Be aware that this could be dangerous if you let people you don't trust or who don't know what they are doing have no filtering.
This is not a performance issue by the way. Performance has to do with things like how fast your pages load.