Introduction for Version 1.21
Thank you for downloading simpleContact Lite. I hope you find it useful. You are free to use it however you wish. Use it as-is or go ahead and re-brand or extend it to meet your needs. All documentation is online, in the interests of keeping it up to date. This introduction is a pointer to those resources.
If you have any comments, questions or feature suggestions, please contact me. I reply to all messages.
Key features
- Automagical installation – enter your database info and upload
- Smart default settings to save you time
- Browser-based admin with messages inbox
- Simple checkbox select of commonly used contact form fields (e.g. telephone number, company etc)
- Server-side form validation
- Multiple email recipients
- Email autoresponder with personalisation
- Single opt-in mailing list
- Built with web standards and integrates easily with your website
See the release notes for more details.
Installation
simpleContact Lite is easy to install, with no programming. If you have installed applications (e.g WordPress) on your website before, you have all the access and know-how you need. See the installation guide for instructions.
About PHPMailer
PHPMailer is a “full featured email transfer class for PHP” that exposes a much greater range of features than the standard PHP mail() function. I have it used on several projects in the past, and it has proven highly reliable.
PHPMailer is produced by Brent R. Matzelle (original author), Andy Prevost, Patrice Fournier, Chris Ryan, Cem Hurturk, Tom Klingenberg and Jaime Bozza. PHPMailer is free software and distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). There is no warranty or responsibility on the part of the original authors.
simpleContact Lite 1.21 uses PHPMailer 2.0.4, the latest PHP 4 compatible version at the time of writing. If you are using PHP 5/6, you may wish to download version 5.1 from the PHPMailer website.
Please note: If PHPMailer fails in use for any reason, simpleContact Lite will attempt to use the PHP mail() function.
Acknowledgements
My thanks go to Richard Barratt, Alex Borshik, Mark Griffin, Kevin Lees, Dennis Levin, Stephen Meehan, Dave Stewart and Steve Sumner for their various contributions. To users of simpleContact for their feedback, which helps to make this product what it is. To my folks for their encouragement.