Formgate is a self-hosted solution for handling contact forms on your static websites. You just need to host a single instance of Formgate to handle the contact forms for all of your static websites.

Master:

Develop:

• Apache (or other web server with appropriate rewrite rules configured)
• PHP 7.2
• Composer

1. Host this repo on your web server (e.g. forms.yourdomain.com), ensuring the public directory is configured as your document root.
2. Run composer install to download dependencies.
3. Copy .env.example to .env and configure.

Send a POST request to https://forms.yourdomain.com/send with the following parameters:

Important:

Any fields starting with _ will not be included in the email body.

The _recipient must be added to the allow list in your .env file to be valid.

The _hp_email field acts as a honeypot field to prevent spam submissions.

You can include any other parameters to be included in the generated email.

Example form:

<form action="https://forms.yourdomain.com/send" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name="_recipient" value="[email protected]">
  <input type="hidden" name="_redirect_success" value="https://clientwebsite.com/success/">
  <input type="text" name="_sender_name">
  <input type="email" name="_sender_email">
  <input type="text" name="_subject">
  <textarea name="Message"></textarea>
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

It's early days for the project but in future we would like to add the following functionality:

• A UI to configure forms and email settings.
• The option to store forms in a database and view the submissions later.
• Support for granting third party access to log in and view submissions for certain forms.
• An API to submit forms using JavaScript with inline captcha.

With various hosted solutions available, you might be wondering what the purpose of Formgate is. The project has the following benefits:

• Free to use.
• No limit on the number of forms, submissions or size of file uploads.
• Complete control over your data and what jurisdiction it's processed in.
• Can be installed quickly on a low cost shared hosting account to handle the contact forms for all of your static websites.

This project is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.