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Sent API is a self-hosted API allowing you to submit forms from static HTML sites across the web. The API takes your form data and turns it into a nicely formatted email. It’s the ultimate solution for handling forms on static site!

Simply add a custom ACTION attribute to your form pointing to your API url, and Sent will handle the form submission and send you the form data in a nice email (the submissions are also stored inside a database for easy management)

In the examples below, “yourdomain/sent” would in real situations be replaced with the URL pointing to your own API and “me@gmail.com” with the email address to which the data should be send.

Basic example

<form action="//yourdomain/sent/api/me@gmail.com">
    <input type="text" name="name">
    <input type="email" name="email">
    <textarea name="message"></textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

Advanced example

<form action="//yourdomain/sent/api/me@gmail.com">
    <input type="hidden" name="_subject" value="">
    <input type="hidden" name="_replyto" value="">
    <input type="hidden" name="_after" value="">
    <input type="hidden" name="_confirmation" value="">
    <input type="text" name="name">
    <input type="email" name="email">
    <textarea name="message"></textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

Validation Example

<form action="//yourdomain/sent/api/me@gmail.com">
    <input type="hidden" name="_valid[name]" value="">
    <input type="hidden" name="_valid[email]" value="">
    <input type="hidden" name="_valid[message]" value="">
    <input type="text" name="name">
    <input type="email" name="email">
    <textarea name="message"></textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

Sent API features

• 1 minutes setup using the easy install script


• Form field validation


• Form submission using regular email address OR email ID (to hide your email address in the API url)


• Handles file uploads with a breeze (adds them as attachment and optionally stores them on your server)


• HTML and/or text emails


• Custom confirmation messages


• SPAM detection (using a custom SPAM words and/or phrases)


• SPAM detection using a honey pot field


• Use as public OR private API


• Advanced options using custom hidden fields


• Easy to use admin panel to track submissions, email ID’s and attachments


• Easy configuration using settings panel (part of the admin area)

API Requirements

• Apache2 server


• PHP 5.1.6+


• MySQL (mysqli support)


• (Windows/IIS is experimental)


• Server capable of sending mail (i.e. sendmail) OR


• Access to a STMP server (ie gmail or your own server)