zealott · October 30, 2017 21:30
diff --git a/Controller.cs b/Controller.cs
 public class CustomFormController : CMSPageDefaultController
 {
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult FormSubmit(FormCollection collection)
    {
        try
        {
            //set our string builder
            var csv = new StringBuilder();
            //get our form elements
            var firstName = collection["first_name"];
            var lastName = collection["last_name"];
            var email = collection["email"];
            var phoneNumber = collection["phone_number"];
            var programName = collection["program_name"];
            var pageName = collection["page_name"];
            
            //format our csv line and add to csv
            var newLine = string.Format("{0},{1},{2},{3},{4}", firstName, lastName, email, phoneNumber, programName);
            csv.AppendLine(newLine);
            
            //get ftp values from web config
            string ftpUser = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FTPUser"];
            string ftpPass = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FTPPW"];
            string ftpLocation = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FTPLocation"];
            string address = @"ftp://" + ftpLocation + "/" + pageName +
                             DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH-mm-ss") + ".txt";

            // Get the object used to communicate with the server.
            FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(address);
            request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;

            // set the credentials
            request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(ftpUser, ftpPass);

            byte[] fileContents = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(csv.ToString());
            request.ContentLength = fileContents.Length;

            Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
            requestStream.Write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length);
            requestStream.Close();

            FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            response.Close();
        } 
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            //get error url from web config and redirect
            string errorUrl = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ErrorURL"];
            return Redirect(errorUrl);
        }
        
        //on success redirect to success url in this version it is from the 
        //form, could be from the web config
        var redirectUrl = collection["redirect_url"];
        return Redirect(redirectUrl);
    }

    protected override ActionResult handleCmsPageRequestWithRemainingPath(CMSPageRequest pageRequest, string remainingPath)
    {

        ViewData["RemaingPath"] = remainingPath;
        return View(pageRequest);
    }
 }
diff --git a/Form Data Write to File via FTP b/Form Data Write to File via FTP
 The task is to collect data from a form and write each submission to it's own 
 uniquely identified text file using ftp protocol. To accomplish this we need to 
 set some variables on the webconfig to allow the customer flexibility with ftp
 credentials and location. 
diff --git a/ViewWithForm.cs b/ViewWithForm.cs
 string thisUrl = _Functions.ThisPageUrl(Model as ICMSPage, Url) + Model.ID + ".xml";
 string pageName = Model.GetAttributeValue("Name");

 //Url.Action("ControllerActionName", "ControllerName")
 <form class="contact" method="post" action="@Url.Action("FormSubmit", "LandingPageForm")">
  <input type="text" placeholder="first name" name="first_name" required>
  <input type="text" placeholder="last name" name="last_name" required>
  <input type="text" placeholder="email" name="email" required>
  <input type="text" placeholder="phone number" name="phone_number">
  <input type="text" placeholder="program name" name="program_name" required>
  <input type="hidden" name="page_name" value="@pageName" />
  <input type="hidden" name="redirect_url" value="@thisUrl" />
  <input type="submit" placeholder="submit">
 </form>
diff --git a/web.config b/web.config
 <appSettings>
    <add key="ErrorURL" value="errorUrlValue"/>
    <add key="FTPUser" value="ftpUserNameValue"/>
    <add key="FTPPW" value="ftpPasswordValue"/>
    <add key="FTPLocation" value="ftpAddressValue"/>
 </appSettings>
	public class CustomFormController : CMSPageDefaultController
	{
	[HttpPost]
	public ActionResult FormSubmit(FormCollection collection)
	{
	try
	{
	//set our string builder
	var csv = new StringBuilder();
	//get our form elements
	var firstName = collection["first_name"];
	var lastName = collection["last_name"];
	var email = collection["email"];
	var phoneNumber = collection["phone_number"];
	var programName = collection["program_name"];
	var pageName = collection["page_name"];

	//format our csv line and add to csv
	var newLine = string.Format("{0},{1},{2},{3},{4}", firstName, lastName, email, phoneNumber, programName);
	csv.AppendLine(newLine);

	//get ftp values from web config
	string ftpUser = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FTPUser"];
	string ftpPass = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FTPPW"];
	string ftpLocation = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FTPLocation"];
	string address = @"ftp://" + ftpLocation + "/" + pageName +
	DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH-mm-ss") + ".txt";

	// Get the object used to communicate with the server.
	FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(address);
	request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;

	// set the credentials
	request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(ftpUser, ftpPass);

	byte[] fileContents = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(csv.ToString());
	request.ContentLength = fileContents.Length;

	Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
	requestStream.Write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length);
	requestStream.Close();

	FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
	response.Close();
	}
	catch(Exception e)
	{
	//get error url from web config and redirect
	string errorUrl = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ErrorURL"];
	return Redirect(errorUrl);
	}

	//on success redirect to success url in this version it is from the
	//form, could be from the web config
	var redirectUrl = collection["redirect_url"];
	return Redirect(redirectUrl);
	}

	protected override ActionResult handleCmsPageRequestWithRemainingPath(CMSPageRequest pageRequest, string remainingPath)
	{

	ViewData["RemaingPath"] = remainingPath;
	return View(pageRequest);
	}
	}
	The task is to collect data from a form and write each submission to it's own
	uniquely identified text file using ftp protocol. To accomplish this we need to
	set some variables on the webconfig to allow the customer flexibility with ftp
	credentials and location.
	string thisUrl = _Functions.ThisPageUrl(Model as ICMSPage, Url) + Model.ID + ".xml";
	string pageName = Model.GetAttributeValue("Name");

	//Url.Action("ControllerActionName", "ControllerName")
	<form class="contact" method="post" action="@Url.Action("FormSubmit", "LandingPageForm")">
	<input type="text" placeholder="first name" name="first_name" required>
	<input type="text" placeholder="last name" name="last_name" required>
	<input type="text" placeholder="email" name="email" required>
	<input type="text" placeholder="phone number" name="phone_number">
	<input type="text" placeholder="program name" name="program_name" required>
	<input type="hidden" name="page_name" value="@pageName" />
	<input type="hidden" name="redirect_url" value="@thisUrl" />
	<input type="submit" placeholder="submit">
	</form>
	<appSettings>
	<add key="ErrorURL" value="errorUrlValue"/>
	<add key="FTPUser" value="ftpUserNameValue"/>
	<add key="FTPPW" value="ftpPasswordValue"/>
	<add key="FTPLocation" value="ftpAddressValue"/>
	</appSettings>