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For the complete novice using Freeway 4 Pro, is PHP easiForm the recommended way of creating forms?
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Philip Lock


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It is one recommended method another one is Tim Plumb’s PHP Feedback Form

http://www.freewayactions.com/

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Thank you David
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On 11/03/2008, at 8:33 AM, DeltaDave wrote:

It is one recommended method another one is Tim Plumb’s PHP
Feedback Form

http://www.freewayactions.com/

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On 10 Mar. 2008, 6:58 am, Philip Lock wrote:

For the complete novice using Freeway 4 Pro, is PHP easiForm the recommended way of creating forms?
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Philip Lock

Philip - I just successfully used easiForm to install form pages for my wife’s website. It took a bit of trial and error but it now works exactly as I’d hoped. You can see it in action by going to www.huguettemay.com and clicking on “contact Huguette” at the bottom of any site page. I’d be happy to share my experiences with you so you can avoid the same mistakes.

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Guys and girls, this might be a good thread for a couple of tips on your form layout, in many cases it can really help the form layout to build your form elements into a table…

a) Make a table with 3 cells across.

a) Make the left column about 130 px wide. (Use these cells for element text titles)

c) Make the next second column about 10 px wide. (Spacer column)

d) Make the third column about 300 px wide. (Use this for your form elements)

e) Make each row about 24 high except for the row the text area will be used in.

f) Use the very top row for any text like (Fields marked with * should be… etc)

g) Leave a 5 to 8 px row blank between this text row and the first form element item row.

h) Do the same between the last form element row and your Submit button row.

i) Use the ‘Form Element Styler’ action to give your form fields some style, e.g. width 200, height 16, border-width: 1, border-color: cccccc, note the comments textarea should have a height such as 50 or 60 rather than 16.
http://www.easibase.com/freeway/freewayactions.php
You can play around with the colours and widths and even field background colours. Note: if using the field background-color option then the fields need to be smaller in height and width on your form ‘in Freeway’ than you have set them in the action so as to stop background colour bleed out to the size Freeway has the elements drawn.

You will be amazed at the difference in how your forms look just by doing the above.

Notes:

Now it can also help to select all the * cells * you have a form element and title text in then set them to Align middle under ‘Paragraph’ in the inspector window. You won’t need to do this with a textarea or it’s title text as the text will then drop to the middle of the text area and doesn’t look right so in other words do this for everything else apart from textareas.

If using the PHP easiForm actions then the ‘PHP easiForm Errors’ action can be applied to the * actual cell * for step f) as can the ‘PHP easiCaptcha’ action although if doing this then make sure you give the * cells * that these actions are applied to a style so the text they output is styled to the same as your form.

Hope this helps


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Sometime around 12/3/08 (at 04:29 -0400) Mike B said:

Guys and girls, this might be a good thread for a couple of tips on
your form layout, in many cases it can really help the form layout
to build your form elements into a table…

I agree entirely. Controlling the layout of form elements is one of
the very few times that I think making an actual table structure
object in the layout is justified.

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Thank you for the offer Tom. Apart from the technology behind the
form, I very much like the look of the form and the site as a whole.
I just have a little matter of a missing action folder to sort out
first.
Philip Lock

On 12/03/2008, at 3:21 PM, Tom May wrote:

On 10 Mar. 2008, 6:58 am, Philip Lock wrote:

For the complete novice using Freeway 4 Pro, is PHP easiForm the
recommended way of creating forms?
Thanks
Philip Lock

Philip - I just successfully used easiForm to install form pages
for my wife’s website. It took a bit of trial and error but it now
works exactly as I’d hoped. You can see it in action by going to
www.huguettemay.com and clicking on “contact Huguette” at the
bottom of any site page. I’d be happy to share my experiences with
you so you can avoid the same mistakes.

Tom


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Rather than “justifiable” I would say it’s “forgivable”. :wink:

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Keith Martin wrote:

I agree entirely. Controlling the layout of form elements is one of
the very few times that I think making an actual table structure
object in the layout is justified.


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