I’ve been watching the Freeway Moments Video Tutorial, Episode 18 - Easy Feedback Forms (really well done). Then I started building my form. Everything went like clockwork until I got to the point where I was to insert the Page->Page Actions->PHP feedback form. It’s not there. (I’m using FWPro 5.5).
The page actions menu in the video is identical to mine, except . . . in the menu on the video the PHP feedback form is the last item on the menu. I have installed the moo suite of four actions and they are the last items on the menu. Could they have knocked out the PHP feedback form menu item?
Bottom line is, where did the feedback form action go and how can I get it back?
On 7 Jan 2011, at 20:19, Martin Rice email@hidden wrote:
I’ve been watching the Freeway Moments Video Tutorial, Episode 18 - Easy Feedback Forms (really well done). Then I started building my form. Everything went like clockwork until I got to the point where I was to insert the Page->Page Actions->PHP feedback form. It’s not there. (I’m using FWPro 5.5).
The page actions menu in the video is identical to mine, except . . . in the menu on the video the PHP feedback form is the last item on the menu. I have installed the moo suite of four actions and they are the last items on the menu. Could they have knocked out the PHP feedback form menu item?
Bottom line is, where did the feedback form action go and how can I get it back?
On 7 Jan 2011, at 20:19, Martin Rice email@hidden wrote:
I’ve been watching the Freeway Moments Video Tutorial, Episode 18 - Easy Feedback Forms (really well done). Then I started building my form. Everything went like clockwork until I got to the point where I was to insert the Page->Page Actions->PHP feedback form. It’s not there. (I’m using FWPro 5.5).
The page actions menu in the video is identical to mine, except . . . in the menu on the video the PHP feedback form is the last item on the menu. I have installed the moo suite of four actions and they are the last items on the menu. Could they have knocked out the PHP feedback form menu item?
Bottom line is, where did the feedback form action go and how can I get it back?
Also note that it states in the tutorial (unless it has been changed since I watched it) that you should change the page suffix to .php This is NOT the case - the PHP code is generated in a separate file so the page itself is a standard HTML page.
If you change the page to .php then you lose the ability to preview locally.
Yes, it still does say to change the suffix to .php. The narrator does also say, however, that you can’t preview it locally. Following your message, I didn’t change it.
Thanks for the tip.
Martin
On Jan 7, 2011, at 6:23 PM, DeltaDave wrote:
Also note that it states in the tutorial (unless it has been changed since I watched it) that you should change the page suffix to .php This is NOT the case - the PHP code is generated in a separate file so the page itself is a standard HTML page.
If you change the page to .php then you lose the ability to preview locally.
I’ve followed this one very carefully and now changed the Contact page suffix to .html but am still only getting the Error page on my site whenever I try to test the Feedback form.
1st thing to do. Is set up a separate error page for each error ie server error, not in domain error, email error etc
The easy way of doing this is by duplicating your current error page and put big text across it for each error type then make sure you set up each of these new error pages as the appropriate one to go to when the form fails.
This is a temporary measure until we track down the problem.
Also make sure that your input fields are named correctly in the inspector ie name and email (not Name and Email) - this will allow the action to correctly identify the input.
Once you have done that then reupload and see which error page you get.
Very important detail about this: the name you see written in the left-
most tab of the Inspector (labeled Title) is meaningless in this
context. The only user-editable name that matters when creating a form
field is the third tab from the left. That field is labeled Name, and
that’s what tells the server “I want to call this input item ‘X’”.
Without that, you have a mess.
Walter
On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:37 AM, DeltaDave wrote:
Also make sure that your input fields are named correctly in the
inspector ie name and email (not Name and Email) - this will allow
the action to correctly identify the input.
“Also make sure that your input fields are named correctly in the inspector ie name and email (not Name and Email) - this will allow the action to correctly identify the input.”
That was the first thing I checked and sure enough, they had capitals letters. I changed them and voila! Works like a charm. Many thanks, Dave!