[Pro] employment application form

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Hi guys,

It has been a while since my last post, you can tell by the freeway version I am working at the moment,so bear with me. I was wondering what will be the best way to create the same form or similar to the example link. I have never created a form like this.The form is an employment application form in which users submit their info to the company offering the job with upload file capabilities, so here is the deal:

1.If you look at the example the form has 4 columns: 2 descriptor columns(name,email,address,etc) and 2 input fields columns in the same table. Can this be done and work properly, even if added more columns-6-8?.

2.The form has to have fields to upload files like resume, cover letter.
Can this type of form be created without the need for a cms or database?

3.I know there is a upload file and upload extras actions. Can the use of these actions do the job without the cms/database?How can I implement those actions?-I’ve never used them before.

4.“THIS ONE IS very important” there will be a social security number input field which I’d like it to work like password encrypted. How do I encrypt or hide the typed info?

Any suggestions/solutions will be greatly appreciated.

cheers,

Carlos


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On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Carlos Bobadilla wrote:

5.4 Pro

Hi guys,

It has been a while since my last post, you can tell by the freeway version I am working at the moment,so bear with me. I was wondering what will be the best way to create the same form or similar to the example link. I have never created a form like this.The form is an employment application form in which users submit their info to the company offering the job with upload file capabilities, so here is the deal:

1.If you look at the example the form has 4 columns: 2 descriptor columns(name,email,address,etc) and 2 input fields columns in the same table. Can this be done and work properly, even if added more columns-6-8?.

I don’t see a link to the example here…

2.The form has to have fields to upload files like resume, cover letter.
Can this type of form be created without the need for a cms or database?

You will need a file handler on the server to accept the file and store it somewhere. You can create a file upload form in Freeway with no additional Actions or code, but the file will go exactly nowhere on your server – it will just be dropped in the /tmp folder and deleted by the server when the request completes. You should know, however, that file upload scripts are one of the easiest places for a server to be attacked. If this is a shared server, you may be responsible for the livelihood of hundreds or thousands of other people when you enable this feature. If this is a Virtual Private Server (VPS) then you can certainly take this leap without concern for anyone but yourself, but then you do still have to worry about the Net at large – once the hackers take over your server, they will zombify it and use it to attack other machines, or to send SPAM or worse.

3.I know there is a upload file and upload extras actions. Can the use of these actions do the job without the cms/database?How can I implement those actions?-I’ve never used them before.

These are used within Freeway to upload additional files to your server when you publish your site, they do not handle form-uploaded files.

4.“THIS ONE IS very important” there will be a social security number input field which I’d like it to work like password encrypted. How do I encrypt or hide the typed info?

You can make it a password field, but this won’t encrypt the data – it will just make it harder for someone to snoop over your shoulder and read it. (My bank does this, and I find it really annoying. I have a hard enough time typing out the account number – do I have to do it with my eyes closed, too?) Unless you get a SSL certificate for the server, and host this form under HTTPS, you will be sending SS#s over the wire “in the clear”, which is fairly irresponsible.

Any suggestions/solutions will be greatly appreciated.

You might want to look at FormsToGo, which has a great set of tools for this sort of thing. Their form handler can accept file uploads, although I have not vetted it for attack vectors.

Walter


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Thanks Walter for your response.

So it seems I will need a third party like forms to go to create a functional form right?

I posted twice this thread because I forgot to attach the example link, so here is the link if you like to see what I am aiming with the form.

http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH12/ats/careers/apply.jsp?org=MASTERCORPINC&cws=1


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So it seems I will need a third party like forms to go to create a functional form right?

Absolutely not - FW can create a functional form but the security risks and extra hoops that you will have to jump through make it far easier and safer to use a Service if you want to deal with uploads and proper encryption.

Another you might want to consider is http://www.wufoo.com/

They handle the security for you.

David


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Thanks David,

So in this case can I use the PHP feedback action to process the form and have the third party service to handle the security?

I’ll take a look at wufoo.com

cheers,

carlos


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For a form such as this let the Service (whichever you choose) handle it all.

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