I’m using FWP 5.5, just made my first feedback form following the Freeway moments video tutorial. When I upload my form in php, using the PHP Feedback Form action the font changes, which also messes up some of the spacing. Can anyone help me with this? Is there a newer or better action for this? Thanks so much!
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When I upload my form in php, using the PHP Feedback Form action the font changes, which also messes up some of the spacing.
Can you explain more what you mean - a link to your form online would help too.
BTW - contrary to the FW Moments video you do NOT need to rename your page .php - if you do that then you lose the ability to preview your page locally or within FW. Keep it .html
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Hi Dave,
The url is http://www.warwickkelly.com/testsite/contactati.php. (Pardon the lousy design, I have to match the client’s existing website).
The text was set all in Helvetica. As soon as I applied the action and uploaded it the font changed, in the browser and in the FWP page. I was able to correct the spacing problem by enlarging some text boxes but haven’t figured out how to get back the Helvetica font back.
Also, I’m finding an inconsistency with getting the email form reply back. I’m hosting on GoDaddy and set up the email response according to the info on their site. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, even when I keep the settings the same. I can always hit submit, get the success page but then no email back sometimes. Any ideas?
Thanks!
On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:19 PM, DeltaDave wrote:
When I upload my form in php, using the PHP Feedback Form action the font changes, which also messes up some of the spacing.
Can you explain more what you mean - a link to your form online would help too.
BTW - contrary to the FW Moments video you do NOT need to rename your page .php - if you do that then you lose the ability to preview your page locally or within FW. Keep it .html
David
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OK - you have a few problems with this page
1 This is the best time to use a table structure to create your form elements. Have a look at http://www.deltadesign.co/formtest.html
You will see that I use a table structure to hold the form elements together and aligned. This stops things going wonky when viewed at different text sizes.
Your page consists of individually drawn elements (Divs) that have no relation with each other - that is why your spacing goes to pot.
2 You only have Font styling (Arial, Helvetica) set on two of your styles BacktoHome and style5. You should set up a standard body style which all your text will then default to if not otherwise specified. I think there is a FW moments video on creating styles.
3 Your page does not have to end in .php it can be .html and you will then be able to preview your page within FW.
4 Look at Tim’s page at FreewayActions.com | PHP feedback form and read the section on Special Names. The critical ones are name and email note these are case sensitive. Look in the inspector third tab with these fields selected to see what you have in there.
5 GoDaddy - what can I say about GD. I wouldn’t host with them because of their idiosyncratic implementation of PHP. Don’t get me wrong, I use them for Domain Registration etc but as far as getting some industry standard php to run reliably…
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Thanks so much Dave, I worked on the page all day and found out about the styling and got that to work, had a few other problems but got them mostly straightened out. Yes, next time I will use tables, that will be much better, thanks for the link.
I like GoDaddy because they have great 24 hour phone support with really smart techie people, but their php has been problematic for me. Is there another host you’d recommend that would have good phone support as well as a php service that was more reliable?
Thanks again!
Emily
On Sep 18, 2011, at 5:43 PM, DeltaDave wrote:
OK - you have a few problems with this page
1 This is the best time to use a table structure to create your form elements. Have a look at http://www.deltadesign.co/formtest.html
You will see that I use a table structure to hold the form elements together and aligned. This stops things going wonky when viewed at different text sizes.
Your page consists of individually drawn elements (Divs) that have no relation with each other - that is why your spacing goes to pot.
2 You only have Font styling (Arial, Helvetica) set on two of your styles BacktoHome and style5. You should set up a standard body style which all your text will then default to if not otherwise specified. I think there is a FW moments video on creating styles.
3 Your page does not have to end in .php it can be .html and you will then be able to preview your page within FW.
4 Look at Tim’s page at FreewayActions.com | PHP feedback form and read the section on Special Names. The critical ones are name and email note these are case sensitive. Look in the inspector third tab with these fields selected to see what you have in there.
5 GoDaddy - what can I say about GD. I wouldn’t host with them because of their idiosyncratic implementation of PHP. Don’t get me wrong, I use them for Domain Registration etc but as far as getting some industry standard php to run reliably…
David
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Yes - glad you are working but you still have the same problem of text overlap if someone views your site at a slightly larger text size.
As for hosts with good phone support - personally I find that if the server is correctly configured then the calls/emails to support are few and far between.
It tends to be that most issues are nothing to do with the server at all but Operator Error.
D
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