What do I need for online forms?

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I have a PDF form at:

http://www.wacondatrader.com/traderclassified.html

That visitors have been using successfully. However, I realize that
some might not have a new enough of the Acrobat Reader to fill out the
PDF. Therefore, what do I need on my server to process a regular web
form to do the same thing? I think I can design the form in Freeway
sufficient enough, but obviously, there has to be a mechanism to send
the form for processing so that the information is emailed to an
address of my choosing.

Joe

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Hi Joe,

There are several options out there and there are a couple of Freeway
actions that will do this, I have one called easiForm that you can see
here: Tutorial: easiForm With Freeway

The easForm action file will install 3 actions:

  1. PHP easiForm - add one instance of this to your form page

  2. PHP easiForm Element - add one instance to each form element
    including the Submit button

  3. PHP easiForm Errors - add one instance to your form (Shows any user
    errors on required options).

To use easiForm your server will need to allow ioncube loaders, there
is the option to download this folder with the easiForm action. The
action suite is not free, there is a small cost per domain so one
license will permit as many forms as you like to be created on the
licensed domain. You have a bundle option for including the PHP
easiCaptch action, this is a CAPTCHA enhancment for your easiForm
forms, gives the option of an image captcha or a math question type.
PHP easiForm has an advanced option where you can select to have
confirmations, disallow badwords, stop html being sent, have a unique
subject reference number for every contact sent (Keeps email contact
threads together), form mesage/email can be sent to up to 4 addresses
plus the senders and more.

There is the free PHP feedback action which is another action option.

http://www.actionsforge.com/

There is FormsToGo which you need to set up yourself and there is a
small charge for the app.

http://www.bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/

There are also other form scripts out there, doing a search on
Hotscripts will turn more up but the ones above are probably the more
popular ones with Freeway.

HTH

On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Joe Sporleder wrote:

I have a PDF form at:

http://www.wacondatrader.com/traderclassified.html

That visitors have been using successfully. However, I realize that
some might not have a new enough of the Acrobat Reader to fill out
the PDF. Therefore, what do I need on my server to process a regular
web form to do the same thing? I think I can design the form in
Freeway sufficient enough, but obviously, there has to be a
mechanism to send the form for processing so that the information is
emailed to an address of my choosing.

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