Stable version of MPForm ( Multi Purpose Form)

[FrankH]

and I would love to see a regular text area field for "in-between" texts

Argos, it is already there and it is called html field.
But it is only for people who are able to use their mind  
You know, some people love tables and others love div forms.
So if you want to put something between the fields, you have, of course,

• at first close your table or div or whatever you have
• write the extra content
• at last reopen your table or div or whatever you have

The module won't do it for you, to give you the maximum level of freedom in your design.

[Argos]

and I would love to see a regular text area field for "in-between" texts

Argos, it is already there and it is called html field.
But it is only for people who are able to use their mind  
You know, some people love tables and others love div forms.
So if you want to put something between the fields, you have, of course,

• at first close your table or div or whatever you have
• write the extra content
• at last reopen your table or div or whatever you have

The module won't do it for you, to give you the maximum level of freedom in your design.

Yes, I know how the html field works, I aleady found out that myself. But it's not user friendly for two reasons:
1. you have to add markup code, which I cannot expect my clients to do when they create forms
2. when you do use markup, it works fine in the form, but it messes up the output, because then the markup has not the context of the form anymore, but of the website and/or email.

Try it and see for yourself...

[FrankH]

1. you have to add markup code, which I cannot expect my clients to do when they create forms
2. when you do use markup, it works fine in the form, but it messes up the output, because then the markup has not the context of the form anymore, but of the website and/or email.

1. Sure, only people who know what html code looks like should use html code fields. Others could use the title field.
2. I see your point. You can change lines 407 and 408 of evalform.php: Just replace htmlspecialchars_de code with strip_tags.

[melissa]

Just installed this module so that I could have a file upload which was immediately emailed, and I must say this module is wonderful!

Thankyou very much! Worked perfectly!

[donv]

I've been using MPForm quite a bit lately!  Frank, you have made my wedding preparations go much easier (for instance, we are using MPForm on our wedding site to collect guests' reception replies and meal selections, etc.).

Feature Request:

I am also using your csv export module to download the results from MPForm.  When I do, the file comes with the first few columns having "real" field names, but the rest have names like "field 6".  This makes it challenging to know what data is what in those fields.

Could you include in the next version the capability to set the mySQL field names for each field in the backend?  Or, if that is hard to do, could you set it for there to be an option to have the field descriptions from the backend stored also as the first row of data in the table?

Thanks again for a great module!

[JonH]

Where do I download this module??

Edit: found it: http://wbdemo.heysoft.de/pages/en/mpform.php?lang=EN

[Boudi]

Hi,

For the 1st time I'm working on a multipage form. I come accross multiple issues:

- My multiform has 3 pages. I receive 3 emails with data. In tha admin on every mf-page there's a filled out field too. I only want 1 email with all the data and 1 fileld out form in the back-end. Otherwise you go crazy with all those fields in different emails and on different pages in the backend..
- I tested the 'check data before sending' with your documentation but I could it not get it to work.

Besides these issues, is it possible to hide input fields but when you click a button they will appear?
Is there any way to set input fields horizontal too?

Lots of questions, hope for an answer.

Best regards,
Boudi

[Kwb]

Hi,

For the 1st time I'm working on a multipage form. I come accross multiple issues:

- My multiform has 3 pages. I receive 3 emails with data. In tha admin on every mf-page there's a filled out field too. I only want 1 email with all the data and 1 fileld out form in the back-end. Otherwise you go crazy with all those fields in different emails and on different pages in the backend..

I have the same problem too, I'd like to know how to solve this one.
My configuration is fine, all pages have the same suffixtable which was enter before adding any field...

[Argos]

Frank, deleting submissions from the backend does not delete the actual entry from the database. When using the Export CSV module all deleted submissions are present in the CSV file.

BTW, is it possible for the CSV export file to show dates/times in human readable format, instead of Unix format? And also to use field names instead of field1, field2 etc?

[Argos]

*BUMP*   

[Availor]

Hello,

1. Here is a Hebrew translation attached.
2. I am having problems with the capcha - I tried it on different sites with different capcha types (text, picture etc...) the form doesn't work (it says the value is incorrect) - anyone else has the same problem?

Cheers

[Kwb]

Hello,

1. Here is a Hebrew translation attached.
2. I am having problems with the capcha - I tried it on different sites with different capcha types (text, picture etc...) the form doesn't work (it says the value is incorrect) - anyone else has the same problem?

Cheers

I think everybody have this issue... There was somewhere a fix for this... But I tried it and this screwed up the captcha part... So i decided not to use anymore the CAPTCHA verification

[Boudi]

Hi,

- My multiform has 3 pages. I receive 3 emails with data. In tha admin on every mf-page there's a filled out field too. I only want 1 email with all the data and 1 fileld out form in the back-end. Otherwise you go crazy with all those fields in different emails and on different pages in the backend..

Anyone?

Regards,

Boudi

[YellowFellow]

Hi everyone,

this is my 1st post here and I'm a newbie with CMS and WB.
I've got my 1st site running quite well but as it should be expanded to multilingual I wanted to use MPF instead of the (well running) standard form.

Installing worked fine and I could build a 1st form with it.
Had table troubel with both form modules and figured out that it didn't come from the form css but the default.css where I added a table style for an info table. fixed that (built it as a class instead of global values) and everything looked fine - but the MPF 

While the standard form shows up correctly now, the MPF only shows up when created new and empty (captcha field is shown). When I create any field and reload, my site is cut below the header (no background, no captcha, nothing shown but the tiled website background).

Deinstalled and reinstalled sites & module but didn't work. Seems the fields keep stored anyhow so that might be the problem (no clean deinstall - when I copy fields the new install counts up where the old one ended).

Do I have to clean some php-strings within the db or what could it be?? ??

[Argos]

I think this issue has come up before. Please check previous postst this same thread.

[Availor]

Boudi: There is actualyl this very nice module: http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/09/28/webform-wizard-jquery.aspx - it looks like this (hebrew version - click the blue box)  http://htm.co.il/lab/formWizard/
It needs fields and legend tags to use. The only problem implementing it in MPform is the submit button must have an id. The submit button id can be added through the footer, but the table id cannot be added from a client side without implementing some code (which I don't know how to do).

I tried doing some workaround using javascript getElemntByName instead of id to create tabs from fields.... no luck yet.

[Boudi]

Nice jquery mod May be an idea for Erpe to get this as a WB plugin? The problem with this jquery is is that it hasn't all the flexibility of MPform.

The great advantage of mpform is it's flexibility. There are only a few minor things left and the multiform is one of them.

Thnq for answering. 

Boudi

[erpe]

<off_topic>
Hi Boudi

it does not really make sense to use this plugin for mpform (from my point of view).

But I used this plugin to try it on the wb-installer.
I like it, see the image here:
http://www.websitebaker2.org/forum/index.php/topic,17705.msg122497.html#msg122497

rgds

erpe
</off_topic>

[LuuQ]

Hi

Currently I'm using MPForm for all my forms, it's just great!

There's just one thing I don't like:
When I add a WYSIWYG section below the MPForm section, then there's a template error.

The structure is like this:

- First WYSIWYG section
- MPForm section
- Second WYSIWYG section

When I have this, the second WYSIWYG section is on the right-hand-side of the MPForm section, it's like floating to the right.

Maybe I can show this with a picture:



When this happens, I cannot edit the second WYSIWYG section, because there's no horizontal scrollbar. So what I do to evade this mistake is to add another WYSIWYG section. This section is displayed correctly, so I can work with it.

I'd be happy if this were fixed.


Thank you very much!

Best regards,

LuuQ

[FrankH]

Hi LuuQ,

did you try another backend theme?
With what theme(s) does the problem occur?

What happens, when you (for testing only) use a form section instead of the mpform section?

[LuuQ]

did you try another backend theme?
With what theme(s) does the problem occur?

What happens, when you (for testing only) use a form section instead of the mpform section?

CMS Version 2.8.1
Revision 1287
Admin version 1.4

I use the Argos backend theme. When I use the standard theme (wb_theme), the same error occurs. So it doesn't depend on the admin template.
When I use the normal form module instead of MPForm, there's no error.
I tried it with a code section after the MPForm: no displaying error.
I use TinyMCE (version 3.3.7) as an editor, but when I change the settings to HTMLArea or no editor, then it's displayed correctly, so only with TinyMCE the error occurs.

Thank you for your efforts!

LuuQ

[daydreamer]

Hi I'm using MPForm with bakery as it shows which product is being enquired about via the referer page.
Is there anyway that it can take the product title from the product and put it in the subject

Thanks

[masarin]

Swedish language file.

I would like to contribute to this nice module with a Swedish language file.

[sky writer]

First, thanks for the great module.  I have used it on many sites, and it's served me and my clients well.

I had never had the need for a multi-page form, or the loop function... until now.

I have a simple form.  The first page asks for some personal data, then asks a question.  If you answer "yes" then it is to go to the next page, which is the loop page.  Then it loops through that page until you answer "no" to the final question on the page.  Then it goes to a WYSIWYG page thanking you for filling out the form.

I followed the instructions on your site for the loop, but it goes straight from the first page to the "Thank You" page no matter how I answer the "loop" question.

I did this:
    *  On the page which comes before the looping page, you put an option field "Do you have any children" with the possible answers Yes and No.
    * On the page with the loop, you put an option field "Do you have more children" with the possible answers Yes and No as last question.
    * In the file private.php you find a function private_function_on _success. I already prepared it so all you need to do is set the 8 predefined variables with the correct values. You find all those values in the Backend of MPForm.

Has anyone else had success with this?  Is this not a working function of the form?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[FrankH]

Double check those 8 values, especially value $prev_cond.
This one needs to match the value you see in the html source code of the first part of the form in your browser for the decision field.
For instance when the relevant part of the source code looks like

Code:

<input class='nform_radio' type='radio' id='id26_3' name='f26' value='1'   />
<label for='id26_3' class='radio_label'>one</label>

the $prev_cond must match "1", not "one"