Forms design for web pages - what's available?

[Andrew Farris]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 09:07 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:53:07PM -0600, Andrew Farris wrote:
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> > Give PHPformgen a try... http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/
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> I've had a play with it, I suppose it's OK but it's not very flexible
> in some ways is it.  Lots of ways to change the 'look and feel' (i.e.
> colours etc.) but no way to actually rearrange the fields on the form
> or to allow connecting it to a database.  .... or is that what it
> means by the database "Delivery method"?  It sounds as if it just
> writes the PHP code to a database field though.

For rearranging the fields on the form, I just edit the html page it
spits out and cut-paste them manually to where I want, if they need to
be arranged, though I admit I've rarely had to do this, as I'm perfectly
happy with how it currently works...just re-theme them to match my
website better.

As for delivering the form data to a database, yes, thats what the
database delivery method is for... I'm fairly certian it just dumps the
form data into a pre-defined SQL table, not raw php data... I've only
ever used the email method myself because I've got no idea how to do SQL
stuff yet, and I haven't had time to learn. 

I also haven't really looked around for much else by way of a form
generator, because phpformgen did the 1 biggest thing for me I needed it
to: arranged it so I could email the form contents to myself...and for
my simple purposes, it's enough.

-- 
Andrew
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