How can TextPattern create the other kind of forms?

jriemerm · 2006-05-02 19:22:49

I’m trying to figure out how to create custom forms within textpattern, and not the special meaning of forms within the textpattern system.

In other words, a form with multiple fields of multiple kinds—text, text area, radio buttons, pulldowns, etc… Ideally one that would have an option for saving submissions as data and/or sending as an email to designated email/s.

Is there a plugin for this, or a built-in feature I can’t find? I’m having a hard time searching for it because textpattern has its own special meaning for the term “form”.

thanks,

james

NyteOwl · 2006-05-02 19:38:31

If I understand what you’re asking; you can create HTML forms either directly in a page structure or in a TXP form and then include the form on the page.

jriemerm · 2006-05-02 20:24:28

Thanks, I can certainly create HTML forms, but simply dropping in the form code wouldn’t work unless there was a form-handling script behind the scenes that the form code would call, right? Something to accept the values and insert them in a database and/or send them as an e-mail. Are there any tools or plugins for that?

I’ve worked with a number of different form handling PHP scripts, as well as CMSs that have a script for handling forms built in.

zem · 2006-05-02 22:16:04

You can put PHP code for handling form input directly in a page template, or in a plugin.

You’ll find some helpful Textpattern functions in the lib directory, like ps().

jriemerm · 2006-05-02 22:23:53

Thanks, Alex. Unfortunately, I’m not even a novice programmer. If someone had developed a plugin for the purpose I’d use it, but creating a form handler is well beyond my skills.

zem · 2006-05-02 22:32:14

A form handler will almost always need some kind of code, since someone has to tell it what to do.

If you’re just looking for a form handler that sends an email, see here.

els · 2006-05-02 22:35:29

zem_contact_reborn has some more features than zem’s original plugin, maybe it could be a starting point for you?

jriemerm · 2006-05-02 23:11:12

Thanks, I’ll look into that. I’m also wondering if textpattern might work well for integrating a call to <a href=“http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39625&package_id=48885”>tfmail</a>, a real powerful perl form handling script I used to use and love. It worked great for me until I started using a CMS, which I couldn’t integrate it into. Fortunately that CMS also had a form-builder plugin of its own. It sounds like textpattern might be more flexible for integrating calls to other scripts.

Last edited by jriemerm (2006-05-02 23:21:06)

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How can TextPattern create the other kind of forms?

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