[request] Form Builder : based off of zem_reborn?

squaredeye · 2006-09-07 17:11:05

Their are often times when I’d like to be able to create a form
or have someone I build a site for, create a form on their own.

I’m not sure quite what this would take, and it may be rediculous,
but I felt like a form builder similar, but more lightweight than
wufoo or Form Builder would be really helpful.

I could pledge about $50 US to this, but I imagine its worth more
than that, and would love to drum up some support.

I foresee it using the Zem_Contact_reborn code base, but allowing
for a user interface for building a form.

marios · 2006-09-07 19:10:31

I’m with you, fantastic Idea,

regards, marios

hakjoon · 2006-09-07 19:35:47

Would you want it to save out the html form or a zem_contact_reborn form? How much flexibility in field placement would you anticipate being needed? Would it need support for conditionals, pre-defined fields?

btw, did you get my email on removing the breaks?

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slabanosa · 2006-09-09 16:36:46

+1
I’d be great to have that

squaredeye · 2006-09-09 21:31:08

Patrick,
I did not see that you had posted here. Good to see you around.
Yep, got your email :) funny about reading, you have to do it, before you understand something.

For this plugin, I imagine being able to select from a list of possible fields: ie:

email
text
radio button
check box
etc

Then a series of preferences to fill out for that field

required
label
max or min
name
etc

Things like class might be a pref
that had a default set by admin?

Then two buttons:

save and publish
save and add another

Something like that.
I don’t expect it to be too fancy really,
just something with some basics.

Not unlike the tag builder that TXP curently uses in the Page
area of the admin.

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Can you give me an example of a conditional and a pre-defined field?

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Marios and slabanosa,
Glad you think its a good idea.
Do you have some mula bula to back that
up? :)

marios · 2006-09-09 23:13:12

@ matthew,

What is a Mula Bula ?

regards, marios

squaredeye · 2006-09-09 23:18:06

:)))))
That’s very funny.

Mula, slang for money :)

hakjoon · 2006-09-09 23:29:50

ma_smith wrote:
Can you give me an example of a conditional and a pre-defined field?

Predefined would be something like a list of countries or states something like that. Conditionals would be like show this field if field A is checked.

The predefined I think could be done in a way that libraries could be built for it which could be nice. Conditionals can be kind of a pain.

I wrote a form builder while I was at UVa so I have some experience writing something like this, unfortunately it was for Coldfusion but it was fairly backend independent. I kind of wanted to re-write it a little cleaner using some newer libraries so this could be fun. I just have to check some compatibility things because we based it all around XML to represent the forms and I need to check for safari compatibility (we only worried about IE and Mozilla)

squaredeye · 2006-09-09 23:35:12

ahhh, cool
I think folks would be up to seeing whatever you come up with Patrick.
Conditionals would be nice, but I think that there are probably ways to
work around it?

dunno?

Let me know what else you need to start thinking more about this/ doing it :)

zem · 2006-09-13 01:33:36

Just FYI: Bannister is essentially a form processing framework, based on similar ideas to zem_contact. It doesn’t have a form builder UI, but it serves the same basic purpose (separating form and function).

squaredeye · 2006-09-13 01:38:53

Alex,
Good to know. For a non-coder, that means to me that someone who knew some XHTML / CSS / JS could throw together a form builder?
Is that correct? Or would this be the work of a PHP coder? Excited to see that. Thanks man.

wet · 2006-09-13 12:53:14

Possibly related and inspirational: Web Form Factory.

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