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#1 2007-02-14 20:18:07

anoke
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Registered: 2006-04-15
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Organising multiple contact forms?

I’m making a site requiring many different contact/feedback forms. Not 1 or 2, think 10 or 20. I have no idea how to organise these as I’d like keeping sections to the minimum.

Zem_contact with chs_if_urlvar perhaps? Or checking against article ids?

Any ideas or tips?


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#2 2007-02-14 20:26:53

mrdale
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Re: Organising multiple contact forms?

What is different about each form?

Perhaps you could use asy_wondertag to customize one form for different circumstances…

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#3 2007-02-14 20:36:58

anoke
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Re: Organising multiple contact forms?

Ah – Sorry, my fault. Not a form as in <txp:article form="foo" /> but as in <form><input /><textarea></textarea></form> , hence zem_contact.


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#4 2007-02-14 20:55:04

mrdale
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Re: Organising multiple contact forms?

>anoke

No problem, I understood you. Sometimes you can use “tags within tags” to greatly simplify your setup…

So how different are the forms from each other and how do they differ?

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#5 2007-02-14 21:17:24

anoke
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Re: Organising multiple contact forms?

Well, the form designs are still out there but they can vary from a few textareas to 4-5 dropdowns and a bunch of radio buttons. Mostly nothing is shared between the forms. It’s not that the forms themselves are diffcult, there’s just many of them.

For “one liners” I can use comments. For bigger ones there’s PDF (though I’ve never collected FDF datat..). I’m mostly lost in the middle ground.


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#6 2007-02-14 21:30:32

mrdale
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Re: Organising multiple contact forms?

Alright-ee. That seems like a challenge. I don’t really have much of a suggestion other than putting each call into a “TXP form”, naming them with a prefix “webform-” and calling them with an “output-form” tag. All no-brainer suggestions that I’m sure you’re already doing.

If they do share form content, you can save some redundancy this way too.

Sorry not to be more help.

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#7 2007-02-15 06:06:45

anoke
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Re: Organising multiple contact forms?

NP, sometimes these just take time. And it helps when the problems are said out loud. (:


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