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