(Sep 15th, 2011, 3:06 AM)Mark Wrote: Hi hockey2112,

Firstly, welcome to the Form Tools community!

Form Tools is designed to act as a backend tool to collect and manage the data collected by your EXISTING web form. It provides your website with a backend database and a user-friendly interface to manage the form submission data, plus a wealth of tools for managing and manipulating your form data.

You need to create your form in your existing Web Design Software package (or in code) then point the destination of the form to your Form Tools installation. You will need to have already created a new 'External' form within your installation, and added all the fields you have on your website.

I understand that Ben (the founder and main developer) plans to release a Form Builder module in the near future. This will automatically generate the HTML code to insert into your website.

Many thanks,

- Mark

(Sep 15th, 2011, 8:09 AM)Mark Wrote: Hi hockey2112,

Thanks for the link. I've had a look over your code for your 'Contact Us' form for you. I think you need to make a few minor changes and the data should send into your Form Tools installation :-)


In your code you have the following:

Code:

<form action="http://www.__________.com/formtools/process.php" method="post" name="contactus" id="contactus">
<input name="form_tools_form_id" type="hidden" value="1">

Now let's compare it to an example code from the documentation:

Code:

<form action="www.__________.com/formtools/process.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="form_tools_initialize_form" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="form_tools_form_id" value="X" />

You need to leave the form_tools_initialize_form input in your code to allow the first Test Submission to go through.

Also, I'm not completely sure how Dreamweaver works but you may need to remove the name="contactus" id="contactus" from your code.

Give these a go and let me know how you get on!

- Mark