Built my form... now what?

[hockey2112]

First off, let me say that I am brand new to Form Tools. I successfully installed the software and created my first form, but I cannot find how I actually add the form to a page on my website. I'm sure I am just missing something obvious, but it is driving me nuts! Help!!

Thanks!

[Mark]

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

[hockey2112]

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

Mark,

Thanks for your feedback, I think I understand it a little better now.

I created a very basic contact form in Dreamweaver and uploaded it to the website. However, the submit button is not working. I'm wondering if there is an issue with how I have the "action" set up. Can you (or anyone else here) please take a look and let me know if I am doing something incorrectly?

http://tinyurl.com/4x7ps7k

Thanks!

---EDIT---

I got the submit button to work, but now I receive the error message "Sorry, this doesn't appear to be a valid form ID.". Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks again!


---YET ANOTHER EDIT---

I got it working! The problem was that I had a form ID of "1" in my code, but the form was actually ID 2 (I had created and deleted a form before creating my current form).

[Mark]

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

[hockey2112]

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

Mark,

Thanks for your help. The problem was that I had a form ID of "1" in my code, but the form was actually ID 2 (I had created and deleted a form before creating my current form). It is now working perfectly!

[Mark]

No problem!

- Mark

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