Jul 14th, 2015, 2:32 AM
1st Question (this is my opinion)
Formtool is a tool to create a flat file SQL table so that you do not have to issue SQL command to perform tasks. As a bonus, you have a very simple form within Formtool for you to enter data (you'll be needing a view or allow data to be deleted or edited in order to do so). There's also API to roll your own solution using Formtool.
If you want a fancy form (with all the bells and whistles of UI/UX and client side validation), I'd suggest you create your own HTML form (noob like me, I use free online form generator and point that form to my Formtool form). My experience, I always create my own form and point to Formtool URL process.php. Then I create a form in Formtool and in creating the new form I use External Form. From that point, I just follow the Formtool instruction.
2nd Question
I used pass-on flag so that the value of the field will be passed on to the Redirect URL of each successful submission. eg. My Redirect URL is thankyou.php and I have a field called "name" in the form that is marked as pass-on. In my thankyou.php, I read the value of "name" and display it in the html, eg. Thank you "John" for the info.
Formtool is a tool to create a flat file SQL table so that you do not have to issue SQL command to perform tasks. As a bonus, you have a very simple form within Formtool for you to enter data (you'll be needing a view or allow data to be deleted or edited in order to do so). There's also API to roll your own solution using Formtool.
If you want a fancy form (with all the bells and whistles of UI/UX and client side validation), I'd suggest you create your own HTML form (noob like me, I use free online form generator and point that form to my Formtool form). My experience, I always create my own form and point to Formtool URL process.php. Then I create a form in Formtool and in creating the new form I use External Form. From that point, I just follow the Formtool instruction.
2nd Question
I used pass-on flag so that the value of the field will be passed on to the Redirect URL of each successful submission. eg. My Redirect URL is thankyou.php and I have a field called "name" in the form that is marked as pass-on. In my thankyou.php, I read the value of "name" and display it in the html, eg. Thank you "John" for the info.