[Snippet] eForm - The Electronic form Snippet

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  sottwell Reply #151, 20 years, 2 months ago

  Um... no, I just did it that way. The select didn’t have the eform="..." at all, and I wasn’t sure where to put it so I just started sticking in places to see what would work. I’ll do a quick check to see if it still works if it’s not required. Ok, it works fine if it’s 0 (not required).
  
  By the way, you might be interested to know that I’ve added a small hack to make it possible to recover the form data when returning from another page, when the data is loaded into the SESSION. I put this just before the return formMerge(...) for building the form:
  

  	# get SESSION data
  		if(isset($_SESSION['value']['critical_value'])) {
  			foreach($_SESSION['value'] as $name => $value) {
  				$fields[$name] = $value;
  			}
  		}

  
  This way, after checking for a critical SESSION value, it loads up the SESSION values in place of POST values. Now if the user has navigated to a different page, he can return either with the browser’s back button or a specific "back to form" link, and his form will be populated.
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  Ryan Thrash Reply #152, 20 years, 2 months ago

  Susan, assuming that goes in the eform.inc.php file, I’ll commit this to our SVN repository along with the rest of my collected fixes.
  
  Also, any other tweaks that would make it work better (you’ve made or that are needed that is)?
  
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  sottwell Reply #153, 20 years, 2 months ago

  I don’t think that this should be part of the core package. I just found it useful under certain circumstances; if the data are not in the SESSION it won’t do any good, not to mention that the value that is tested would be very specific to each application.
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  sottwell Reply #154, 20 years, 1 month ago

  I just noticed that eForm isn’t in the repository!
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  xwisdom Reply #155, 20 years, 1 month ago

  I’ll add version 2.0 to the Repository.
  
  Quote from: sottwell at Aug 11, 2006, 01:07 AM

  
  I just noticed that eForm isn’t in the repository!
  
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  TheBear Reply #156, 20 years, 1 month ago

  I think I’ll wait for version 2.0 before I try figure this snippet out! Looking forward to it
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  sottwell Reply #157, 20 years, 1 month ago

  I use the eFormParser class files with the latest eForm snippet (as taken from the links on the first post) and it’s a beauty. Since it uses custom tag attributes it won’t validate on the W3C validation page, but that’s no problem for me.
  
  I haven’t actually implemented the event interrupts yet, but they will come in very handy.
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  TobyL Reply #158, 20 years, 1 month ago

  Quote from: sottwell at Aug 15, 2006, 03:06 AM

  
  Since it uses custom tag attributes it won’t validate on the W3C validation page, but that’s no problem for me.
  

  
  The custom attribute should not impact on W3C validation. The eform attribute is stripped from the tags before the form is added to the output. or have I missed something?
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  sottwell Reply #159, 20 years, 1 month ago

  No, you didn’t, I was just clicking the "reply" button before putting my mind in gear. Sorry about that!
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  Si Reply #160, 20 years, 1 month ago

  Any luck with getting the version 2 into the downloads section?
  I really want to start using it but I’m nervous of all the links and hacks on the first post of this thread!
  
  Does the form offer any SMAP protection?... I have two websites that use email forms and SPAMbots have started using them to send SPAM.
  What would you recommend I do to stop them?
  Does the eForm come with CAPTCHA?
  
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