correct way to process a form

Hi,

I’m looking to find out the correct ’modx’ way to go about displaying and processing a form which will:
* take a number of text/textarea fields
* put the data into a database table with corresponding columns for each field
* upload an image in the process.

Should I create a snippet, which uses some external code, one function of which generates the form, and another function of which processes the form?

If I use a snippet to call up the form, how do I specify the action of the form. Should I create a new page which calls up the function to process the form, and use this page as the action of the form.

Just doesn’t seem very modxy to me...

Just looking for some guidelines

thanks
subd

For generating the Form use eForm snippet. Very easy to use

You can send email with it;but instead of sending the info by email you could use modx API to insert data into a new table.

Or the best starting point at the moment is to use the eForm2db snippet but you’ll have to work a bit to set things up...

nice, I will have a look

I made a snippet (read eform plugin) that does that bassed on the eform2db
this my call(s)

the code and class I used is in the zip
I also made a snippet that gets the values from the db (a bit like Ditto) with placeholders and a chunk

Great Dimmy that’s just what I needed ! I am downloading and will report when I have toyed with it

thanks for the replies. And say if one of the fields was a file to upload an image - any ideas how I might do this?

Thanks

Dimmy; Thanks for posting this. I am very interested in seeing how this works but I could not open the attachment. It decompresses the folders without the files. Is anyone else having this problem?

Extracting from /Desktop/eform2db_image.rar

Creating /Desktop/assets OK
Creating /Desktop/assets/snippets OK
Creating /Desktop/assets/snippets/fotowedstrijd OK
Extracting /Desktop/assets/snippets/fotowedstrijd/snapshot.class.php  67%
assets/snippets/fotowedstrijd/snapshot.class.php - CRC failed
Unexpected end of archive
Total errors: 2

subd: this is what the code submited by Dimmy is intended to handle. In theory I think you would use eForm and run a function to handle the image upload. eForm allows you to work with the form data in various stages during the processing (after its captured but before it is processed, or after validation but before sending). There are some examples in the documentation located with the snippet code in /assets/shippets/eform/docs/

Dimmy; Thanks for posting this. I am very interested in seeing how this works but I could not open the attachment. It decompresses the folders without the files. Is anyone else having this problem?

Yep, I’m getting the same problem. Dimmy, please could you post the archive again? Thanks.

OK i changed it it the first reply i made to a ZIP maybe thats better.

Its commented in dutch but I could translate it if its not clear.
be sure to create a database table with the right cells

Dimmy