Thank you for responding James. I am running FormBuilder v 0.80 and WordPress 2.7. It only happens when I try to customize the fields with my field names, values and labels. When I select to save the form, I get the “ERROR. Your form failed to save” message. I am able to place the standard from on the page but it will not save the field names I need or add a new field for me.

Hi,
any update on the csv download bug?
I still get the same result when trying to download the database in csv format:
HTTP 404 – File not found
Oops! This link appears to be broken.
http://www.swanconsulting.co.uk/wikiE:/domains/s/swanconsulting.co.uk/user/htdocs/wiki/wp-content/plugins/formbuilder/formbuilder_export_results.php

I am running WordPress 2.8 and FormBuilder 0.80, and am experiencing the same problem as Janice above, i.e. when I select to save the form, I get the “ERROR. Your form failed to save” message. That is with not making any changes to the newly created form.

Also related is the fact that I cannot create any autoresponders. I click “click here” in the autoresponder section and it just comes back with an empty list.

I’m getting the same error as leith white. I just switched to 8.0 today and I have the alternate e-mail handling enabled. Before I enabled the alternate email handling i still received a mail server error and it asks me to try enabling the alternate mail handling.

Plus, before I switched to 8.0 I was able to get the form to work as long as I didn’t have an e-mail field in the form. Then, just today before I switched, it stopped working even without the e-mail field.

Hi James,

I tried the alternate mail delivery, that didn’t work either. I even changed the recipient to a different email address. Any suggestions?

Hi James,

I get error messages like “ReferenceError: Can’t find variable: ajaxRequest” when leaving a field of the generated form (e.g. when jumping from one field to the next by pressing tab key).

I analysed this, and it seems to me that there is a single straight quote missing in $formInput definition in formbuilder.php (0.80): ajaxRequest(url,data,fieldname) in javascript.js expects three values, but values seem to be not properly handed over by the onblur event.

Basically the $formInput reads like this (extract):


onblur=\"ajaxRequest('" . $page_path . "formbuilder_parser.php', 'formid=" . $form['id'] . "&fieldid=" . $field['id'] . "&val='+\$F('field$divID'), 'formBuilderErrorSpace$divID')\"


More specific snippet:


val='+\$F('field$divID'),


This results in something like this (in the generated code):


val='+$F('fieldformBuilderFieldEmail'),


I’m wondering if it should be like this:


val='+$F('fieldformBuilderFieldEmail')',


(There’s an additional single straight quote before between the clösing bracket and the comma.)

This applies to:

[Line 567 (below case "small text area":)]
[Line 576 (below case "large text area":)]
[Line 581 (below case "password box":)]
[Line 755 (below default:)]

Again, I’m really sure, but if I change it to &val='+\$F('field$divID')', 'formBuilderErrorSpace$divID' it works at least for me without console errors.

Maybe you have a chance to look at it?

Thanks,
Stefan

P.S.: Please note that WP has changed straight quotes to curly quotes here in my code samples.

James, please ignore my post. I guess I was wrong there. However, with the standard &val='+\$F('field$divID'), Firebug tells me ajaxRequest is not defined.

The Firebug Script console tells me:

function onblur(event) {
ajaxRequest("http://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/formbuilder/formbuilder_parser.php", "formid=3&fieldid=13&val=" + $F("fieldformBuilderFieldName"), "formBuilderErrorSpaceformBuilderFieldName");
}


I don’t understand, if the generated val=" + $F("fieldformBuilderFieldName"), is what you had in mind and if it is correct that way.

Any ideas are much appreciated. In worst case: May I delete the onblur completely or will the cause too much trouble? Actually I do not need the “on the fly” error checking on onblur that urgently (nice but I could live without it if I can prevent javascript errors this way).

Thanks,
Stefan

hi,

today somebody recommended me formbuilder and it looks great. i think it might be able to do what i need. to make it do so i would need a question answered. (if possible for a non-programmer to execute

how can i have other variables transported as hidden fields. for example how can i get the article name where the form is included into the form. or any other variable from within the system.

how can i send the result ID (from the database) as hidden field in the email?

thanks a lot

cheers
timo

hi james,

thanks for your feedback.
is it possible to hire you for some integration tasks?

ciao
timo

Hi again, James.

First, let me say that you are doing an awesome job in keeping up with and responding to the feedback here.

I think I have a couple of more pieces of info that may help in tracking down the issues with a Windows-based install.

First, I believe the setting of variables FORMBUILDER_FILENAME and FORMBUILDER_PLUGIN_PATH may be problematic in Windows, as they include things like the drive letter, e.g. D:. This results in code being generated like this:

So, the stylesheet is not picked up as the url is invalid. On my Linux system, the generated code for this is:

Now, getting back to the issue with not being to create an autoresponder and not being able to update/save forms on my Windows system. I think this may be related to how the tables are defined in MySQL. On the Linux system, all table columns allow NULL values, while on the Windows system none of them allow NULL values. This may also be due to the slightly different versions of MSQL – 5.0.77-log on Linux and 5.0.37-community-NT on Windows.

Sorry for being so long-winded, but I was hoping this may help you.

Thanks again.

Hi

I love this plugin! Can I make a request? Since we can add a “Submit Button”. Can you create a “reset button” too? The purpose of this button is to clear all of the input fields.
Thanks!

Hi

This plugin is really useful. Thanks a lot for the builder.
I just want to ask a question..
How to send the form to multiple recipient?
I’ve tried to write in Recipient box:
username1@domain1.com; username2@domain2.com
but it didn’t work.
Does anyone have suggestion?
Thx

is it possible to prevent formbuilder from renaming my field names by adding formbuilder to them? I have my own post script and when formbuilder changes the form field ids the script wont work!

thanks

I administer a club and use Formbuilder [great Plugin by the way] to handle online entries to events.
Competitors complete the entry from and are then redirected to a payment page [Form Redirect - Redirect visitor to alternate page on submit. (no email)].
What I’d like to be able to do is the redirect of the competitor AND send me an email to advise that the competitor has entered the event.
At present I have 2 choices, send an email or redirect. Why not be able to offer a third choice of both??

Can you help with this James?
regards
Emmsee
Cairns, Australia

I’m trying to get formbuilder set up on my photoblog but I’m having an issue. I’m getting a connection-type error when I try sending the email. It happens with both the default and alternate paths. I’m hosting with GoDaddy’s shared linux environment and after contacting them, they said that I need to specify a certain mailserver for website form submissions. Their comments are below…but I don’t know how to set them with formbuilder:

In order to use a custom form mail script within our shared hosting
environment, you will need to ensure you specify the outgoing mail server to
relay-hosting.secureserver.net. This address is our outgoing relay server for use
with email being sent through a hosting account and it does not require that you
provide a user name and password to use.

I’m finding if I set up a hidden field and add a value, the value isn’t being sent.

Since I’m having my forms sent as XML and then trying to parse it elsewhere, being able to add an element in a hidden field to let me pass a message in XML would be very helpful.

It looks like this is a little bug. I suspect it should be easy to track down. I’ll try to do so.

Cheers,
D

Is there a way to add a file upload or attachment as part of a form so people could send you a file with a form submission?

Hello,
I have not been able to receive any emails via FormBuilder. After having tried all of the suggestions given in the FAQ, I decided to contact my hosting service. Here is what I was told.

“Ok, it’s using home contact-us as the method for the form mail that’s not correct no such location under /home/clwilla/public_html/puregrowthorganics that needs to reference the relative path to the script that will be processing the form data such as the form in http://www.hostgator.com/formmail.shtml”

I don’t know what that means, but he assures me that a change to the script should be simple. Can you help?

On my site, Form Builder .80 conflicts with my previously installed Featured Content Gallery 3.2.0 by keeping the content from loading.

James, I have another feature that would make Formbuilder a killer app. Formbuilder already has much of the functionality necessary for it to do the job of a basic survey generator. Here are some additional features (there may be more) that it would need to make this work:

1. An additional option to create radio buttons that are not pre-selected. This would be especially valuable for True/False and Yes/No questions.
2. An additional option to create radio buttons (or multiple check boxes) that are capable of multiple selection – as opposed to exclusive selection.
3. The ability to add a comment field that is linked to another field. So that a specific survey question can request a comment.
4. The ability to create a new field by copying and editing an existing one (much like Formbuilder already does with copying existing forms to create a new one). This would take some of the tedium out of survey form creation.

Once again,
Dad