We've just released version 1.01 of the Form Generator plugin which fixes an issue that caused dates to be saved in the wrong format in some circumstances. 

If you have purchased the plugin, you can download the latest version from your My Purchases page. 

Thanks,

Looks great but Is there a timeframe on the upload field option?

Greets Maurice

Take a look at this post http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2239658. It might lead to a solution on the email question or maybe a similar type of code is the culprit. Also make sure that the mail address used for the return is real and preferably on the same account.

For anyone interested, here's the CMSB Cookbook recipe on how to add Google's new  I'm not a Robot recaptcha  to a page and a download link for the basic code necessary. http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com.

IMPLEMENTING GOOGLE’S NEW, “I’M NOT A ROBOT”, NO CAPTCHA, RECAPTCHA IN A FORM - Apr 30th, 2015

With a lot of help from Greg Thomas and Dave Edis, here’s how to implement the Google’s new, “I’m Not A
Robot”, No CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA in a CMSB Form.

You can download 2 sample viewers from http://thecmsbcookbook.com/downloads/google-robot-captcha.zip

Both incorporate the code required to implement reCAPTCHA.

One contains a very simple form, and demonstrates a bare bones implementation.
The other is the Sample User Signup Form viewer that's generated by the Website Membership Plugin. This viewer
demonstrates a more complex implementation with error checking.

The 5 step implementation for both viewers is the same.

1) Log in to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#list 
2) Register your web site. (if you want to get alerts from Google if they detect problems with your site, such as
misconfiguration errors or an increase in suspicious traffic, leave the “get alerts” checkbox checked.)
3) A Site Key and Secret Key will be generated, copy them to a safe (secret) place.
4) Enter the 2 Keys as noted in the viewer code.
5) Enter your “Server Path” in the load viewer library code at the top of the viewer code.

You should be good to go.

Right now there are only a few “Themes” available to change the look of the check box. They are data-theme="dark"
and data-theme="light", and are changed in the <div> where you entered your site key.

You can learn more about Google’s No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA at: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/

Hope that helps

Jerry Kornbluth

Thanks for your feedback and questions so far!  We're really glad to see this plugin being so well received already!  

I just wanted to clarify a few points:

• Redirects on submit - You can redirect to any url, anywhere, by entering that URL in the code generator options (or show a text message instead).  
• Ajax on submit - It doesn't do that, but you could add some code to do that
• Sending Emails - It doesn't do this yet, so you have to add the code.  We'll almost certainly add this in future (but only buy the plugin for what it does now, not what future versions might do).
• Captcha - Doesn't do that, but I love that idea and will put that on our list.

Other custom changes/requests - Our intention with this first release is to automate 90% of the work in creating forms (and in many cases 100%).  So anything you could when creating a custom form you could still do, and you can save multiple hours of work either way.

Hope that helps!  Let me know any questions, thanks!

Thanks for the reply.  I have a question or two for you? Are the "standard code snippets" you are using ones from the CMSB forums or from another source?  I've been using part of CMSB with some standard snippets to do this for several years - but about 5 days ago, on multiple sites (on GoDaddy hosting but not the same hosting accounts - separate clients) the system still works (data goes into CMSB database, the thank you message page reroute) EXCEPT for the email portion.  No emails are being sent out.  It seems like a fundamental shift or block on the strings of code needed for that email function to work.

Thanks for any and all replies and assistance.

Thanks for posting.  I'll go over your questions one at a time.

1. Form Generator does not include captcha by default.  Once you've generated the code for your add form though, you can add in the captcha yourself. We do this ourselves quite often. 

If you'd like to go over this in more detail, get everything setup that you already can with the plugin (ie: generate your code, put that into a .php file, etc) and let me know. It will work best if you create a whole new forum thread so we can keep the conversation organized.

2. The "Thank You" page is just another .php on your site. It could even be a link to some other site if you want.

Let me know any questions.

I've a couple of questions...

1. Does it includes some kind of captcha in order to prevent spam?

2. and I'll like to know how does it works with the Thank you page, is that an additional page or is this ajax based? (Basically for tracking purposes)

Thanks and I'm happy to hear this kind of news and see this additions to this amazing tool (CMSB) 

Kenny

Thanks for posting.

You can set the redirect page to any URL you like.  That can be another form and even a completely different site.

One way to look at all this is Form Generator will generate the basic code you need and from there, you can modify it any way you like.

For example, you could modify the redirect so it passes values from the form just submitted to the next form you are linking to like this:

// on success
redirectBrowserToURL("http://www.site.com/myOtherForm.php?name=". @$_REQUEST['name']);

My example is based on the default code generated and assumes you have a field on your first form called "name".

Does that make sense?

If you'd like to discuss this further, feel free to start a new forum thread and we can continue the conversation there.

Thanks!

Thanks for posting. 

We work with lots of forms that also send emails.  It's more advanced than what the plugin does by default but the plugin still gets you most of the way.

The link Tim posted has an example of the extra code you'll need and what you set up on the backend to tie it all together.

What you need to do is manually add the extra code from his link to your form. 

I typically add the code right after the code that inserts the new record in your database.  That way, the email doesn't get sent if for whatever reason the record doesn't get set.

If you'd like a hand with setting this up, do everything you can first (ie: install Form Generator, create your section, generate the basic add form, create the email template in CMS Builder, etc) and start a new thread so we can discuss.  It will help if you attach a copy of the form for me to review.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Steve

Regards

Kenny

By adding placeholders I can capture data from the form entry and use it in the email - works a treat.

This sounds terrific ~ and definitely necessary! I have one very important question after reviewing your screenshots of the options.  I have several clients that when they receive a form request, or an order via form, etc. they would like the website visitor that is submitting the form (the submitter) to automatically receive an email back with either a canned message or a message based upon the form fields that were submitted.  The choices after submission screenshot shows only "Reload page and display this message" or "redirect to this URL"...but what several clients are needing is to "send reply to submitter and then go to URL redirect" as an option.

IMHO, this is the best thing to come to CMSB for some time.

I was lucky enough to test some BETA versions, and I'm already using on a number of projects.  It saves me hours on each one.

Plus, it now means I'm happy to build additional form-based scenarios that I've previously tried to avoid due to the efforts involved in setting it up (and changes are always an issue).

Can't wait to see where everyone takes this!

We've just released a new plugin called of Form Generator!

And, wait for it... it generates forms! A common element of many websites is "add forms". Whether they are contact forms, surveys, timeclock reports, or just any kind of form where you need to capture user input and add it to a CMS database.

We've built literally hundreds of these. When we do custom work and consulting, there's usually at least a few on each website, and we manually create every field, every line of error checking code (required fields, etc), every bit of MySQL to insert the record into the database. And it is slow and tedious, let me tell you. We usually quote an hour for a basic form and it can easily take a few hours per form if there's lots of fields (and we're fast).

What this plugin does is automate that entire process. You just select a section you want to generate a form for, click the button, and it generates all the code for you. It supports almost all the CMS field types: text field, text box, list, checkboxes, date, etc. And also automatically generates error checking code that matches the CMS Field Editor. So you can make fields be required, unique, have min/max length requirements, only allow certain chars, etc. And it just works. It generates all the code for you which you can then edit and style as needed.

Also, as an ADVANCED feature, you can also create edit forms. So for a situation where you want logged in users to be able to edit records they've created, you can do that as well.

There's even more to it, but that should give you a good overview. This is a great plugin to either save you time creating forms you used to code by hand, or to enable you to create forms fast without knowing any programming.

We charge a minimum of $100 to create a basic form, so owning this plugin lets you add on more revenue stream. You can have just about anyone create forms in a few clicks instead of the hours it would usually take.

So give it a try, we think you'll love it! You can order and find out more here: plugin:
http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/form-generator/

And as always, let us know any questions or suggestions. Cheers!