The user response to version 3.0 has been great! The demo site is being used extensively, we're getting around 15,000 unique visitors every day on average.
We have received a lot of feedback from users as well. There are a couple of things that I would like to point out. The check box field has an issue when used with the MySQL database storage option. We will have that resolved soon. It works fine with just e-mail delivery though, so users can continue using that option. Secondly, the file storage option has not yet been implemented. We're working out the proper format schema for that, and it should be available soon.
We got a number of requests of certain specialized features. Please understand that in order to support creation of arbitrary forms the generator has to be as generic as possible. Due to this, forms that implement special behavior that you may want cannot be created. For example, one user asked for a radio button type that would disable all the rest of the form fields. To him, this might make sense. But some other user might want only the next field to be disabled, or the next two fields, or maybe the previous fields. The point is that all these possible cases cannot be enumerated. Even if they could, giving the user a million options to choose from is not desirable. Therefore, please avoid suggestions like these. A good feature request would be something like the following. One of the users requested to have field value verification for decimal numbers. He is using this to gather the latitude and longitude values in his form, and the users were mistakingly entering the coordinates in their own formats. This sort of request is a good one, because its general enough and can be used in lots of different contexts.
Lastly, we are planning on starting a service with phpFormGenerator 3.0. This service will allow users to create forms that will be hosted on our servers, so the user does not have to purchase additional web hosting. The user will be able to host other website files as well. In addition, each form that the user creates will come with a comprehensive reporting system that will provide various statistics about the form usage.
We are still in the planning stage, and once we have additional information it will be posted on the forums.
The downloadable version of phpFormGenerator v3.0 will be released as soon as the known bugs have been fixed.
Thanks
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The user response to version 3.0 has been great! The demo site is being used extensively, we're getting around 15,000 unique visitors every day on average.
We have received a lot of feedback from users as well. There are a couple of things that I would like to point out. The check box field has an issue when used with the MySQL database storage option. We will have that resolved soon. It works fine with just e-mail delivery though, so users can continue using that option. Secondly, the file storage option has not yet been implemented. We're working out the proper format schema for that, and it should be available soon.
We got a number of requests of certain specialized features. Please understand that in order to support creation of arbitrary forms the generator has to be as generic as possible. Due to this, forms that implement special behavior that you may want cannot be created. For example, one user asked for a radio button type that would disable all the rest of the form fields. To him, this might make sense. But some other user might want only the next field to be disabled, or the next two fields, or maybe the previous fields. The point is that all these possible cases cannot be enumerated. Even if they could, giving the user a million options to choose from is not desirable. Therefore, please avoid suggestions like these. A good feature request would be something like the following. One of the users requested to have field value verification for decimal numbers. He is using this to gather the latitude and longitude values in his form, and the users were mistakingly entering the coordinates in their own formats. This sort of request is a good one, because its general enough and can be used in lots of different contexts.
Lastly, we are planning on starting a service with phpFormGenerator 3.0. This service will allow users to create forms that will be hosted on our servers, so the user does not have to purchase additional web hosting. The user will be able to host other website files as well. In addition, each form that the user creates will come with a comprehensive reporting system that will provide various statistics about the form usage.
We are still in the planning stage, and once we have additional information it will be posted on the forums.
The downloadable version of phpFormGenerator v3.0 will be released as soon as the known bugs have been fixed.
Thanks