I created a firm using the online demo, downloaded the zip file, unzipped files and and went to run install.php, but install.php isn't a php file, it's an html file, or at least the contents are html that appears to be the form.html file without the actual html for the form itself.
I'm running on localhost, apache server, xampp installation
Am I missing something? Sorry, not fluent in php, though I can site-read it well enough to more or less figure out what it's doing.
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1.) File extentions define file type, not file contents. The file extension is .php therefore this IS a php file.
2.) The file will only contain php code if you chose options that might require installation assistance, like MySQL.
3.) If you did not use any form features that require installation assistance then the install.php file will not do anything.
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OK, thanks, that explains it. I configured it to send email. I did get the mail function warning but I know from reading other threads on the topic that's because I don't have xammp's mail server running. I'll try it again today.
It's a pretty neat concept, and the only one of its type I could find. Everybody else wants to sell an online service to be the back end. I watched the video tutorial, which was very well done. But if I could make a suggestion, another video tutorial on setting up the server-side. There are enough questions being posted here that make me think users need a tutorial on what to do AFTER unzipping their files. I know it would have helped me. ;-)
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This is not a Web Server Support 101 forum. If your web host is setup with typical services then phpFormgenerator and generated forms will work.
If you want web server setup education then you will have to go somewhere else.
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Sorry, I just suggested it because I think it would make your product more marketable. As is, your intention seems to be to limit your target market. I see the intent of the form generator to be to make it easy to create a form. ie, to create a form without requiring any particular technical knowledge. It seems that carrying that one step further into also making it easy to use, ie also without requiring any technical knowledge, would complete and complement the concept.
As an added benefit, wouldn't it also reduce the number of questions posted here?
Just a thought……
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How do you suggest that this forum support any OS, any Web Sever, Any Web Server application set, and any user knowledge level? Don't you see how extensive this might be? It would be an enormous task and not something this forum is anywhere near prepared to do.
The only target market here is people who want a useful form generation tool for free, with free support for that tool!
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How do you suggest that this forum support any OS, any Web Sever, Any Web Server application set, and any user knowledge level? Don't you see how extensive this might be? It would be an enormous task and not something this forum is anywhere near prepared to do.
It's a good point, and yes I do, and it seems that's already what you're doing, and I thought my suggestion for another video tutorial might reduce the size of that task.
people who want a useful form generation too
These are the people who would benefit. It seems to me that giving a tool that reduces the need for technical knowledge and then requiring the tool users to have certain technical knowledge in order to use the tool is, well, odd. The people who have the expertise you require them to have are people who don't need the tool.
Just trying to offer useful ideas; I thought that was the purpose of a demo site. Sorry if they're not wanted. I'll shut up now and leave you alone. ;-)
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I guess at least I owe you some feedback on the form generator itself:
1) it worked perfectly in database mode.
2) it worked perfectly in file mode, with one exception: if the file does not already exist, I do not get an error message.
3) In email mode, I got the mail function error, and realizing it was because the email server was not configured and running, I did not pursue testing that.
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I created a firm using the online demo, downloaded the zip file, unzipped files and and went to run install.php, but install.php isn't a php file, it's an html file, or at least the contents are html that appears to be the form.html file without the actual html for the form itself.
I'm running on localhost, apache server, xampp installation
Am I missing something? Sorry, not fluent in php, though I can site-read it well enough to more or less figure out what it's doing.
1.) File extentions define file type, not file contents. The file extension is .php therefore this IS a php file.
2.) The file will only contain php code if you chose options that might require installation assistance, like MySQL.
3.) If you did not use any form features that require installation assistance then the install.php file will not do anything.
OK, thanks, that explains it. I configured it to send email. I did get the mail function warning but I know from reading other threads on the topic that's because I don't have xammp's mail server running. I'll try it again today.
It's a pretty neat concept, and the only one of its type I could find. Everybody else wants to sell an online service to be the back end. I watched the video tutorial, which was very well done. But if I could make a suggestion, another video tutorial on setting up the server-side. There are enough questions being posted here that make me think users need a tutorial on what to do AFTER unzipping their files. I know it would have helped me. ;-)
Regards…..
This is not a Web Server Support 101 forum. If your web host is setup with typical services then phpFormgenerator and generated forms will work.
If you want web server setup education then you will have to go somewhere else.
Sorry, I just suggested it because I think it would make your product more marketable. As is, your intention seems to be to limit your target market. I see the intent of the form generator to be to make it easy to create a form. ie, to create a form without requiring any particular technical knowledge. It seems that carrying that one step further into also making it easy to use, ie also without requiring any technical knowledge, would complete and complement the concept.
As an added benefit, wouldn't it also reduce the number of questions posted here?
Just a thought……
How do you suggest that this forum support any OS, any Web Sever, Any Web Server application set, and any user knowledge level? Don't you see how extensive this might be? It would be an enormous task and not something this forum is anywhere near prepared to do.
The only target market here is people who want a useful form generation tool for free, with free support for that tool!
It's a good point, and yes I do, and it seems that's already what you're doing, and I thought my suggestion for another video tutorial might reduce the size of that task.
These are the people who would benefit. It seems to me that giving a tool that reduces the need for technical knowledge and then requiring the tool users to have certain technical knowledge in order to use the tool is, well, odd. The people who have the expertise you require them to have are people who don't need the tool.
Just trying to offer useful ideas; I thought that was the purpose of a demo site. Sorry if they're not wanted. I'll shut up now and leave you alone. ;-)
I guess at least I owe you some feedback on the form generator itself:
1) it worked perfectly in database mode.
2) it worked perfectly in file mode, with one exception: if the file does not already exist, I do not get an error message.
3) In email mode, I got the mail function error, and realizing it was because the email server was not configured and running, I did not pursue testing that.