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2008-01-11
2013-04-17
  • jason

    jason - 2008-01-11

    Has anyone toyed with the idea of a form module. Basically a way to easily administer contact and survey(more indepth that a poll) forms.

    Just curious.

    Jason

     
    • Geert Eltink

      Geert Eltink - 2008-01-17

      I have a module for a contact system. Need to rewrite it for 0.8.
      Do you have some details or an example of a survey from?

       
    • jason

      jason - 2008-01-17

      best example i have right now..
      my newspaper has a survey form, that i have added a link to in the header of my props cms

      http://timesocurier.com/question.html

      its a basic html form , that uses a hacked version of matt's formmail.pl script as the backend.

       
      • jason

        jason - 2008-01-17

        correction:

        example is here

        http://www.timecourier.com/question.html

         
    • jason

      jason - 2008-01-17

      damn!

      third time is the charm!

      http://timescourier.com/question.html

       
      • Geert Eltink

        Geert Eltink - 2008-01-24

        I get it. Looks like something like a multiple poll. Think I can figure out something like this.

         
    • jason

      jason - 2008-01-28

      I found a work around for now.
      Of course, i had to recode how the main menu was called. BUT, It works just the same. 

      I simply added two sub sections labeled "submit ad" and "thank you ad".They were placed inside the section called classifieds. then I built a page using displaysection.html, and called the external cgi script.

      seems to work fine.

      Jason

       
      • Geert Eltink

        Geert Eltink - 2008-01-30

        Have you a link to page so I can see what you mean?

         
    • jason

      jason - 2008-01-31

      Sure.

      http://timescourier.com/?cmd=displaysection&section_id=50&format=html

      I added "place ad" and "thank you ad" sections as a subsections to "contact us".

      i.e

      frontpage > contact us > place ad
                             > thank you ad

      Then in my templates folder i added sub folders for both, each with a displaysection.html. the display section houses the folder which is running of a hacked version(per my host) of Matt's Scripts Formmail.pl.  
      So far its working good. I have the same type of setup in 4 different areas(obit ad,classified ad, contact ad, letter to the editor).

      The main menu was rebuilt using YUI Menu Builder, from yahoo. if your not familiar with it, its a js menu using div tags, in this case, they are placed in the header.inc right before the call for the side bar.

      like i said before not pretty but effective.

      Jason

       

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