The new release comes with a number of exciting new features.
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Simfatic Forms 4.0 Beta Released!
December 17th, 2011Unique email validation for forms
September 26th, 2011Some forms require that the email submitted in the form to be unique. If the user has already submitted the form, the form should not be submitted again (with the same email, at least)
Here is an extension module that checks the database to see that the email was not submitted before.
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Simple password protection for forms
August 6th, 2011Sometimes, you would want to restrict your form to a limited set of users. Only those who have a password can submit the form.
Here is an extension module to password protect your form.
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Correcting error: date() It is not safe to rely on …
June 29th, 2011On some web servers, it throws this error when you upload Simfatic Forms script (or any other PHP script that uses PHP’s date() function)
Error (2): date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings..
You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier.
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‘Conditional’ Recipients
May 19th, 2011Suppose you want to send the form submission email conditionally, based on a form input.
For example, there is a ‘department’ drop down in the form. Depending on the selection in the drop down, the email should be sent to the corresponding address. (sales@mycompany.com, billing@mycompany.com etc)
Simfatic Forms 3.2 Released!
March 29th, 2011Simfatic Forms 3.2 is moving out of beta.
Although the beta was for a relatively shorter period, we received tons of excellent feedback. Thank you very much for all those participated in the beta.
Simfatic Forms 3.2 Beta Released
March 5th, 2011A new version of Simfatic Forms is available for download.
This version comes with a few features that makes it easier to customize the form. You can add custom header footer or CSS code to the generated pages.
Moreover, the extension modules can hook to more call backs now.
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No Emails from the form? Try these steps
December 15th, 2010You designed the form using Simfatic Forms and uploaded it successfully.
No problems so far. Easy, as a piece of cake!
You fill the form and submit. No errors too.
Then you wait and wait for the email … and it never arrives!
Sounds familiar? Here are the steps to troubleshoot.
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Complex Date Validations Made Simple
October 1st, 2010Here is the scenario:
“On your DatePicker, I desperately need the ability to have a start and end date picker, that I can set a value of Today + n days as the max date for StartDate, and then on the Endate + y days for a max on the EndDate.”
Example
1st Jan 2010 Is Today
StartDate: Max Start Date would be Today + N where N is 350 days.
EndDate: Beginning Date would be Startdate, Max for EndDate would be StartDate + Y. Where Y is 15 days.
So: 30th Dec 2010 would be OK as start date, and end date could be up to 14 Jan 2011.
How to do this in Simfatic Forms?
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How to add a ‘Confirm Email’ field
July 24th, 2010
It is common to have a validation that compares two fields in the form – Confirm Password, Confirm email and so on.
Some developers believe that this will ensure that the correct email/password is entered. Just like you, I also don’t like typing my email twice; but, since you asked, here is how to do it in Simfatic Forms.
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