• Multi-page forms !

With conditional pages and save and continue support.

• Paypal support
• ‘Conditional’ page sections: hide/show a section of the form
  based on conditions
• Conditional recipients (for ‘form to email’)
• Loading drop-down lists from database
• Cascaded lists (Changing one dropdown list loads other)
• Better/easier calculation fields.
• ‘Value maps’ for calculation fields
• Online preview of the forms
• ‘Test and preview the form’ before upload

More info

Click here to download Simfatic Forms 4.0 Beta

Please submit your feedback here

Here is an extension module that checks the database to see that the email was not submitted before.

Please note that ‘Save to database table’ should be enabled in the ‘form processing options page. ( The email submission is checked against the database table entries )

Steps:

• Download the extension module
• Open the file UniqueEmail.php in a text editor.
  scroll down to the line /*database details*/ and update the
  database details. Save the file.
• In Simfatic Forms, ‘Enable extension modules’ in the ‘form processing options’ page and press ‘Next’
• In the extension modules page, press ‘add module’ and select UniqueEmail.php
• re-upload the form

Here is an extension module to password protect your form.

Usage:
Download the extension module.
Open the file pwdprotect.php in any text editor (like Notepad)
Edit the user name/passwords. The format is like this: ‘username’=>’password’

function PasswordProtect()
{
    //username => password
    $this->logins = array('pmj'=>'p',
                'prasanth'=>'sim');
}

In Simfatic Forms, Enable ‘Extension Modules’ (Form processing options page)
In the ‘Extension modules’ page, press the ‘Add module’ button and select your updated pwdprotect.php file
Re-upload the form

Now, when you open the form page, your browser will show a box asking for username and password

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.

In the PHP configuration file (php.ini) we are supposed to set the default time zone setting like this. Usually, the hosting service provider or web server administrator will set this while configuring the web server. If they missed it, you will get this error.

More information:
date.timezone
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/739376.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/forums/forum/72909/topic/2683543

One way to get this error corrected is to request your web server admin to fix the time zone settings.

If the admins don’t help, try this extension module below. It sets the date.timezone settings before the rest of the script is run.

• Download the ‘CorrectTimeZone’ extension module
• Open the file in a text editor and change the line:
  ini_set('date.timezone','Europe/London');
  to your time zone. See the list of all valid time zones here
• In Simfatic Forms->’form processing options’ page, enable extension modules
• In the extension modules page, do ‘Add Module’ and select the file CorrectTimeZone.php
• upload the form

The current version of Simfatic Forms (3.2) does not have the feature to set a condition for sending the email.

However, we have extension modules for rescue. Extension modules can be used to extend or change the behavior of the server side script. (See: extension modules in Simfatic Forms help.)

First, we need a place-holder email address in the ‘recipients’ list

In the setting above, dept@user5.com is the place-holder email.

The extension module

The extension module is written in PHP. Download the sample extension module here.
You can edit the extension module in any text editor.

Here is how it works:
The extension module overrides call-back function BeforeSendingFormSubmissionEMail(). When the script is sending the form submission email, it will call BeforeSendingFormSubmissionEMail() , for each of the recipients. Here, we can change the recipient address, just before the email is sent.
We check the selected value of the ‘department’ drop down and update the recipient to the corresponding email:
The code is not that complicated.

function BeforeSendingFormSubmissionEMail(
        &$receipient,&$subject,&$body)
{
    if(false !== strpos($receipient,'Admin'))
    {
        //Admin gets all the emails!
        return true;
    }
    elseif(false !== strpos($receipient,'dept@user5.com'))
    {
        $dept = $this->formvars['Department'];

        switch($dept)
        {
        case 'Sales':
            $receipient = 'Sales<sales@user5.com>';
            break;
        case 'Service':
            $receipient = 'Service<service@user5.com>';
            break;
        case 'Technical':
            $receipient = 'Technical<technical@user5.com>';
            break;
        case 'Billing':
            $receipient = 'Billing<billing@user5.com>';
            break;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

You can edit the extension module and customize it for your needs.

Loading the extension module

First, enable extension modules in the ‘form processing options’ page.

Then, in the extension modules page, press the ‘Add module’ button and select the extension module (edited and made ready – above)

Proceed to ‘take the code’ page and upload the form.

Download

conditional-email.zip
The .zip file contains the extension module and a Simfatic Forms template file of the form used to create and test this extension module.

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.

Download Simfatic Forms 3.2

Here is the list of changes in Simfatic Forms 3.2

1. Custom Client side code can now be added
   (header, footer, custom css )
2. ‘Load value from URL’ setting in Options dialog box
3. More extension module call backs: auto-response, form mail and file uploads
4. Added hyperlink object
5. Fixed date validation error for certain date formats
6. Displays a placeholder if the image file is missing
7. Removed (PHP 5) deprecated code constructs from PHP code
8. The tab order is followed for ordering the elements in the
   rest of the pages (validation, form to email etc)
9. More bug fixes

All those who have a license for Simfatic Forms 3.0 or 3.1 can upgrade to Simfatic Forms 3.2 for free. Your existing license key will work with Simfatic Forms 3.2.

Download Simfatic Forms 3.2

Let me know your feedback.

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.

Here is a brief roundup of the changes in 3.2 beta

• Custom Client side code can now be added
  (header, footer, custom CSS )
• ‘Load value from URL’ setting in Options dialog box
• More extension module call backs: auto-response, form mail and file uploads
• Added hyperlink object
• Fixed date validation error for certain date formats
• Displays a placeholder if the image file is missing
• removed (PHP 5) deprecated code constructs from PHP code
• The tab order is followed for ordering the elements in the
  rest of the pages (validation, form to email etc)
• and more!

Proceed to this page for more details and download

As always, all active Beta participants will get free Simfatic Forms licenses.

Take care of a few things though:

• Use this Beta version for testing only
• Before opening existing form designs (the fwz file), take a backup of the file

Please do try this new release and let me know your feedback. It is your comments that shape Simfatic Forms.

Here are the troubleshooting steps:

1. Make sure that the ‘From’ Field is a proper email address

In the ‘Take the code’ step, ‘Email settings’ page enter a simple email address that belongs to the same domain where the form is uploaded. For example, if you are uploading the form to www.myteastall.com, the from address should be like forms@myteastall.com or info@myteastall.com (but not myteastall@gmail.com)

2. If using SMTP, make sure that the login is correct

Please note that using SMTP option in the ‘Email settings’ page is optional. If you do want to use the SMTP option, make sure the login details are entered accurate.

3. Simfatic Forms’ own diagnostics

Simfatic Forms contains certain diagnostic features that point you to the settings. In the Take the Code page, if you see a link as shown below, take a moment to click and see what Simfatic Forms’ has got to suggest.

4. May be it is the webserver

If you tried all these and still no emails, perhaps there is something wrong in the webserver configuration.
What we can do is to test and see whether a simple PHP script can email from your website. Download the script from the link below; follow the instructions to test the script.
samplemail.zip

• unzip the file samplemail.zip
• Open the samplemail.php file in a text editor and replace email address with your email address.



• Save and Upload samplemail.php to your website (just like you would upload any web page).
• Now, access the uploaded script in your browser.

It should send you a sample email. If not, there is something wrong in your webserver configuration. Post a support ticket to your web hosting support saying:
“Hey! it seems there is some problem with the PHP mail configuration. A simple PHP mail script like this: (give a link to the script you uploaded) doesn’t work!” and let them troubleshoot.

Or just drop me a line posting this form and I am here to help you!
Do remember to attach the Simfatic Forms file (file with extension .fwz) ( do File->Save as from Simfatic Forms to get the fwz file) to your support request.

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?

1. Add the Date Picker fields

First, add the date picker fields and name them as StartDate and EndDate.

2. Add a calculation field DateDiffFromToday

We need to find out the days between today (the day on which the form is filled out) and the start date. Add a calculation field and name it say, DateDiffFromToday. We can use the calculation function days_from_today() .
The formula is:
days_from_today(StartDate)

2. Add another calculation field DateDiff

We need to find the number of days between StartDate and EndDate. Add a calculation field DateDiff and use the function days_between() in the formula.
Formula:
days_between(Enddate, StartDate)

We can make the calculation fields hidden if the value need not be shown to the user.

3. Validations

First, StartDate should be after Today.

Similarly, we can validate the EndDate to be after StartDate.

The StartDate should be within 350 days from the day the form is filled in. So the value of DateDiffFromToday (the calculation field) should be less than 350, but greater than 0.

The days between StartDate and EndDate should be less than 15.

Putting it together, we have all the validations this way:

You can download the sample form fwz (Simfatic Forms project) file here.

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.

First, add the email field and the ‘confirm email’ fields to your form.

Proceed to the ‘Input Validations’ page.

Select the ConfirmEmail field on the left side
Select the ‘Comparisons’ tab on the right side.
Press the ‘Add’ button.

Select ‘Equal To’ and choose the ‘Email’ field

You may also like to change the error string.
Select the “=Email” validation node and update the error string.

Done!

Note that the comparison validations can be extended further (like a < b > y)