Highlights:

Validation updates:

Format as currency in Calculation Field:

Popup Form:

The feedback received for the beta release so far is overwhelming ! Thank you so much.
Your feedback is shaping Simfatic Forms.

Here are the updates in this release:

• New Validation script. The error messages are displayed more interactively.
• Hyperlink now has a popup option
• File upload problems with IE solved
• The calculation field has ‘format as currency’ option
• new function :’age’ for calculations
• New form integration options; Popup form feature.

Simfatic Forms Beta release page

Click here to download Simfatic Forms 4.0 Beta 4

Looking forward for your comments and feedback

Here is the summary of updates in this new version:

• New in Form processing options: timezone & ‘allow load from URL’
• Fixed: CSS file gets cached by browser and form looks bad – prevents css files from caching
• New field: Unique ID
• Fixed: calculations involving multiple calculation fields not working
• Calculation fields available in conditions
• New feature: download the form submission CSV file from the form admin page

Simfatic Forms Beta release page

Click here to download Simfatic Forms 4.0 Beta 3

Coming up in next release: New and improved validation system!

This release also comes with a number of fixes as well.

Here is a brief overview of the updates:

• New File Upload widget, with preview support
• Fixed: section in combination with a drop down list does not work correctly.
• Fixed: section in single page forms does not work correct
• Fixed: Captcha does not work in Preview/on some servers
• Fixed: large image does not work with forms with sections
• Fixed: Form to email recipient list emails get truncated

More info

Click here to download Simfatic Forms 4.0 Beta 2

Please submit your feedback here

• 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.