• 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

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.

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)

Before going into the details of the release, let me thank you for the overwhelming feedback Those comments really shape Simfatic Forms.

I have to admit that only those suggestions that can be included in the scope of this intermediate version got into this release. But, rest assured, the remaining will be taken up in version 4.0.

Simfatic Forms 3.1 will be taken out of beta very soon so that the complete effort is concentrated on Version 4.0 of Simfatic Forms.

Here are the major changes in this new release:

1. adds comment header on the top of the generated PHP page
2. Proper label for group elements (radio/checkbox)
3. CAPTCHA case insensitive option
4. Fixed a problem with email encoding (observed on some servers)
5. Many other minor fixes and improvements

Here is the link to the download
Simfatic Forms 3.1 Beta

Keep posting your feedback!

2. Applied CodeSign Certificate

3. Fixed problem with date field validations
(Date validations were applied even if the field was empty)

4. Troubleshooting help link for ‘No email’ cases.
(A link is added to help troubleshoot ‘No email received’ cases)

Download Simfatic Forms Here

Beta Participants

The free licenses for all Beta participants were sent out. There were 140 active beta participants for Simfatic Forms 3.0. ( that is $13,860 worth of licenses! )

If you participated in the beta program and didn’t get my email for some reason, please contact me for your free license.

Existing Customers

I sent out an email announcement to all existing Simfatic Forms customers as well. The email contains information on how to upgrade to Simfatic Forms 3.0

Web site updates

Simfatic.com website went through a major revamp as part of releasing Simfatic Forms 3.0

There are still some more fine tuning in progress.

If you spot a JavaScript error or a typo, let me know.

I would also appreciate your feedback on the updated web site.

Feedback form