The key features of Simfatic Forms

Using the flexible WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get) form editor you can design the form the way you want.

The wizard-like interface allows you to create the form in easy steps.

Quick Sets

These are pre-built input elements that you can add to your form just by selecting a menu item.(Name, email ,Address etc) You can add your own pre-built elements to the quick set.

You use the Captcha feature to protect the form from automated spam bots.

You can direct the form submissions to any number of email addresses.

Customize the email

You can create an email template for the form submission email. This lets you highlight the part of the form submission data or format the form submission data in any way you want.

You can have the form submissions saved to a database table. Simfatic forms will automatically create and update the table as required.
The current version supports MySQL database.

In addition to receiving the form submissions by email, you can have the form submission data saved to a csv (comma separated values) file on the server side. You can later download this submission data file and open in spreadsheet programs or import to a data base that support csv format.

You can configure an auto response email that is sent to the visitor who submitted the form.

Customize the email using email template

You can customize the auto response email to make it more personalized.

You can have formatted HTML emails. ( With formatted text, fonts etc )

You can let Simfatic Forms read a form from an existing web page and attach validations and the Simfatic Form processor to the form.

Thus you can quickly add form processing support to your existing forms.

Similarly, if you want to create a form in your favorite editor and attach form processing support to it, you can use this feature.

You can quickly create form using this feature. Select one template from commonly used templates and create a form using the template. This makes creating forms even quicker.

It is easy to customize the look and feel of the form by selecting the font, color and background color.

There are pre-built 'styles' that you can attach to the form that you are creating.

You don't have to worry uploading the individual script files to the proper location on your web server. Simfatic Forms can FTP the required files to the server.

Simfatic Forms support all types of input fields that you see on web forms.

• Text Field
• Multi-line text box
• Check box
• A group of check boxes
• Radio button
• List box
• File upload box
• Hidden field
• Submit, Reset buttons

In addition to the 'native' form controls, Simfatic Forms provides the following enhanced controls too.

• Decimal field:
  Allows only decimal numbers
• Date Picker:
  Allows your visitors to pick a date from a drop down calendar
• Captcha
• Calculation field:
  Calculate a value based on the form input

You can have any number of File Upload boxes in your form. This lets your visitors attach files along with their form submission. You will get the files as attachment along with the form submission email. Also, you can have the files saved on the server that you can download later.

Simfatic forms supports all commonly required validation types. You just have to select the types of validation required for each input field. The input data is validated both at the client side(Java Script) and on the server side.

Some of the validations:

• Text box:
• Mandatory field
• type: alphabetic, numeric, email
• Max. length
• Min. Length
• Greater than a number
• Less than a number
• Match against a pattern
• Compare to another field
• Check box group
• select minimum n number of check boxes
• select maximum n number of check boxes
• List box
Should select a item
• File upload box
• The file extension
• Size of the file(server side only)

Date picker
The date can be before/after
• a fixed date
• the form submission date
• another date field
• Decimal field and Calculation field
• Greater than a number
• Less than a number
• compare to another field

You can choose a validation to be done based on certain condition (like selecting a check box, having an input value greater than a number)

The validation errors could be displayed in a (1) floating error box (2) in a message box or (3) on top of the form.

floating validation error box

You can have a two-step form submission process. When your visitor submits a form, a confirmation page is displayed showing the data that the visitor had submitted. The visitor has to press confirm button to make the final submission.