USING FORMS TO GO - Aug 4th, 2012


FormsToGo ( http://bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/overview ) at $30 turns out to be an extremely flexible program for
generating (form mail) scripts from your forms with a long list of available features. It supports multiple recipients,
popup error messaging to handle form errors and lots more. I also found their tech support extremely responsive.

Here are a few things that I've learned that can make using FormsToGo a bit easier.

NOTE: All changes are in the generated php file and will have to be re-done each time you re-generate the file.

1) Their built in Captcha implementation is case sensitive. To make it case insensitive they suggested searching the
following:

NOTE: $FTGcaptcha will change depending on what you've called your captcha field. Mine was called 'verify' so I searched
for $FTGverify.



$FTGcaptcha = DoStripSlashes( $_POST['captcha'] );


and add the strtoupper function to force the entry to upper case :



$FTGcaptcha = strtoupper( DoStripSlashes( $_POST['captcha'] ) );


2) I wanted to implement HTML Error checking on my form (any errors pop up on attempted submission and the for data does
not get cleared) but but couldn't get it to work without the following:

Search for:



$codeHtmlForm = ProcessPHPFile($fileHtmlForm);


and change it to:



$codeHtmlForm = file_get_contents('http://www.your_domain.com/your_form.php');




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