Adding forms to my site?

[VisHorizons]

I don't know anything about PHP or server side stuff, so I've always been afraid of making forms. I found emedia sales' form module two years ago, and it worked great, until it stopped working.

In System Extension Settings, I was updating Minimum Maximum Quantity (an excellent module from William Weiland), and when I clicked "Update", the screen switched to "eMediaSales Form Mailer" with an error message stating the licence was not valid. Then I noticed that none of my forms are working. I contacted emedia, and they said all their modules have gone to monthly subscriptions three years ago (which is weird because I bought the module two years ago at a flat fee.)

I'm faced with paying a monthly fee to get support (and then I need to keep paying it if I want the module to keep working). So my question is, are there any other modules or any other easy way of making forms for my website?

Thanks for any help.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

The EmporiumPlus Toolkit module will let you build an unlimited number of forms along with doing a lot of other cool stuff.

Leslie

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

Is you are just using it for Contact type information, you may want to look at our Easy Contact module, which is a different breed of contact form. But I don't know of anything specifically for Miva Merchant that is a general Form processor type of module. Some folks are able to do this with Tool kit, but obviously, I don't know how to do that<g>.

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[VisHorizons]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

The EmporiumPlus Toolkit module will let you build an unlimited number of forms along with doing a lot of other cool stuff.

Well, that's cool, because I already have toolkit! (I needed it for some weird feature of some other module I don't remember anymore.) I am so bad with this kind of stuff, but it bears some attention.

Is you are just using it for Contact type information, you may want to look at our Easy Contact module, which is a different breed of contact form. But I don't know of anything specifically for Miva Merchant that is a general Form processor type of module. Some folks are able to do this with Tool kit, but obviously, I don't know how to do that<g>.

Thanks, I'll look into Easy Contact (but at a glance, is looks like a subscription too.) I don't know how to do anything with toolkit, so you're ahead of me :P

[wcw]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

Go to http://www.emporiumplus.com/1AA00223.html Look at #74 sendpage. There is a link to example page in that function description. Take a look at the example FORM2 and RCPT2. You can create unlimited forms using the sending and receiving pages routine. Course you name each contact form with different page names from the example. You can even incorporate a math challenge to cut down on spam. If you already have the module, the feature is basically free. You need not waste money on subscription fees or new module costs.

[VisHorizons]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

Thanks, Bill! I'll give that a look.

[VisHorizons]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

Great, I think I got toolkit working for me!

One little question: Even with the older module, I never did figure out how to use store morph technology with radio buttons. With a text field it's easy.

<input type="text" size="30" name="first_name" value="&mvte:global:first_name;" />

But I don't know where to put the mvte in a radio input

<input type=radio name="SendSample" value="red" /> Red<br />
<input type=radio name="SendSample" value="black" /> Black

[wcw]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

<mvt:if expr="g.sendsample EQ 'red'">
<input type=radio name="SendSample" value="red" checked /> Red<br />
<mvt:else>
<input type=radio name="SendSample" value="red" /> Red<br />
</mvt:if>

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

Doug,

We do not have a 'subscription' fee. It's a yearly renewal fee (and a modest one) that ensures your investment will not only continue to be supported but also increase in usefulness and functionality.

That being said, I offered this option not to replace a "contact us" form, which you can do with Toolkit, but to offer a better way to communicate with your customers. We actually suggest to Easy Contact users that they request a refund if it doesn't pay for itself in 30 days. Once Easy Contact user says it paid for itself within 5 minutes of using it.

We do admit that we serve a different market than the "why waste money on "fees" when you can just waste time".

[nottheusual1]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

If you need to do forms outside the MIVA environment (I'm a major fan of Bill's solutions in the store), Zebra Forms is tough to beat:

http://stefangabos.ro/php-libraries/zebra-form/

[jankal7003]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

Can the radio button code above be modified for checkboxes?

[hmendenhall]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

Here is some sample code....

<mvt:if expr="g.sendsample EQ 'red'">
<input type=checkbox name="SendSample" value="red" checked /> Red<br />
<mvt:else>
<input type=checkbox name="SendSample" value="red" /> Red<br />
</mvt:if>

[jankal7003]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

Here is some sample code....

<mvt:if expr="g.sendsample EQ 'red'">
<input type=checkbox name="SendSample" value="red" checked /> Red<br />
<mvt:else>
<input type=checkbox name="SendSample" value="red" /> Red<br />
</mvt:if>

Thank you hmendenhall. I've made those kind of changes in my form, but they aren't coming through in the email. What changes does the RCPT page need?

[willough]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

The original question was about adding a PHP form to a Miva site. Is that possible? If so, how?

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Adding forms to my site?

Depends on what the PHP script does. Simple form processing is down by using a form post in your Merchant template, like:

<form method="post" action="path/to/your/php-script.php">
Your input forms here
</form>

However, without complicated scripting, getting responses BACK from the PHP script can be hard. (Might be better to use an SMT MvCALL function to connect to the script, but that's not real simple either.)