Interface elements that allow a user to input data.
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10answers
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Why do websites have a contact form? isn't an email address enough?
What's reason behind having a contact form on a website, when a simple e-mail link is enough? Why do so many web sites have contact forms? Is it just a habit?
0
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0answers
10 views
Looking for a gallery script with multi-file upload [closed]
I'm looking for a very particular script. Not just any gallery script. What I'm hoping for is the following:
Upload images without using the POST method or can POST within an iframe but cannot ...
2
votes
1answer
46 views
Do Search Engine Spider's submit POST forms?
If I have content behind a POST form (a select box, in my case) will Googlebot, or other Search Engine Spiders be able to crawl the content behind that form?
For example, if I were to have 4 ...
2
votes
2answers
70 views
What is a generalized form creator that runs on .NET / Windows?
At the institution that I'm at, we've been looking for web applications that enable users to create and deploy their own forms. Similar applications are Wufoo, and google forms. Unfortunately, those ...
1
vote
1answer
71 views
Php form to email software?
I have used PHP Form Wizard software, its really very good but I don't know why it starts throwing run-time error 91 and not working on my system any more.
I am looking for its alternative:
...
1
vote
1answer
655 views
Joomla 2.5 — Adding a custom field to menu-item-edit-form
I would like to add a new Field (Select list of all menu-items) to the menu item-edit form. To do so I was setting up an system plugin with the following directory structure:
...
1
vote
2answers
141 views
How to setup SSL to protect secure information
At the moment I have a website running in quite an insecure way, I'll refer to it as example.com.
To add better security we're starting to store passwords using bcrypt but we are currently not using ...
0
votes
0answers
41 views
Web form organization for pricelist import
I am developing small CMS for eCommerce. Fo this I want to create script for pricelist import.
I store all data in database so that one goody is a group of records in several database tables joined by ...
3
votes
1answer
95 views
we choose to use tables to layout web forms: (how) can we make them valid/accessible?
we are building a site with dozens of very complex forms and we decided that the best solution for us is to make them using <table>
but we are worried about accessibility and standards.
what i ...
0
votes
2answers
116 views
POST data to another form with php
I want to create a form on my page to get information this is easily done and the problem.
I want to 'POST' information to my own php-page, creating a new id and saving the information to my ...
2
votes
1answer
67 views
New to website form validation
I'm new to form validation and I have been lucky over the years. I would like to update my method of form creation in my sites. I was curious to know what is standard and if there is a pre-existing ...
4
votes
2answers
2k views
Form autocompletion not working
I created a HTML form with several input fields, nothing special. Using the most recent version of Google Chrome and Firefox autocompletion works for all form fields which means that whenever I want ...
6
votes
4answers
247 views
How should I deal with a 'Contact Us' Form?
Often you'll see websites with a "For any questions, please contact us..." followed by a box for your name, email, subject, maybe some invoice data...
When should these be implemented on a website? ...
0
votes
2answers
367 views
Creating a site with similar functionality to RateMyProfessors
I'm trying to create a website that accepts submissions into a form, and then later on I can display it in tables organized by categories, similar to how RateMyProfessors does it:
...
1
vote
2answers
516 views
SEO: disallowing Google from indexing forms?
From a SEO point of view, would you exclude forms from being indexed/crawled by Google or not?
I mean my forms hardly ever contains keyword/keyphrases.
So I'm wondering what's the point of letting ...
3
votes
2answers
163 views
Implementing inline editing for a web order form without using Javascript
As the title states, I'm trying to find a good solution to implement inline editing for a web order form with just HTML/CSS.
The only mediocre solution I have right now is this -> ...
3
votes
4answers
1k views
Is it correct to just keep gender as male/female?
When designing a form that asks for a person's gender, should I take any special consideration for hermaphrodites or trans-gendered persons, or is M/F good enough?
Is defaulting the gender offensive ...
3
votes
2answers
5k views
Alternative to Google Forms?
I'm looking for a web app I can install to allow users to create simple forms, collect responses, and extract the data (e.g. as a CSV spreadsheet) in order to track travel, expenses, etc. Any ...
3
votes
3answers
154 views
Why do websites require retyping the password upon user error in a registration form?
Many times, when you fill out a registration form and miss a required field, the form reloads with all the fields filled out except for the password which you have to retype.
I'm wondering if I ...
0
votes
0answers
27 views
registration form with payment system ( paypal ) [closed]
I'm using an ajax registration form plugin for my website and I'm thinking to implement also Paypal.
Here is how I want to implement it :
I have 3 labels ( Name, Phone, Email, ) and a " Buy " ...
1
vote
1answer
37 views
Where are the messages?
Where can we find the messages sent by the users using contact form in Joomla 2.5?
I just activated the contact us page in the menu. While testing it, after filling all the fields and submitting the ...
3
votes
2answers
108 views
Is content in option tags indexed?
Is data inside an <option> tag indexed?
For example, would the following option tag allow "Volvo", "Saab", "Opel" and "Audi" to be indexed by a crawler?
<select>
<option ...
0
votes
2answers
1k views
Where can I find a contact form for Twitter Bootstrap?
Where can I find a working contact form for Twitter Bootstrap? I'm using simple template with build in fields for Name, Email and Message. (I don't have any knowledge of PHP)
Thank you.
Nina
0
votes
1answer
253 views
Templates for forms, tabs etc? - Patterntap alternatives
I used to find http://www.patterntap.com quite useful to get inspiration to design forms, tabs, and other web elements etc.
Unfortunately after the ZURB acquisition of Patterntap now they enforce you ...
0
votes
1answer
72 views
How to integrate formstack, wordpress and authorize.net? [closed]
What are all the steps that involve in integrating formstack with Wordpress CMS?
What are all the steps involved in integrating formstack with authorize.net?
1
vote
0answers
46 views
MediaWiki plugin for dynamic content via forms
Are there any plugins for MediaWiki that would allow me to create a page that has a form at the top that when filled in populates tags further down in the document? Say someone would put a form with ...
1
vote
2answers
65 views
Single Full Name field in registration form user submits only first what to enter in my backend as last?
On a registration form I have a single input called Full Name. The strings are parsed with http://code.google.com/p/php-name-parser/ so if a person enters their full name middle or any quantity of ...
1
vote
1answer
60 views
How to handle gender and sexual orientation on a form with select boxes more inclusively?
The existing question and the answers for it are not satisfying when one wants to be more inclusive.
Gender as Male, Female or No Answer works for some sites, but not others.
Taking the view that ...
6
votes
2answers
1k views
What countries require a state/province in the mailing address?
I'm creating a form and want to require / hide the state/province field based on the selected country. What countries require a state in the mailing address? For example, the United States does.
3
votes
2answers
169 views
HTML5 <form> autocomplete Attribute
What is the point of the autocomplete attribute? Isn't it bad practice to tell your users how their browser should work to fill a form?
5
votes
5answers
334 views
Why don't websites have contact emails? [duplicate]
I find websites having a contact form which you must put in your own email address. It is frustrating because I would rather send an email my self.
What is the rationale for doing this and not ...
1
vote
0answers
28 views
Sending form input to a public database? [closed]
I am looking for a code that will send input from a form to a database or table. For example, there would be a form:
<input type='text' name='name'>
And then a table:
<td>(what they ...
2
votes
2answers
183 views
Is there anyway i can create an intranet request form and have it be stored in a database?
I am trying to create a form for my companies intraNet site. The idea is as follows:
An employee wants to make a purchase, so they will go to the appropriate page in the intraNet
They will fill out ...
1
vote
2answers
2k views
Show submitted form input without server-side scripts
Is there a way to accept form input and have the output dumped/printed back to the web page with HTML or JavaScript/AJAX and without PHP/Perl/server-side scripts?
3
votes
2answers
2k views
Why doesn't autofocus=“autofocus” work in Mozilla Firefox?
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Gw" MAXLENGTH="225" size="42" autofocus="autofocus">
If I try this with Google Chrome it works. I just want to highlight a form without <script>.
Why doesn't it ...
0
votes
1answer
246 views
How to create email request forms and auto-responder?
I'm building a site in css and I'm pretty new to any code or script other than html and css.
I'm trying to create a landing page that requires an email from visitors and set up an auto responder to ...
2
votes
3answers
78 views
How to safely collect bank account from website?
I want to collect bank account information from my customers on my website.
I'd like to do that trough a form, then I will download it to a PC, print it, and then delete it from the website. Or ...
0
votes
1answer
127 views
When does FireFox ask for confirmation on page redirect?
Every once in a while I click a link and see the following (I'm using FF 11.0):
I was wondering why FF does this on some redirects/links and not on others. I was thinking maybe it does that when ...
2
votes
2answers
79 views
A particular IP address hits our form and submits an empty page every few days. Possible reasons?
We look after a low volume website which has a contact us form which looks like this:
<form method="post" action="http://www.*****.com/cgi-bin/contact.cgi">
Starting a few weeks ago, every ...
2
votes
2answers
381 views
A simple and free guestbook script?
Looking for a free, simple PHP guestbook script - couldn't talk the client out of the idea - and I remember using something fairly easy to set up a few years ago that used a simple txt file to store ...
1
vote
1answer
44 views
Automatically appearing contact form like Kiss Insight?
I have been using Kiss Insight which is great to collect customers' feedbacks. However, this is only an one-way communication because we can't answer some of customers concerns.
Is there any hosted ...
3
votes
2answers
110 views
Looking for a good script to handle fill-in forms on a non-CMS website
We have a website which is mostly HTML pages, in other words, not CMS based. The way we handle fill-in forms is through an ancient script that comes with the web hosting. It requires a separate text ...
0
votes
1answer
99 views
Ways to set up a simple inventory form quickly
I needed a simple inventory form of sort on my website where visitors could enter their information, pick the item they wanted and then submit the form and dispatch an email. The information will be ...
3
votes
3answers
249 views
Where do you get data to populate a suggest-box with Country, State, City and Zip Information?
I'm trying to create some dialogs in my web-app that can auto-suggest possible Countries, States, Cities and Zips in a form.
I was planning on storing this information in a database, and making calls ...
3
votes
2answers
100 views
Form development optimization
Like many web developers I do forms all the time. I found myself doing the same all the time: placing input fields, assigning a name to each, ajax the form, then create the PHP which involves to ...
3
votes
1answer
2k views
Which online form builders offer conditional logic/branching?
I have a survey with the following form fields:
Country
Age
Male/Female
Undergraduate/Graduate
Question?
Yes
No
If No, what about this and that?
Yes
No
Google Forms and SurveyMonkey don't ...
6
votes
2answers
820 views
Alternative to Instant Form Pro
I was looking for a PHP form generator this morning and ran across "Instant Form Pro" by Joel Comm (http://www.instantformpro.com). It looks like it offers what I'm looking for (easy to use quick form ...
6
votes
1answer
199 views
Best way to let users enter 'infinity' in a html form
I have a form with a field "quantity" which can have the value "unlimited / infinity":
Quantity: [ ]
What would be a good way to let users enter "infinity"?
Some ideas:
1) Tell the user that -1 ...
3
votes
4answers
209 views
Removing CAPTCHA is harmful for my forms?
I have some services on my site that developed by PHP , it seems having CAPTCHA in my registration form is decreasing registering users , I tend to remove CAPTCHA at least on my registering form , is ...
3
votes
1answer
90 views
What kind of spam is this on our form?
We're receiving a lot of spam that looks like this:
Form field 1 (textfields):
duYYAJPNaMVsC
Form field 2: icDiQOVRy
Form field 3: uSDzPEObWIrTsCidma
Form field 4: ODscxPiiqj
...
