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Q: I am in an urgent need to set up an email order form. I used the online form builder. That worked all the way thru using View Form and filling it in. But, when I clicked on submit, I was led to a page and told there was a problem. The last message said "The page cannot be displayed". Is the online version to just build but not work?

A: The online version will build the form and processing code but you need to save the Form Code as a file; ie copy, paste and save it as a file using a a text editor (like NotePad); and upload it to your server so the form can be used. View Form Layout only displays the form layout and does not include the processing code, it is simply so you can see what the form will look like. Please see the Form code Section of the Help file for details. Also for your form to not expire you will need to register Form1 Builder before you build the form. Forms built with unregistered software will stop working once the evaluation period expires.

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Q: Many thanks for your quick response, I've just tried it again and it appears to work fine. Shame I've just spent the last three hours rewriting my forms from yesterday to make sure they still work - dam servers!! I have a couple of other quick questions which relate to the use of the "return" code for radio and selection menus as seen on my report, I' tried to have a go yesterday but I've seem to have made a pigs ear of them. Any chance you could pass comment on the attached. I've just loaded the source viewer, thanks for another great tool and your speedy response.

A: Thanks for the feedback. Regarding your Radio Buttons they include a "CHECKED" variable ie you are forcing a specific selection. Therefore the users selection will be over written by the forced selection. Removed the "CHECKED" and they should work. The Select Option you did make a bit of a mess out of it, the format needs to be exactly as per the help file, a correct example from your form is <option <?php $name='Meeting';$value='Please Select Nene Valley Meeting';if( isset( $_SESSION['Form1'][$name])&& $_SESSION['Form1'][$name]== $value) {echo 'selected= "selected"';} ?> >Please Select Nene Valley Meeting </option>. The problem also appears to be related to an existing "selected" variable in your code and you have added this into the maintaining form content code. Also if you are going to maintain content a reset button losses its point as the form will attempt to maintain whatever input it has received and will not allow it to be reset.

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Q: Can I use your software to make a form that will accept credit cards?

A: You can build any sort of for you like and have it processed using the Form1 code. Keep in mind that if you are transmitting sensitive information ie credit card details you should have the data sent via a secure server this means that the url should be https (not just http). You will need to contact your server host to determine if they support this. Also the information should not be delivered by email (it is not secure) so you should have the data directly entered into a database such as MYSQL. Form1 builder MYSQL ( https://bizpep.com/form1/ ) will allow you to do this, but you will need your host to support and provide you with access to a MYSQL database.

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Q: My questions regards form builder. I'm looking to design an online membership application form as well as a survey template for my site. What I need is a membership form that will automatically input data like (especially e-mail addresses) into the website's mailing list. My current form accepts the data, transfers it to the sites mailbox...but I have to still manually input names, addresses numbers etc into the mailing list. Too tedious. I need a service that will do that for me. Does Form Builder fit the bill? I also need a survey form that will tabulate results. Is this asking too much? Do you know of any services/software that accomplishes these objectives.

A: Form1 builder will do this. Depending on what database you use to store the information you may use Form1 MYSQL or Form1 GoldMine. Both allow you to automatically import the form data into the specific database. To tabulate the survey results you will most likely need a specific script written and it will depend on what you want to display.

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Q: Thank you for Form1 Builder MYSQL - it has saved me so much time figuring MYSQL database writes from scratch. However I am having one problem that I cannot seem to crack. The Subject field that the email is delivered with is always "Form Submission". I have set the variable in the .php code to = "Default Subject"; and I have set the defsubject in the form itself with the following code: <input type="hidden" name="defsubject" value="Subject" /> But nothing seems to work. It is important that I can distinguish between different forms when they are emailed. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

A: Thanks for the feedback. Form Submission is the default subject value. To override this the name you have set as $defsubject must be the name of the field in the form ie set $defsubject = "Subject"; and then in the forms set a hidden field <input type="hidden" name="Subject" value="what ever you want the subject to be" /> and the value will appear as the form subject.

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