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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 23, 2007 - 12:41 AM

  Hi,
  I use several formexpress/feproc (both 0.3.5) forms on my 0.764 site at the moment. I've done some work on Formexpress to make it ready for 0.8. Install works now, but there is off course a lot more to be done.
  So I'm wondering, is it worth the effort or are there better alternatives available or in the making? Formexpress and feproc are both modules that are not updated recently and contain old code. pnForm offers easier form handling, but not wysiwyg form creation (AFAIK).
  
  I use formexpress to make a form and feproc to handle the content (take the fields and email the fields in several formats to different email adresses).
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 04, 2008 - 02:55 AM

  Nobody has an idea about Formexpress/feproc?
  
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• ccandreva
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 04:45 AM

  I don't think there is anything better at this point. pnForm is great for developers, but not for an end user wanting to make a form.
  
  Going forward, some sort of integration of feproc with pnForm might be usefull. You would make a pnForm template instead of building your form with FormExpress.
  
  I just found this thread as I'm trying to do the same thing. So far FormExpress works, but feproc gave me an error:
  
  

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  http://www.westnet.com/~chris/Zikula/photoshare-zikula-0.0.zip

  
  

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 05:32 AM

  I think am going over to SendForm, yet I have to try it still. I have tried to convert formexpress and feproc to 0.8 RC at that time, but did not succeed int that either.
  Sendform will do it for me as far as i can see.
  
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• uheweb
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 08:33 AM

  Try Formicula...its all HTML template based.
  
  I just migrated several legacy forms from feproc / FormExpress.
  
  Just read the docs, and understand the custom#data custom#name stuff and you can create some great forms - and send them via email (HTML or plain) with a copy to the user if desired.
  
  

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 04:42 PM

  Ah right, that one is also there and in active development. Almost forget about that.
  
  Good to know that people already converted some feproc/formexpress stuff to formulica.
  
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• ccandreva
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 11:24 PM

  I don't see Formicula as a replacement for feproc, as it doesn't have the multi-state pipeline.
  
  I am working right now on project where a form is savfed in Pagesetter. Payment is required or not based on the member's group membership.
  
  Feproc seems perfect for this, and I don't see Formicula being able to do this -- correct me if I'm wrong.
  
  
  
  
  edited by: ccandreva, Jun 27, 2008 - 06:56 AM

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 11:44 PM

  I think you are right in that. I merely use feproc for sending E-mail when people register for an contest or event, so I probably will come by with Formulica or Sendform.
  I think none of the Form modules (surveymanager, formulica, sendform) has multi stage form handling (at this moment).
  
  
  
  edited by: espaan, Jun 27, 2008 - 12:51 PM
  
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• uheweb
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 09:22 AM

  With Formicula, the process is all external (HTML templates) - there are no "internal" processing.
  
  You create HTML templates for:
  
  User form - for filling out
  User HTML - for sending HTML email to user
  User text - for text email if desired
  Admin HTML - if admin HTML email desired
  Admin text - if admin text desired
  User failure - if form fails
  User success - if form succeeds.
  
  You can code whatever you want into these templates, including a SUBMIT FINAL button which posts to whatever postnuke API you'd like. If an email template isn't there, it doesn't send an email...if it is, it does.
  
  It does have some built in stuff to pass variables to other modules...
  
  but, I use it just to email notices to admins or other contacts which it works great for. It also passes info to other modules URL-encoded - such as an apartment application which the USER SUCCESS form has a link URL-encoded with an app ID# and app fee amount which feeds into a secure payment pre-process module.
  
  
  
  edited by: uheweb, Jun 27, 2008 - 02:23 PM

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