Information form.

[bpukas21]

Does anyone know how to create a form like this:

http://gotprint.net/g/designBusinessCard.do?bg=12495&rn=1226969728002

or perhaps what program to use to create this. Thanks for any help and suggestions anyone can give.

Barry

[navaldesign]

Re: Information form.

Your problem is NOT the form. Your problem is the rest, i mean how to proccess the form to display the form input on the background image used for the customer to see what he is doing.

[bpukas21]

Re: Information form.

Thanks, I know what you mean. I now do not need them to see how it will look. I have changed my thought process and hopefully my new idea is easier and workable. I would like to make multiple page forms with each form having choices to choose from, (ex. a list of different font styles, colors to choose from, etc.) once a choice has been made on page 1 the user is automatically directed to page 2 where more choices are required. Again once the choice is made on page 2 they are automatically directed to page 3, etc. Once all is completed they submit and all information is compiled and sent to my email. I hope my rough idea is clear. Is anything like this possible to? How best to start?

Thanks,
Barry

[navaldesign]

Re: Information form.

start here: Multipage Form Tutorial
Of course you also need to watch the form tutorials

[bpukas21]

Re: Information form.

Thanks for the quick response. I'll give a look. Afterward probably more questions.

Barry

[bpukas21]

Re: Information form.

Hi,
I just got through making a form using your multipage form tutorial. I made the form using BV wizard and when I double-clicked on the form a Form properties box opened, however it was not like the one in your tutorial. Mine was a larger, two part type form that said...

Top part says:

General

Form name:
Action: (which is not highlighted so I can not change to formpage2.php
Method: (which is a drop down menu type, also not highlighted, so no
changes can be made.)
Encoding type: (which is highlighted and works just fine.)


Bottom part says:

Form processing

Use built in phpform processor to send data to an email address
Email address:
Subject:
and so forth.


So how do I get to the Form properties box like in your tutorial so that I can change Action and Method?

Thanks in advance,
Barry

[navaldesign]

Re: Information form.

The tutorial was made two years ago, when BV was different from what it is now. However, the changes are not such as to make the tutorial hard to understand. Let's take your points in order: :
ACTION: just type the action as per tutorial

METHOD: select from the drop down "POST"

Although the layout is different the fields have the same names.

Ignore the rest and do NOT check the "Use built in form processor" until your last page/form

[bpukas21]

Re: Information form.

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try. You are such a great help.

Barry

[bpukas21]

Re: Information form.

Hi,
I followed the instructions and I got everything to work once. When I checked my email all the information from my multi-form pages showed up in the email, but only once. Now I keep testing and only the information from my last page shows up in the email. Is there something that isn't right and not passing the information from my first 3 pages to my last page? Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Barry

[navaldesign]

Re: Information form.

Impossible to help you without a link to your form(s)

[bpukas21]

Re: Information form.

Sorry I've typed so much I thought it was somewhere. www.pocketbillboardsite.com. There are 4 form pages formpage1.php-formpage4.php.

[bpukas21]

Re: Information form.

I found my mistake. All is working well. Putting in that HTML code really does wonders. Too much turkey I guess. Thanks for looking.