The form should only popup on the page the script is on.

Add a page in your shop itself if it doesn't already have a Contact page or Order Here page or something. Add the form to that page same as you would a contact form. This way they can open that page in a new window if they like and browse the shop/catalog and add things as they browse or they can write it down or whatever and then add it to the form etc. I would name the page something like Order Here and put a nice explanation at the top so they know it's an order page that you will be billing them for etc. Should be pretty easy to do, and shouldn't need any type of iframe system if you create the page in the shop system itself.

If you have used up all the extra pages (I didn't look so...) that you can create in the shop software, then create an external HTML Page and just put the form on that page. Put links within your product descriptions for Order Here, and if you have an external site that you are using with your shop too then add the Order Here button/link to the menu there also. Would be nice if we could add links to the menu in the shop too, might have to go suggest that hehe.

Hope that helps

Thanks Eric and Jo Ann.


Eric, Indeed the form does only pop-up on the desired page. Thanks for that!

Jo Ann, I tried what you mentioned, but making another page in the Shopping Cart creates a .php file, but no .html file, so I once again do not know where to put the code for the form. I tried adding the code to the newly created page, but that didn't work. Also, the new page does not show in the menu list across the top - maybe because it is a catalogue and not a shopping cart?

The pop-up Eric suggested is almost what I need, but as Jo Ann mentioned, I'd like to leave the form open so the client can refer back to it to add as needed. Is there a way to make it pop-up as a separate window so it can remain open?

Use this example.
http://progrower.coffeecup.com/popup.html

Thanks, Eric. Nearly there now.

I've had to take everything out of the folder that Form Builder created and put it on the "Order" subdirectory in order for the form to appear correctly. However when the form is filled out and Submit, it seems to look for the EmgeeOrderForm.php file back to the Root Directory and doesn't work. I've moved the requested .php file to the Root Directory but without result.

What am I missing?

The directory structure that the form builder makes has to stay intact.
Here's one option.
Manually export your form.
Next delete the _exported off the name of the directory and up load it. So you'll have myforname instead of myformname_exported.
Now change the script that the form builder generates by adding myformname/ to the front of the src and href references. There's four spots to change.
or you could upload the form folder and change the script src and href references to absolute.

Hiya again Linda,

If you're still wanting to add the code to a page in the cart software rather than externally, you do that using the HTML tool in the area where you add content to a page. So you'd create a new page, name it whatever it is you want such as Order Here or whatever, then go to that page to edit it as you would any other page you create in the program. When you are adding text to the page etc. you'll see an HTML tool button that allows you to insert code into your pages. Use that and do what Eric also says for uploading the form so that you just change the front path part of the script to point to a different location by adding the form name to the front of the path followed by a forward slash as Eric has shown.

This should work exactly as you need it to. The only thing it won't do is open it in a new page, but people can do that themselves if they have any browser smarts by right clicking the menu button and choosing open in new window or tab, you could put that text at the top of the page to help them know what to do even. If you have it do a popup form this will not work at all though. Just depends on your preferences for it.

Hi again,

I was getting so frustrated on this, but I finally got it to work.

Jo Ann, the pop-up window is added as an extra page in the cart as you suggested and the info is in an HTML box. I had to move the files in the "EmgeeOrderForm" folder individually into the /order so it would appear correctly in the pop-up window. I also had to put the EmgeeOrderForm.php file in the root directory as I was getting an error so it almost worked as I indicated below. The code on the SCCPro page is based on Eric's example and looks like this:

[[[<a href="EmgeeOrderForm.html" target="name"
onclick="window.open('EmgeeOrderForm.html','name','height=850, width=800,toolbar=no,directories=no,status=no, menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;"
>Please Click Here to place an order</a> ]]]

Eric gave me an idea of what was going wrong so I moved the exported WFB folder and .php file to /order, and added the folder name in front of the file name so the code is now:

[[[<a href="EmgeeOrderForm/EmgeeOrderForm.html" target="name"
onclick="window.open('EmgeeOrderForm/EmgeeOrderForm.html','name','height=850, width=800,toolbar=no,directories=no,status=no, menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;"
>Please Click Here to place an order</a> ]]]

Now it works!

Eric, I couldn't figure out where to change the script created by WFB since I don't have an .html page for the catalogue as I want it to remain hidden. That was my issue originally. But I'm happy with the work around I found.

Thanks for all the help Eric and Jo Ann!

Great! Good luck with the rest of your shop.

Glad you got it working Linda, good luck and hope your catalog works well for you