Site Designer V5 and forms

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I'm creating a couple of forms to use with my web site. I'm using the Form Builder for the backend scripts but the form Elements directly from Site Designer for the look and feel. The forms look great and seem to work pretty well with one exception.

When I need a series of checkboxes where users can check more than one, it doesn't come through in the response. I only get one of the check boxes listed, even if I pick 5.

I know how to manipulate the radio buttons so it only allows you to pick one of the choices, but with the check boxes where I want to allow users to pick multiples, there's a piece missing I haven't figured out yet.

I have tried a list box too, but although I can select more than one using ctrl, it only reports one of the selections.

Any thoughts? Thanks for your help!

Here's the test page:
https://www.onguarddefense.com/newsite/contact-us.html
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Hi Judi,
You need to set your checkbox names as array elements
Interests[]
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Eric - thanks - that worked perfectly! Just a little syntax. I didn't see that documented anywhere, but now, looking at the code for the Web Form Builder page, I see exactly where it says name=element[]

I would love to just "write my own code" for the backend instead of using the Web Form Builder, but I'm not really sure what exactly that means. It appears that this is using sendmail from my web server (hosted at a facility I use as a service) so I'm wondering how difficult it would be to write the code and eliminate the duplicate forms.

Got any cool samples on how that works?

Thanks for your help. this is going to work out great I think as is, but I'm always trying to tweak to make more efficient.
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The Contact Form items at Inger's https://mock-up.coffeecup.com/ may be of interest.

Frank
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Coding the back end scripts to process your data is fairly easy for a simple contact form.
You can google it and see what you can find. There's several ways of providing feed back for non valid data depending on the look and feel you want. Post back if you need help.
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http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
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This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
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Thanks Eric.
I found this site https://www.freecontactform.com/form-gu … email-form

But it really looks like I could get a sample from the PHP generated by the Web Form Builder software and then just change the fields to match the current form?

Does the Site Designer form need all the other "stuff" from the coffee cup Web Form Builder Exported folder, or is it ONLY looking at that PHP file? If that's the case, I see how it's working and that makes things a lot simpler. The PHP doesn't seem to be rocket science, but lots of syntax that could go wrong.
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If your fine with the form builder doing the heavy lifting I would use it since you already have it. Upload all the files except the myform-name.html. This way you know you have everything you need. I think some users worry to much about unnecessary files. If the form builder doesn't need them it won't use them so there's no gain in performance. If you have a host that limits the your root directory size it may be necessary to delete unused files.
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It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.

This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
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Got it - thanks. The more I dig into the Coffee Cup Site Designer, the simpler it seems. All of the knobs and buttons are confusing at first, but once you realize exactly what they do, and which ones to tweak, it makes a lot of sense logically.

I really appreciate your help!

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Hello,

I am creating a website using responsive site designer v5. But unfortunately, I am unable to find prebuilt elements Or selection of pages or components. I am creating a website https://www.serviceatclick.com
This website is based on materialize framework. And my confusion is: if I want to add another template using different framework likewise https://themes.coffeecup.com/commons.html

Than how do I do it? Will it work for me. If I create a directory inaide the root like /web-development and exporing the site in that specific directory. Than will it work?

Looking for the solution positively!

Thanks
Amit Gaur
Amit Kumar
serviceatclick@gmail.com
http://www.serviceatclick.com
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Hi Amit,

You cannot switch themes between the different frameworks. If you loaded up the Materialize Theme then you can only add components from that framework. Also keep in mind that if you want to switch themes later you cannot apply that new theme to your current project. You would have to start a new project and open the new theme.
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