CC Web Form Builder and FormTools -...

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I have been using a program called FormTools (http://www.formtools.org/) with the forms I used before I started using CC Web Form Builder (CCWFB). I really like the way FormTools puts the data into its database, far better than the MySQL with CCWFB. FormTools requires coding similar to the following:

<form action="http://www.Your_Website.org/formtools/process.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="form_tools_initialize_form" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="form_tools_form_id" value="15" />


The second line gets deleted after the connection between the website form and the FormTools link is established. However, I cannot for the life of me get it to work with CCWFB. The FormTools tech support says the following:

I'm afraid I don't know that script. But as long as it generates a form that can POST its data somewhere, it'll be compatible.

AND

You're implementing a POST form? That code provided by Form Tools needs to be added to your form: the actual HTML in the form markup itself. I'm not sure how CoffeeCup works, exactly, but you'll need to include those two hidden fields and point the form to the process.php by changing the "action" attribute.


Anyone have any ideas???
User 2202726 Photo


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Is anyone using Form Tools with CCWFB ? I see that no one had responded to Tom's post on this topic (post is from 2011). I am just beginning to work with Form Tools and want to edit the forms I designed in CCWFB to work along with it. Any tips or tricks to accomplish this would be appreciated.
User 2159832 Photo


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Just found this post and I also want to know if submitting a WFB form with the "Redirect to another URL" option actually uses HTTP POST?

Formtools seems to be a powerful open source way to handle forms no matter how the original form is created and would make a great companion to WFB.
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Actually even better. The variables are stored in a $_SESSION post so their available at any time.
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