FormBuilder 2 is a Craft CMS plugin that lets you create & manage forms for your front-end. Entries get stored to database so you can easily view your submission or export them.
Take a look at sampleForm.twig
for required code. You will need to copy everything in that file and paste it to where you want to display your form.
There are 2 options for spam protection, Time Submissions and Honeypot method.
Time submission will prevent spam bots for submitting the form too quickly. You need to enter a time (seconds) it should take a real person to submit a form. Typically 3 seconds is good enough.
With honeypot there is a hidden field that should be left blank. When spam bots run through the form they tend to fill out all the fields. If the honeypot field will get field the submission will fail. Real people will not be able to fill out this field so the form will submit successfully.
Create an Asset field and add it to your form. You need to select Has File Uploads box when creating your form to make sure files get submitted. If you have Email Notifications turned on, file uploads will be attached to the email.
Templates have been added. Now you can visually set up email notification templates for admins or submitter. Currently with limited customization options but with feedback I'm sure we will add more. Check out this video for quick overlook.
Hit Create New Form
to create a new form.
- Form Settings
Form Name
- Give your form a nameHandle
- Will be autogenerated, you can change to a custom oneUse Custom Redirect
- Select this option if you want a custom redirect page (thank-you page). Redirect URL is required and is relevant to your domain.Has File Uploads
- Select this if your form has file uploadsUse AJAX
- Select this if you want your form to submit using javascript without page refresh.Note:
You can't use Has Form Uploads and Ajax together yet (working on it).
- Spam Protection
Timed Submissions
- Select this and set time in seconds. Timed submissions will prevent quick spam robots from submitting too quickly.Honeypot
- Select this option to try and catch spam robots using a honeypot method. Hidden field in the form needs to be left empty, if filled the form will fail (most robots will fill this field).
- Messages
Success Message
- Enter form success message. If you form has custom redirect this is useless.Error Message
- Enter generic error message if submission has errors this will be displayed along with the field specific error message (Ex: Your Name cannot be empty
).
- Email Notifications
Notify Admin of Submission
- Select this if you want to send email notification of submission.Notification Email
- Enter email where the notification should be sent to. you can enter multiple emails separated by a comma,
Email Subject
- Enter subject line for email notificationInclude Submission Data
- You can tick this option if you like the email to contain the submission content.Email Template
- You can pick if you want email to be Text Only or HTML Template.Text Only
- With this option you can enter optionalBody Copy
andFooter Copy
.HTML Template
- With this option you can upload acustom logo
, give email template acustom background color
, give acontainer width
as well as optionalBody Copy
andFooter Copy
.
- Fields
Add Fieldset Tab
- Click this to add a fieldset. Then drag and drop fields into those fieldsets. You can also drag predefined fieldsets with fields form theUnused Fields
section. If you don't see any fields you will need to head over toadmin/settings/fields
to create some fields.
Here's a list of currently supported fields. Unlike FormBuilder there are no more custom fieldtypes, you only need to use Craft's predefined fields.
- Plain Text
- Checkboxes
- Radio Buttons
- Dropdowns (Select Options)
- Multi Select
- RichText (WYSIWYG)
- Light Switch (Toggle)
- Color (Color Picker)
- Date
- Number
- Assets (Only local file uploads supported for now, no s3, no rackspace)
If you want to have custom markup for your rendered fields follow these steps to achieve it.
- While editing your form go to the
Fields
tab. - Click the settings icon next your field and hit
Custom Template
option. - Enter your template path located in
craft/templates
. - Example: enter
forms/text
, placetext.html
ortext.twig
intocraft/templates/forms/
You can pass submission data to a custom redirect page, here is a snipped code for getting started.
{% set submissionId = craft.request.getCookie('formBuilder2SubmissionId') %}
{% set submission = null %}
{% if submissionId %}
{% set submission = craft.formBuilder2.getFormEntryById(submissionId.value) %}
{% endif %}
{% if submission %}
{{ submission.form |inspect }}
{{ submission.data |inspect }}
{% endif %}
- First we are getting a submission ID by checking cookies for it.
- If we get an ID we call a function to get the submission
- When and if you get a submission back you can use
submission.form
to get form information andsubmission.data
to get submission informationsubmission.form.id
- Form IDsubmission.form.title
- Form Namesubmission.data
- Holds submission data...so if your form had a field with handle nameyourEmail
you can callsubmission.data.yourEmail
to get your string.
- Exporting entries
- Update documentations
- Visual data reporting
Refer to releases.json for updates.
If you have found a bug or would like to request a feature please use Github's Issues to report and track issues.
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