forms

We've just installed drupal on an IIS machine in our office. It has installed successfully, however we cannot create any content or save settings in the admin menu.

It seems that the "action" attribute in the HTML FORMs are being cleared. For example, when you create a page, the form on index.php?q=node/add/page should post to (ie, the form element's action attribute) "index.php?q=node/add/page". (like it does on all the Mac and Linux servers I've setup with drupal).

What happens is that is just goes to "index.php".

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience of using Forms in Drupal. I wish to create a form where people register their details e.g. name, add, tel etc. and then when they press submit an email is fired off to an administrator with the details contained in the email.

thks,
Nolan.

Hi everybody,

a few days ago I spotted a very nice idea from the user hunvreus, who worked out a nice method to beautify drupal forms.
He describes this as a basic idea which has to be improved more:

The popup script works fine but need a bit of customization to take textareas, radios and checkboxes into account, the behavior could be improved to take the field focus into account, the style of the popup could be improved as well...

Hi all. I'm not sure how to go about this. I need to create a small form for entering an email address. but the form needs to be on the homepage. I've created form pages before but this has me stumped as it needs to be part of the content for the homepage. Any ideas...?

We are looking for a drupal developer who can help us out with a fair amount of custom work. We're a great company that loves having fun outside, and if you share that interest and lifestyle, it's a big plus! Many of the tasks we need done are fairly small, but the list of them is somewhat numerous. Were seeking a friendly, experienced, effective and efficient developer who has plenty of experience creating drupal modules, has a good working knowledge of drupal contributed modules, and comprehensive knowledge of the drupal API (5x and 6x), and be fluent in PHP/MySQL.

I know it seems like there has been a major release every other week, but this has only been due to the enormous amount of fixes and refinements being made due to the wonderful feedback of the Drupal community. I like to think that it never hurts to "release early, release often".

The big news for this release is file upload capabailities. This of course opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Due to these new capabilities and a number of other fixes, there have been some API changes and filename renames.

This is a very introductory look at Forms API in Drupal 6.

The focus is on basic and practical application, and should allow the newest Drupal programmer to be able to go create his or her own form, in Drupal 6.

Attached is the code for your perusal--It's the same as what's demonstrated in the video, with a bunch of comments. (I would have attached a tarball, but it was not an acceptable file format)

The 30-minute screencast is hosted at blip.tv.

NOTE: In the video, I fail to use check_plain() when outputting some user-generated content...For the sake of you and your web site, don't forget this step. The attached code example is i believe doing it right

Web Application Form Design
http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/web_forms.html

Web Form Design in the Wild, Part I
http://www.uie.com/articles/forms-fairmont-hotel/

Web Form Design in the Wild, Part 2
http://www.uie.com/articles/form_design_wild/

I am trying to weed out the many broken or duplicate flexinode fields.

The first differentation I want to make is between critical and non-critical fields. With a new release (4.7 and 5.0) the critical fields should all be released and working. Non-critical fields can be updated later.

I want to know what you consider critical fields, my personal list is included below.

• textfield
• textarea
• datefield/timestamp
• number
• image
• general file
• selectlist
• checkbox
• url
• email
• multiselect

Please leave your list in a comment.