Sample Form

Introduction & Features

All right! Now let's look at a simple one-page form to which we're going to add our validation. Adding validation to a page is the same for single or multi-page forms - to the information read here is directly transferrable to any API form.

As mentioned earlier, at this point we're assuming that it's already been configured with the API and the form submissions are being added to Form Tools.

Here's the entire PHP and HTML of our form. It's just a simple "comments" form with four fields: subject, name, email and comments.

<?php
require_once("path/to/form_tools/global/api/api.php");
$fields = ft_api_init_form_page("X"); // X would be your form ID
$params = array(
  "submit_button" => "sbmt",
"next_page" => "thanks.php",
"form_data" => $_POST,
"finalize" => true
);
ft_api_process_form($params);
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
	<title>Sample Form</title>
</head>
<body>

<form method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]?>">

Subject: <select name="subject">
	<option value=""
	<?php if ($fields["subject"] == "") echo "selected"; ?>>Please Select</option>
	<option value="General Comment"
	<?php if ($fields["subject"] == "General Comment") echo "selected"; ?>>General Comment</option>
	<option value="Bug Report"
	<?php if ($fields["subject"] == "Bug Report") echo "selected"; ?>>Bug Report</option>
	<option value="Feature Suggestion"
	<?php if ($fields["subject"] == "Feature Suggestion") echo "selected"; ?>>Feature Suggestion</option>
</select><br />
Name: <input type="text" name="fullname"
			 value="<?=htmlspecialchars($fields["fullname"])?>" /><br />
Email: <input type="text" name="email" value="<?=htmlspecialchars($fields["email"])?>" /><br />
Comments: <textarea name="comments"><?=$comments?></textarea>

<input type="submit" name="sbmt" value="Submit Form" />

</form>

</body>
</html>