Web Form Builder (HTML version) Tips...

Nov 12th, 2016 at 02:52 PM
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jamo
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Oben wrote:
I want my form displayed when a link(button created with XARA WEB DESIGNER) is clicked. I can't find a way to make it work. It works with a simple text as a link. Any suggestion in how to do it?
Thanks

This is the code that goes into the <body> :

<!-- Start of the body content for CoffeeCup Web Form Builder -->
<a class='fb_iframe' href="./ContactForm/ContactForm.html">Click here</a>
<!-- End of the body content for CoffeeCup Web Form Builder -->


In Xara select the button and give it the name
htmlclass=fb_iframe :)

Nov 12th, 2016 at 09:23 PM
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Oben
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Thanks James, Could you please explain it a little more? What do I change in the <head> code?
Jan 26th, 2017 at 12:30 PM
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Designing custom Contact Form with Web Form Builder

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Jan 27th, 2017 at 01:00 AM
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Part 2: Adding Functionality To Basic Contact Form

https://youtu.be/39DoZo1v2RU

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Dec 5th, 2018 at 05:55 PM
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Les Merryman
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The question hasn't been asked that I can locate in the forums, and it was a concern of mine. Since there was no documentation found on my searches, I thought I'd try and save somebody else the grief figuring this one out.

One of the last pieces of information when a form is submitted, is the IP address of the form user. If the form is used on an internal network, there is no issue, but hosting on a public server does no good getting a local IP address. What is needed is the public IP address, both would be helpful if somebody was abusing the system. That said, I found a quick fix.

Open the formpage.cls.php file in the fbapp/php directory, locate the section which sets "SetPostValues", you will immediately see a comment "// ip address and timestamp". This is the section we need to modify by commenting out the lines like in the example below:

// if( isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] ) ) {
//
// list( $this->post[ '_fromaddress_' ] ) = explode( ',', $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] );
//
// } else {
//
$this->post[ '_fromaddress_' ] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ;
// }
}

Now when you run your form, the public IP address will be captured, and not the internal network private IP address.
Hope this helps others, I spent a significant time searching code trying to find this gem. The extra comment marks on the blank lines are not necessary, but I used them as a visual flag as I'm scrolling through code, you could also remove the lines entirely, but commenting them out means you can reverse the changes in a snap.
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