tip of the day

Making a simple web form.

Forms in j2e are wonderful things. It is just2easy to create a form for data collections, surveys and feedback. Save as ‘html’, and the forms sit on the web, can be accessed by everyone, or even password protected.

To create a form you need to add 1. an entry field to collect the data, and 2. a push button to send the data.
Use the ‘add object’ button to find these, and then position them on your page. Here are mine.

Now select the entry field, and in the tools on the right give it an appropriate name. I’ve called mine ‘feedback’. Now save your page and make sure ‘as html’ is selected.

Try entering some feedback on my form, and press ‘send’. As owner of the form, I will get an email telling me the data that has been entered. The data is also stored in a table, which the form owner can see from the ‘form results’ button.

One last trick. If you add ?results to the web page address of a form, you can see the table of results. Here is a link to mine. www.j2e.com/geoff/tipOfTheDay?results

For more form ideas, have a look at this.