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I want to have a form that someone can fill in with a range of fields, then send by email as well as store in the DB.

I was looking at the email_from_template plugin but that has only limited fields.

What is the best way to approach this?

I’m sure this is basic stuff but still a noob here 😊

Thanks

greg

Check out Freeform from Solspace: http://www.solspace.com/software/detail/freeform/

Does everything you mention.

I was looking at Freeform and at first it looked like it was ideal. But it seems only to support text and text area field types. Pretty limiting.

I need to have checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.

Any way to do that?

Thanks

With both Freeform and EE’s Email Module you can build advanced forms, you can even automate form population by channel information if you want with FreeForm.

Again, just look at the freeform docs, there are even examples which use checkboxes, radio buttons etc etc; http://www.solspace.com/software/detail/freeform/#examples

Even with the EE’s own Email Module you can also create a form with checkboxes and radio buttons etc, but Freeform is more way more advanced.
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/email/contact_form.html

Thanks

I see the example but am missing something.

How do you create those fields in FF? When I go into the FF CP to create a field the only options are text input and area.

Greg

Except for a textarea, you can just create a text input field in the Freeform Field CP, this goes for text inputs, checkboxes, select option dropdowns, radio buttons, etc.

So for example, if you have this radio button field question:

Please choose your gender<br>
<input type="radio" name="gender" id="boy" value="boy" /> <label for="boy">Boy</label>
<input type="radio" name="gender" id="girl" value="girl" /> <label for="girl">Girl</label>

In the Freeform Field Control Panel you would create a text input field named “gender” to collect the data.

Hope that clears things up for you!

Ah yes, of course. The field type in this case is just a UI element and no matter what the output is all just text.

Duh.

Thanks for helping out

greg