Here we have our usual simple contact form built using Form Reform with the addition of a Send Email handler in the pipeline.
This handler has the actual email sending enabled. Please only use it to send email to yourself. If we receive complaints of abuse of this test, we will have to disable it.
Check out the edit mode details below.
The difference between this form and the getting started form is only in the submit processing. We have added a Send Email handler to the pipeline.
More details of configuring the Send Email handler can be found at Sending Email.
There is also a real consequence of any spammer using this form, so the spam detection has been dialed up to maximum with the addition of Anti Spammer Master.
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Source Page / Stack | Form Name | Block Type | Input Name |
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Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Email Input | |
Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Text Input | first_name |
Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Text Input | last_name |
Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Select Input | pronoun |
Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Message Display | |
Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Radioset Input | subject |
Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Text Area Input | message |
Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Honeypot | more |
Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Captcha | |
Example - Sending Email | form_reform | Submit Button | submit |
If you need a specialized template or a custom input element, you can design new templates or new block types for form elements as you would any block type.
Blocks are easy for third party addition or extension. Block templates and are the first thing any Concrete CMS developer learns to code. They are one of the easiest things to code. The underlying mechanisms are well established and reliable.
Form handlers are built about the same extensible plugin system as many of my other addons (Universal Content Puller, Omni Gallery, Extreme Clean ...).
The whole system is aimed at easy extension within Form Reform, by third party addons, by agencies and by site building developers.
Handlers can be easily added to do whatever you want with the form data.
Saving form data with Form Reform is simply a handler in the processing pipeline. You can save to multiple locations or just one location.
If you need to save data elsewhere, such as to a dedicated table, a table provided through another addon, to another database, send it to an API, forward it to another server, or anywhere you can imagine, you can adapt or develop a form handler to do so.
The complexity of the code depends on where you are saving or sending the data, but wrapping that into a form handler plugin for Form Reform is straight forward.
The Form Reform handler plugin system is designed for easy extension.
Reform the way forms are built. Build a form out of blocks. Take control of how form submissions are processed and how the submitted data is stored. Easy to extend. Easy to reconfigure. Tangible data. Easy to add your own integrations.
List and display form submissions from Form Reform.
Not just Form Reform and not just UTM! Capture and hold incoming UTM (or other) tags and make the tag values available to Form Reform and/or Conditional Redirect as {{place_holders}}. You don't need Form Reform to use this.
Form handlers for querying Microsoft Dynamics, forwarding and updating form data to Microsoft Dynamics.
A suite of advanced image capture and upload tools. Enhanced drag and drop file uploading. Make screengrabs from within Concrete CMS. Capture images directly from device webcams. Edit images before uploading.
Save submitted forms to Express objects and user attributes. Add and remove users from groups.
Form Reform Image Picker provides an image picking input block for Form Reform. The Image Picker Input is preconfigured to connect to most Omni Gallery gallery and slider display widgets, the core gallery block, and thumbnail showing templates for the core page list block. Advanced settings allow the Image Picker Input to be configured to pick images from other galleries and sliders.
Form Reform Data Picker provides data picking input blocks for Form Reform. The Table Picker Input is preconfigured to connect to Universal Content Puller table display widgets. Advanced settings allow the Table Picker Input to be configured to pick data from other HTML tables.
Extends Form Reform with form handler macros. Provides a new dashboard page at System & Settings > Form Reform > Form Reform Macros to manage macros, and form handlers to run macros.
A growing suite of resources to assist those developing blocks, handlers and more complex forms for Form Reform.
While you may have plans to implement some much more complex forms using Form Reform, we strongly recommend you start with a simple form such as our contact form example in order to review the basic principles of using Form Reform before you move onto anything bigger.
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