Comments on: jQuery Form Builder Plugin

By: jQuery Form Builder 0.4 | Botsko.net - Web Development in Portland, Oregon

jQuery Form Builder 0.4 | Botsko.net - Web Development in Portland, Oregon — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:08:02 +0000

[...] need to write an extension application on top of my popular jQuery Form Builder plugin so I finally took the time necessary to perform some long-wanted updates. The xml-based form [...]

By: Michael Botsko

Michael Botsko — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:08:05 +0000

You can simply change the save method to serialize it all as json and send it wherever else you want it to go. You’d have to obviously write your own rendering system.

By: Ali Raza

Ali Raza — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:10:03 +0000

Can i use javascript to just generate a JSON representation of the serialized form? i dont want to use php, i want to somehow generate json from the serialized form when its POSTED and then process it? Could you guide me in the right direction?

By: webmasterdubai.com

webmasterdubai.com — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:56:24 +0000

hi there is bug in formation.php file at lines 499 and 545 if default is not define then this error is coming just put

if(in_array(‘default’,$item))

By: Michael Botsko

Michael Botsko — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:15:03 +0000

Putting the code on github and submitting a pull request is the best way, otherwise just send it me or publish it somewhere. Thanks!

By: Rodders

Rodders — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:11:06 +0000

Hi Michael,

I’ve added a simple jsonify plugin based on your export plugin that I’m using, so I store the json in database directly and skip the intermediate conversion steps.

If you want, I’d like to contribute this code back. What is the best way for me to do this?

By: ChrisB

ChrisB — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:00:37 +0000

Hi, nice plugin I’ve embedded this into the backend of my CMS and works nicely in terms of creating and saving the forms to db. When a created form is shown in the front end of the site, how can I handle the processing of it? i.e validating, then sending the form to an email address?

By: Michael Botsko

Michael Botsko — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:17:21 +0000

Because it unfortunately was not originally designed that way. I had wanted to support json originally it was still supposed to support pre-PHP5, which required a third party library for json encoding. We needed to get it working faster and because it was built as part of a larger cms, the xml was used for other things. Anyway, now we have a nice disconnect like you’ve mentioned. Someday I would like to make it use only JSON both in saving, and loading.

By: Rodders

Rodders — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:10:33 +0000

oh – i see you can import json & xml with fromJson() & fromXml() functions, but why not have the option to export directly to these formats too, rather than just as serialised array?

By: Rodders

Rodders — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:04:22 +0000

Very useful & works out of the box for me.

I have a question about functionality – it seems you can export as serialised data directly from javascript, but you cannot import from serialised data directly.

I see you’ve got PHP handlers to do JSON & XML. But why not have options to export and import directly from Javascript as JSON or XML?

Thanks – very cool plugin!