Large Forms

[torweb]

I currently have a client that I built several large forms for. Some of these have 20 fields. I registered for a form mail subscription but have only used it for smaller forms. Is this a good application for larger forms (before I dive in and try).

Thanks in advance

[Princess Platypus]

I'm interested in the answer to this as well. I'm in the process of switching to FormMail from another script. I have a form that has 51 fields, 37 of which are required.

So far, the only limitation that I seem to have found is the size of this field:
<input type="hidden" name="required" value=""> Somewhere around the 34th required field, the error messages start breaking down (even if the user has filled in the first 33 correctly, the field name gets truncated, so the user doesn't know which field they forgot). I'm using fmbadhandler.php and a custom error page.

[crabtree]

in FormMail's config section, look for PUT_DATA_IN_URL.

set it to false:
http://www.tectite.com/fmdoc/put_data_in_url.php

torweb: yes, formmail is great for large or small forms.

[Princess Platypus]

Crabtree - Thank you very much!

I changed PUT_DATA_IN_URL to false, but I'm still getting a problem with truncation. And I'm not sure if this is new or not, but I've also discovered that the point at which it truncates the list of required fields, it's not just failing to list them on the error page, it's no longer making them REQUIRED.

I can submit the form without those items being completed.

Is there anything else I should be checking?

[crabtree]

wot's the URL for ur form? i'll take a look

[Princess Platypus]

I very much appreciate any insight you can offer:

http://www.seattlepugs.com/adoption_application.html

[crabtree]

yep....ur required field is very long

its being truncated at 1024 which is the default for this setting:
http://www.tectite.com/fmdoc/maxstring.php

increase that and u should be fine.

btw, it's OK and a good idea to put line breaks in ur long special fields. just hit enter and indent after some of the , in the required value

[Princess Platypus]

Thanks, crabtree!

I fixed the maxstring so nothing's getting truncated.

Also broke up the required field per your suggestion.

And now, my form is working perfectly, exactly as I want it to. Thanks to Russell et al for making this available. It's far superior to the script I had been using.

[Maverick]

Disregard... the fabulous thread view options have duped me again..