On this page form properties are displayed.
- Form name is the value used to identify the form in the admin area only.
- Copy fields from represents a drop-down menu with all the existing forms. Select the form you want to copy the fields from
- Form color sets the color for the form
- Submit to specifies the destination of form submissions (database and/ or email address)
Note: if you don't choose any email template or specify an incorrect email address (multiple emails can be separated by commas), we do not guarantee that the submissions will be sent to your mail box.
- Send file (link/attach). The field is normally used for file upload forms. Once this check box is ticked, the uploaded files will be sent attached to the email body. Otherwise, the email will contain a browse/download link to the file, which is stored on your server within the phpForms directory in the folder called 'files'. Database submissions contain only open/download links to the uploaded files.
- Message displayed after submission is the alert message displayed after the form is submitted. Leave blank if you do not want to display a pop-up message after the form submission.
- HTML mail text. If the check box is ticked, your emails will be sent in an HTML format. You can use HTML tags and strings in your Mail Templates (see Mail Templates below)
- Preview form before SUBMIT. If checked, users will be able to preview the form before submission. Once you tick the Preview check box, 2 new options show up - Submit and Print. When you select the Submit check box, users will see the Submit button next to the Preview button (when they preview the form). Also, in this section users can Print the form out with all the data they've just input. Select the Print check box to enable the Print function*.
*Note: The Print button is available only when the form is previewed before its submission.
Anti-Spam Options. To add an image code (CAPTCHA) to your form, toggle the Ultimate Spam Protection check box. If you need to limit the number of submissions made from one and the same IP address, check Limit one entry per IP address. Once checked, users will be able to submit the form only once from the same IP address.
- Reload BACK. If checked, after the form submission users will be redirected to the page they came from to this form.
- Redirect to (http://... or blank). If you want to redirect a user to a certain URL after the form is submitted, type the URL in the "Redirect to" field. If no URL is set, users user stay on the form page.
- Button captions are the names of navigation buttons on the pages for multi-part forms and Submit button. The button names can be changed to your preferences.
- Database export settings. Use this option ONLY if you want to export form submissions to an external (third-party) database. If checked, you'll need to specify your database host name, port, database username/password, database name and the table where the data will be exported to. Also, you can test the connection by pressing the button 'Test connection'.* To export the form submissions to the specified database, go to the section Submissions and tick Database Export (see Export Form Submissions below).
*NOTE: PHPForms creates tables when a test connection is run, however, the database must already exist in your MySQL.
