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Hi there,

You can embed pageworks pages in other code, by doing something like this:

$page=12;
include XOOPS_ROOT_PATH ."/modules/pageworks/index.php";

So then in Pageworks, you just need to make a page that looks like you want it do. The easiest way to do this might be the displayForm function, but there are other approaches. displayForm might be as simple as this:

displayForm(2);

That would display a blank form 2, with whatever the default permissions and options are for that form. You can control the options through the other parameters.

We are working on some admin pages that will let you specify different versions of a form as different "screens" and then you could access them through the URL with a "screen ID" like this:

http://www.yoursite.com/modules/formulize/index.php?sid=4

Screen four could be a blank version of form 2, or a multi-page version of form 2, or a particular saved view from the "list of entries" page.

Anyway, that's for the future, but I hope something here is helpful to you now.

--Julian

Hello, thanks for your interest in Formulize and Pageworks.

The "Using Formulize..." PDF is really intended for developers, rather than regular XOOPS users. Some real docs for regular users would be a very nice addition! We are working on some reporting docs at the moment, but nothing general about creating forms, etc.

If you have specific usage questions, please post in our area on dev.xoops.org. Responses have been slow lately, but we do always reply to everything eventually.

--Julian

FYI...for future readers, there is more information about this here:

http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3053&forum_id=746

--Julian

FYI for future readers...there are more details about this here:

http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3054&forum_id=746
and
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3053&forum_id=746

--Julian

We have a site where we had been storing some cached information in the /cache folder off the root. However it seems that at some point recently, the cached files there were erased (not by us).

Is there some XOOPS process that runs one out of every 100 page loads or something which removes files from that folder?

Thanks for any insights,

--Julian

Hi there,

Formulize can't do this for you automatically, but with a couple Pageworks pages ontop of your Formulize form, you can do this with very, very little PHP code. I have written up an outline here:

http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3076&forum_id=745

I hope this helps,

--Julian

Sorry for the delay. I think a similar question came up on dev.xoops.org? Anyway, would allowing PHP code as the contents of a "Text for display" element solve this issue? ie: you could check to see what groups a user was a member of using PHP, and then print out different text accordingly?

--Julian

Hello, thanks for your interest in the patch. I'm glad it has (mostly) worked out for you.

I'm not sure I understand your question. Can you please provide a sample URL so we know which file/page you're talking about?

Thanks, take it easy,

--Julian

Thanks for your interest in Formulize. Our demo site (http://demo.freeformsolutions.ca) shows some basic things, but is not a showcase of the really fancy and complex things you can do. There are several discussion threads in our area on dev.xoops.org that discuss creating some fairly complex applications. Here's a link to a couple recent ones:

http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3036&forum_id=745
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3004&forum_id=745

The second one is lengthy, but has code sample for Pageworks in it. Also, the "Using Formulize..." PDF available from our dev.xoops.org area contains a lot of examples and conceptual information.

If you want the really quick and dirty overview of what simple code you can write in Pageworks to do cool things....



That code outputs a list of names and ages based on the data submitted in that form. There are also single functions that you can use to display forms inside Pageworks pages, and that function handles all saving and retrieving of data.

That example is no substitute for the detail in the threads linked above, but hopefully gives you a basic idea of what's possible.

There's also a lot of power and control in terms of the permission options that you can hand out on a form by form basis. When you have a complex structure of groups of users in your site, you can do neat things like have volunteers fill in data in forms and only access their own info, but simply through permission controls you can open up a view of all the data to the volunteer coordinators, or you can even subdivide by region or city if your groups of users are organized that way.

There's also a whole series of "data browsing" options in the standard "list of entries" view (which you can see in the demo site). It's been described (not by me) as MS Access on the web. Any summary information that can be presented in that list can also be published automatically to other groups of users.

We always respond to all forum postings in our area on dev.xoops.org, though not necessarily very quickly depending on the complexity of the issue, and how busy we are.

Good luck,

--Julian

Each mentoring organization is expected to provide several things:

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60291&topic=10732

I would be very happy to assist with mentoring a student. I think the most important thing is for the core developers to put their ideas on the table for what work needs to get done.

I have a ton of ideas for what could/should be done in the 2.0.x branch, since we use that all the time right now. But I don't know 2.3 and I'd be interested to hear what skalpa and phppp see as the priorities.

--Julian