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There's 200 form builders, but none do what a programmer can, so I built my own

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Re: There's 200 form builders, but none do what a programmer can, so I built my own

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Post by padseeker »

I've been building a form builder with a no code rules engine. Hoping to relaunch in the next couple of months. Have been redesigning the homepage and creating content to explain how it works. Here's a video of a tutorial;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDlKtyYf5Kc

Re: There's 200 form builders, but none do what a programmer can, so I built my own

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Post by padseeker »

gus_massa wrote: post #4

> None of them can do dynamic HTML. Does it mean custom HTML written by the creator of the form or just a few precanned options?

I mean custom HTML by the creator. You create a form rule to set the value of an HTML input, and then you can embed the values of inputs in the form into that html. I've used a lot of hidden inputs to determine values like even css classes to change how stuff gets displayed.

You can even append to an HTML value so you can use multiple rules to build up HTML content.

Re: There's 200 form builders, but none do what a programmer can, so I built my own

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Post by gus_massa »

padseeker wrote: post #5
gus_massa wrote: post #4

> None of them can do dynamic HTML. Does it mean custom HTML written by the creator of the form or just a few precanned options?

I mean custom HTML by the creator. You create a form rule to set the value of an HTML input, and then you can embed the values of inputs in the form into that html. I've used a lot of hidden inputs to determine values like even css classes to change how stuff gets displayed. You can even append to an HTML value so you can use multiple rules to build up HTML content.

Do you do some cleaning to avoid interference of the code of the creator and your code?
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