Supple Forms – A WordPress CMS Plugin
I am pleased to announce the release of Supple Forms, a CMS plugin for WordPress. If you’ve been looking for content management on WordPress, Supple Forms may be part of your solution. It is easy, flexible, powerful, and lightweight. Supple Forms offers two significant functions for your blog: 1) building custom write panels for the WordPress Write Post page; and 2) easy inserting of form data and HTML snippets into your posts.
Supple Forms may help you if you want to:
- add custom data to posts through easy-to-use meta boxes
- you want to store data in a Custom Table, giving you coders flexibility for robust queries on your data
- easily format your custom data with HTML snippets and insert it into Posts using a simple shortcode – ex. [supple snip='address_box']
- insert any kind of HTML or Javascript snippets into your posts using simple shortcodes
Quick Start Video Guide
Update: I have created a 2 part video guide (15 minutes total) to quickly get you started with the basics of Supple Forms. Check out both videos here.
Download
Download Supple Forms on WordPress.org: Supple Forms
Features
- Custom write panel or Meta box that displays on the Write Post form
- Fields utilizing textboxes, dropdown lists, radio buttons, checkboxes, textareas, and a jQuery DatePicker
- Allows fields with multiple values
- Options for placement of the custom meta box (after title, after the wysiwyg editor, at the bottom)
- Choose between storing data in a Custom Table or as WordPress’ own Custom Fields….note that multiple value fields will be stored as WP Custom Fields
- Insert field values into posts with a flexible shortcode api
- Create reuseable HTML (really HTML, Javascript or any valid XHTML) snippets – we call them snips in Supple Forms – that can utilize field values
- Easily insert snips into posts with a shortcode
- Specify CSS code to be inserted with your HTML snips
On the Drawing Board (A Road Map for Supple Forms)
We’re not stopping here! Down the road, here are some features that I’d like to get into the plugin:
Yeah…need to add delete fields ability- Create separate Write Pages that utilize different Supple Form sets
- Allow placing forms within a post that could be editable by your visitors – the data generated by these could be Post specific or not
- Add optional ajax Auto-fill or Auto-complete to Textboxes
- Allow execution of PHP code within HTML snips
- Add options for automatically adding HTML snips to top or bottom of Posts
- Let me know what your wishlist includes…just add a comment below!
- Add sidebar widgets for snips
- Request: add ability to output data as a sortable table in posts
- Option to make fields required
- Request: add ability to use a field’s values as tags
- Request: query capabilitis…search does not search Custom Fields
- Request: add a WYSIWYG editor option for forms
- Allow comma’s in the selection lists for fields
- Template tags
Usage
Using Supple Forms is extremely simple:
- After uploading and activating the Supple Forms plugin (see the Installation page), you’re ready to begin building your form
- In the Supple Forms menu, click Form Settings to set form level defaults
- Enter a Form Title. This will be the title that shows in the form box on the Write Post/Page page
- Choose other form-level defaults such as whether to store data in a Custom Table or in WP Custom Fields
- In the Supple Forms menu, click Add/Edit Fields to add fields to your custom form.
- Add new fields or Edit existing ones by making the proper selection in the Select field dropdown box
- If you chose Custom Table as the storage option on the Form Settings page, a Generate Table button will be available on the Add/Edit Fields screen. You will a warning to Generate the table after a field is created or edited until you run the Generate Table option. However, do not Generate Table until you are done adding/editing your fields. It won’t break anything, but it is a best practice to wait. You can generate the table as often as you want, but waiting until you are done editing fields prevents creating extraneous fields in your database. Supple Forms will not Delete table fields or custom tables. We don’t want to risk you losing any data by stray clicks. So if you end up creating fields that later get changed, you will can delete them through phpMyAdmin or another database management tool.
- After you’ve added your fields and generated the Your fields will now be available on the Write Post/Page pages
- Saving a post/page or publishing a post/page saves your custom field data as well. Custom field data is not saved in the revisions. It is only linked to the actual Post ID record (not the revision IDs)
- To create HTML snips for inserting into posts/pages, in the Supple Forms menu, click the HTML Snips Editor
- In the HTML Snips Editor, you can create pre-formatted HTML snippets that include your data. Simply place your field names in brackets and insert them in your snips. For example: <div class=’neatbox’>I live in [city]</div>
- The name you give your HTML snip will be used in the shortcode that you insert into your posts/pages. For example, a snip named address_box would be inserted with this shortcode: [supple snip='address_box']
- Finally, place shortcodes like [supple snip='my_snip'] in your posts or pages.
- For the programmer in you, you have direct access to your custom table from within your template code. Use the WordPress database object ($wpdb) to perform SQL commands and queries on your data. Your table name (if using Custom Table) is shown in red on the Form Settings page. Supple Forms utilizes your defined WordPress table prefix ($wpdb->prefix) + the prefix “supple_”. So a table that you named destinations would normally be in the database as: wp_supple_destinations (unless you changed your $wpdb->prefix to something other than the default (wp_))
Changelog:
- 0.1.62 (3/8/2009) when displaying values, now replaces new lines with br tags. This problem was evident from the multi-line textboxes where new lines didn’t render new lines.
The WordPress CMS Revolution Continues
WordPress is such a great platform with such a strong community, that it is only natural that people will want to push it to the limits of creativity. I hope that Supple Forms will be yet another brick in paving the WordPress CMS road. I also hope that you will help me make Supple Forms better, stronger, faster…maybe one day, even, Bionic Forms.
Donations
While your using Supple Forms would be a reward in-and-of itself to me, I would certainly appreciate any donation that you cared to make if this has been helpful to you. Of course, a little write up or review on your blog would be appreciated as well.
Byron
Popularity: 65%
Filed under: Blogging, WordPress
February 13th, 2009 at 10:01 am
This plugin looks powerful. How do you balance between features for power users and making it simple for basic users?
My preference is to have a minimal setup that works without understanding anything, but can then later be customized to any degree.
Can you make ‘beginner’ usage instructions which would be comprised of no more than 3 simple steps?
February 13th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Hi Amir,
Based on your preference for minimal setup without having to know the details, I think Supple Forms would be a good fit. It should be very easy to get going and start displaying your data. But it also give a power user a lot of flexibility as well.
I will indeed be putting together both a quick start guide and power user reference.
Hopefully over the next few days, it’ll be available.
Cheers,
Byron
February 13th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Hi Byron,
We’re putting together a mega-plugin for turning WP into a multilingual CMS:
http://sitepress.org
If you’re familiar with Drupal, you’ll see that our implementation and the Drupal i18n module share the same architecture.
It includes a plugin packager that can auto-install plugins with themes. The idea is to bundle a few powerful plugins and include with themes so that theme designers can implement CMS features without having to invent the wheel time and time again.
We don’t have a contact form feature right now. Would you be interested in including your plugin in this package?
I must admit that I haven’t tried your plugin yet but from this review it sounds just right.
February 13th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
February 13th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
This is just what I was looking for, REALLY! Thank you
What is an HTML Snips Editor?
My wish list:
1. Ability to delete fields. I played around with it as a test, now I can’t get rid of my testing fields.
2. Ability to make fields required.
February 13th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Bryon,
Thanks for the plugin, havent started using yet. Is it possible to utilise so that I can extract values from the wordpress database and then output in a sortable table format that will be included on a post or page. Think the wp-table plugin did that however no longer works with the latest wp version. Could I achieve similar with your plugin.
Thanks
Marc
February 13th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Hi Baron.
Thanks! Glad you’re liking it.
Kathy
Yes, that is the very next thing I need to do…delete fields. Should have been in there before…sorry.
As for the HTML Snips Editor, that lets you create any HTML that you want and have it inserted into your Posts using the shortcode: [supple snip='mySnipName']
You can show field values in snips by including a code like: [myfieldname]
They make it really easy to format your values and put them in your posts.
Thanks for trying it out. Hope to have your feature request done soon!
Marc
Welcome! As it is, Supple Forms doesn’t do what you’re looking for by itself. If you’re a coder, you can pretty easily do it in your templates, but SF doesn’t do it out of the box. I will put your request on the wish list…Good suggestion
Thanks to everyone who is breaking in Supple Forms. Today is day 2 of it being in the wild, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find a few things that don’t work quite right.
Cheers,
Byron
February 14th, 2009 at 1:45 am
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February 14th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Worked fine on a test blog. Now when I install on a new WP site, I’m getting this error message.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/ragin8/public_html/songdatabase/wp-content/plugins/supple-forms/supple-admin.php on line 63
February 14th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Hi Kathy,
That sounds like the file might not have gotten copied in completely. Could you delete the Supple Forms plugin folder and upload the whole folder again? That might fix it. Let me know if it doesn’t
Thanks,
Byron
February 14th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
No, didn’t work. I deleted it and then reinstalled it, twice. Once from your download link, and once from the WP download link.
February 14th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I don’t understand it. It’s still working on my test site, but not in the new site.
February 14th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Kathy,
I hear you…I’m looking into it. It might have to do with the fix I put in for Deleting Fields. Does your test site have the Delete button on the fields? (Just checking to see if it’s the same version of Supple Forms).
Hopefully I’ll get it figured out shortly.
Byron
February 14th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Kathy,
Another theory…I think it might have to do with the ‘public’ keyword that is used in the function on line 63. I believe there might be a difference between the ways PHP 4 and PHP5 deal with it (maybe even different versions of PHP 5).
I’m going to remove that keyword and see if that fixes it for you. Give it 20 minutes or so for WordPress to cycle through to version 0.1.3.
Let me know if we don’t get it with this one.
Byron
February 14th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
ERROR ALL GONE NOW !!!
Thank you.
February 14th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
0.1.3 is out on WordPress. It might take a bit for it to show up in the automatic upgrade, but you can download automatically. Hopefully that fixes it.
BB
February 14th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Ah….typing at the same time, we were
Glad it worked! Thanks for the heads up.
Byron
February 14th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Hi Byron,
This is a phenomenal piece of work! Really excellent execution and concept. I can’t wait until you get a chance to work on the widget as well.
One thing I’ve noticed that seems to be a bit of an issue – when I go to update an article it erases the custom field data. It seems like there must something in the wordpress engine that could assist you here (easier said than done). Keep up the great work!
Aris
February 14th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Hi Aris,
Thanks! Glad you like it.
I see what you mean about the Custom Fields disappearing. Looks like the Multi-Value items are working fine, but when you’ve got Custom Fields turned on…not saving the data.
Looks like there’s going to be a version 0.1.4 after all
Thanks!
Byron
February 14th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Aris,
0.1.4 is out on WordPress now. That should fix the Custom Fields issue. Let me know if you see anything else. Just hope I didn’t break anything with fix!
Cheers!
Byron
February 14th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Great I’ll let you know as soon as the update comes in.
Thanks much,
Aris
February 14th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
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February 15th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Hi,
I can’t make it work with Cyrillic alphabet :/
Here’s the error:
Invalid field name: Ð?оделÑ?. Use only letters, numbers, and underscore (_).
February 15th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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February 15th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Excellent update Byron! It works perfectly. Thanks for the top notch code.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Aris
Cool! Glad to hear it’s working. I appreciate the comments!
Hi Avaz,
I’m sorry, but I’m not really sure how to deal with any character sets other than standard English. The problem you’re running into is that there is a Regular Expression in supple-admin.php that checks to the field name you give it to make sure that it is A-Z, a-z, 0-9, or underscore. I thought these would be safe for field names in the MySQL table. If MySQL can handle field names that use the characters your trying to use, you should probably be able to disable that RegEx call by returning TRUE in the checkName function.
To do that, open file: supple-admin.php
Find function: function checkName($text)
Make the first line of code in the function (after the opening ‘{‘ ): return true;
That should shortcut the check and let you make the field names anything you like. Just make sure you keep it something that is acceptable as a field name in MySQL. I’d prefer not to take the check out of the standard code because it should steer most people in the right direction.
Hope that helps,
Byron
February 18th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Running WP 2.71., and when I try to activate SF, I am getting the following error message:
Supple Forms not installed properly.
Tables not installed properly: wp_sppl_fields, wp_sppl_snips, wp_sppl_forms, wp_sppl_lookup
I’m logged in as the Admin user – can you tell me how to fix this error?
February 18th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Trisha,
This sounds like a problem that I’ve been struggling with on my PhotoSmash plugin as well. You could build those tables manually, but if you ever wanted to use the Custom Table option in Supple Forms, it probably wouldn’t be able to build your custom table. You could probably use the WP Custom Fields option, without a problem, but I’m having trouble figuring out why these plugins won’t build tables on some WordPress systems.
Is your blog running on a Linux server or a Windows server? Are you running PHP 4 or 5? What version of MySQL are you running? 4 or 5?
I may be barking up the wrong tree with those questions, but I’m trying to see if there is a pattern.
So, here are the things you can try:
1) deactivate the plugin and reactivate it….just to see if something went temporarily haywire
2) go into your database manager, probably phpMyAdmin, and create the tables manually using the sql statements below…you should be able to post them into the SQL section.
I’ll get you the SQL shortly…debugging it now.
February 18th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Trisha,
Here’s the SQL if you want to try creating the Supple Forms tables manually. Again, the problem you’re having probably precludes you from using the Custom Table option, but you should be able to use the WP Custom Fields option just fine. Snips and everything else ought to work as well. Hopefully I figure out what the problem is and have a fix soon. If anybody else knows what I should try, I’d be much obliged if you’d give me a clue
The SQL:
CREATE TABLE wp_sppl_fields (
field_id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
form_id INT(4) NOT NULL default ‘0′,
field_name VARCHAR(50) ,
label VARCHAR(255) ,
type INT(4) ,
numeric_field TINYINT(1) NOT NULL default ‘0′,
multi_val TINYINT(1) NOT NULL,
default_val varchar(255),
html_filter TINYINT(1),
seq INT(4) ,
status TINYINT(1) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY (field_id)
) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
CREATE TABLE wp_sppl_lookup (
id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
field_id INT(4) ,
value VARCHAR(255) ,
label VARCHAR(255) ,
seq INT(4) ,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
CREATE TABLE wp_sppl_snips (
snip_id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
snip_name VARCHAR(30) ,
auto_add TINYINT NOT NULL default ‘0′,
snip TEXT ,
css TEXT ,
lists VARCHAR(255) ,
PRIMARY KEY (snip_id)
) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
CREATE TABLE wp_sppl_forms (
form_id INT(4) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
form_title VARCHAR(250) ,
placement TINYINT(1) NOT NULL default ‘0′ ,
use_custom_fields TINYINT(1) NOT NULL default ‘1′,
custom_tablename VARCHAR(30) ,
post_related TINYINT(1) NOT NULL default ‘1′,
write_page INT(4) NOT NULL default ‘1′,
hide_wp_customfields TINYINT(1) NOT NULL default ‘1′,
seq INT(4) ,
status TINYINT(1) NOT NULL default ‘1′,
PRIMARY KEY (form_id)
) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
February 18th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
BTW, that SQL should work on MySQL 5, not sure about 4…let me know if it doesn’t go through.
BB
February 18th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Okay I tried that, and got this error (below) – likely because I have MySQL 4.0 – I can upgrade to 5.0 if necessary but I’d prefer to not have to go that route if I don’t have to.
Error
SQL query:
CREATE TABLE wp_sppl_fields(
field_id INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
form_id INT( 4 ) NOT NULL default ‘0′, field_name VARCHAR(50) , label VARCHAR(255) , type INT(4) , numeric_field TINYINT(1) NOT NULL default ‘0 & #8242;,
multi_val TINYINT( 1 ) NOT NULL ,
default_val varchar( 255 ) ,
html_filter TINYINT( 1 ) ,
seq INT( 4 ) ,
STATUS TINYINT( 1 ) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( field_id )
) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
MySQL said: Documentation
#1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘0′,
multi_val TINYINT(1) NOT NULL,
default_val varchar(
February 18th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Hello,
I’m really pleased that I stumbled across Supple Forms, it’s a great plugin and has helped me a lot in building a storefront site using WP. I have run into a problem though: After installing Supple Forms I can no longer use the “Add Image” button on the main Post edit box. Instead of the normal image dialog display, the dialog shows:
Are you sure you want to do this?
Please try again.
I’m using WP 2.7
Cheers,
Steve.
February 18th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Trisha,
I have just uploaded a new version to WordPress. You should see 0.1.5 out there some time soon. I have changed the database table creation code to hopefully be compatible with MySQL 4. Let me know how it goes. Fingers crossed that it’ll fix your problem.
Byron
February 18th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Steve,
Glad to hear the SF is helpful….at least your error is one that I can actually reproduce – makes debugging a little easier (knock on wood!). I’m on it!
Thanks,
Byron
February 18th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Steve,
I think I’ve got the image upload problem fixed in version 0.1.6. Give that a try when it comes out. Good catch…Thanks!
Byron
February 19th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Fabulous Byron! Worked like a charm! Took me just a little bit to work thru the instructions and figure out what to do, but I’ve got it working great – thanks for your help and for this great plugin!
February 19th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Thanks Trisha,
I’m glad that the fix worked for you. With the problems I’ve been having on my PhotoSmash plugin, it’s good to have something working right for a change
Byron
February 19th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I have version 0.1.4 If I download 0.1.6, will I have to reenter my Fields?
I’m happy with it now, so I hesitate to mess with it.
February 19th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Kathy,
I 100% hear you, but it should not affect any data that you have entered already. I have upgraded my test blog with no harmful effect on existing data.
All the same, if you are concerned, it really would be good to make a copy of your database just in case. You will definitely want to keep up with the most current versions going forward. 0.1.6 fixes a problem with uploading images to your posts.
If you have the wp-backup plugin ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ ), be sure to select your Supple Forms tables as additional tables to back up.
I don’t want to say, fear not, but it really should be ok to upgrade.
Byron
February 19th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Great Plugin Byron….
Question: How do I format the date field output?
Thanks for your hardwork.
Boots
February 19th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Hmm… I’m wondering if there is something wrong. I used the data viewer and saw 52 rows for 4 posts. It is as though it is keeping prior states of data.
I would have expected one row of supple data for each post.
Do I have a problem? If so, how do I fix this? I was using 1.4 and upgraded 1.6 without editing any posts.
Thanks
Boots
February 19th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Hi Boots,
Thanks for bringing that back up. I’d seen that problem before, but then it “went away”, but not really. The duplication only happened when you saved a post without changing the Supple Forms data for that post. It thought because nothing was updated that nothing existed. I’ve fixed that in version 0.1.61. If I could name versions, that one would be named Boots
cause that’s all that got fixed. If you resave a post, Supple Forms will clean up the duplicates for that post. It doesn’t clean them all up at once, unfortunately, but hopefully this won’t be too much of pain.
Now somebody is asking about formatting dates….hmmm.
Cheers!
Byron
February 19th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Boots,
I didn’t realize that was you asking about the dates
I’m looking into how we can make that easy. Will keep you posted.
BB
February 19th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Byron: Thanks for 1.6.1 aka Boots.
I’ll report back how it cleans up the db file.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Byron:
1.6.1 still writes a new event line if I’m updating info in the message box while not updating data in supple form.
Can you tell me what tells supple which event record it displays for a given post? The most recent?
`supple-write.php start line 150
$reccnt = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT COUNT(post_id) as cnt FROM ”
. ” $tablename WHERE post_id = “.$data['post_id']);
if( $reccnt 1){
//delete existing records based on POST ID…must change when go to
//forms that don’t rely on POST ID
$wpdb->query(“DELETE FROM $tablename WHERE post_id = $post_id”);
$wpdb->insert($tablename, $data);
$this->message = “Supple data inserted.”;
} else {
$this->message = “Supple data updated”;
}`
I can’t see what’ not working here.
Boots
February 20th, 2009 at 10:19 am
First of all, this is REALLY AWESOME plug in, Love it!
couple of questions:
1. If I am updating a record, it is actually incerting a new record, as Boot said above
2. In date picker, can it just show date, not year and time? In my site, I use it for “application deadline”, it appears year, date and time, while all I need is only date. take a look at: http://narcie.org/index.php/rice-university/
February 20th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Boots,
Bummr….this code cleared out my duplicates fine, unless I made some change after I tested, but I don’t think I did. One thing I do need to change in that code is in the line:
$wpdb->query(”DELETE FROM $tablename WHERE post_id = $post_id”);
I want to change the “= $post_id” to ” = ‘.$data['post_id']” just to be consistent with the lines above, and as an injection safeguard.
But, doesn’t the logic of that snippet you posted look right? (Note that the if($reccnt) statement lost the > and < due to html parsing).
To your question on which record gets used by Supple Forms when there are duplicates for a post, it just grabs the first record. They should all be the same because the UPDATE statement ends up updating all records that have the same post ID. The trouble is that you don’t want to be updating 50 records everytime you update a post.
Please let me know if you figure something out…I’ll keep trying.
Byron
February 20th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Byron – I’m a knuclehead… I had to cycle each post to clean up all the redundant supple records. 1.61 Boots is looking much better
On another note, I was having difficult formatting the message with embedded snips to provide where needed. I even made a snip to line_space Sometimes WP is just finicky… may not be the plug-in at all. And I have a 43 total plugins so it’s hard to isolated issues.
Your roadmap looks good. I will have some items to add to it.
Best regards,
Boots
February 21st, 2009 at 12:36 am
Boots,
That’s really good news. It looked solid and seemed to work for me, but you never know.
For a snip, the code should be like:
[supple snip='line_space']
just put it wherever you like. What I don’t know is if there is a filter that comes after the shortcode call that is wiping out your new text.
BB
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Hi Narcie,
Sorry I missed you comment when it was originally posted. To your questions:
1) We have the duplicate entries problem fixed in version 0.1.61
2) Boots also requested this one…I’m going to have to work on that a little bit, but I should be able to give you some formatting options
BB
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:38 pm
To: BB
I had a list going for a wish list and then I found a plugin that I’m hoping will insert your snips with its sniplets. Kinda convolutated, heh? Will see if Mr. Urban Giraffe can quickly resolve the issue with his today’s build.
Here’s my real short wish list. More to come.
1) quicktag function to view and insert available snips and snippets – huge productivity booster
STOP THE PRESSES – Urban Giraffe has a superb plug that will do the trick: http://www.urbangiraffe.com/plugins/sniplets/ – See the love shared in my comment on John’s site.
2) form assignment granuality: set to none, posts, pages, or both; set to specific category or categories; this will allow form to show in edit mode only for desired targets.
at specific post/page add new/edit stage, toggle form on/off. in future version of plugin with multiple forms, offer select list to attached to post
… just for you to ponder.
Cheers,
Boots (aka 0.1.6.1, aka bb)
PS: You ABAP?
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Hey Boots,
No ABAP…mostly BeBop for me…sorry, soooooo corny. You? I’m a FICO/accounting guy, moved back to IT a couple years ago (wow how time flies).
Thanks for the mention on Urban Giraffe!!! I hope that the more people use SF, the better it can become for everyone. Also thanks for sharing your wish list….I have my own list, but knowing what is important to users will help me prioritize my work on this plugin.
1) I read through a bit of the Sniplets documentation, and that does look powerful. I particularly envy the execution of PHP code that it allows. I’ve been pondering how to allow that within the Snips in SF, but I’m a little scared to open up that box just yet. I’ve considered the dreaded eval(), or also letting you create a .php on the fly within the Snips Editor and giving you an [include] tag, though I don’t know if that would be any more secure than eval().
At any rate, the Snips Editor is a particular area I want to beef up. I’m not sure what you meant by the “quicktag function”. Do you mean like a previewer? Please elaborate.
2) Yes, this is definitely a major deal, and I’ve tried to build this initial release so that it can accommodate the things you’re discussing. Here’s a little list of the things I want SF to ultimately do in the forms area:
There’s a lot to be done there. Baby steps for now.
Thanks again for spreading the love!
Byron
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:39 am
@Byron – I’d guess reference to quicktag is request for something on the toolbar of the editor. The “more” is an example of that on both the WYSIWYG and HTML post editors.
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:21 am
Michael,
Oh, thanks for weighing in…That would be a great addition. Adding to the rapidly expanding list.
Cheers,
Byron
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I just installed the Supple Forms plug in and tested it. And it looks like everything I’m wondering about the plugin doing or not doing is in one of your posts. I’ve listed below and how they pertain to my site.
* Be tied to posts/pages or not
-data from form to display on one particular page,
-only author and up level to be able to add data to the form
* Allow multiple records in the Custom Table (versus multiple value fields, the whole form would create multiple records as you like, giving you a little grid that you could click to edit/delete existing records)
-data to display as multiple records on the page in a spreadsheet-like format
Ideally, because this is a racing site, I’d like for visitors going to that page to have the ability to search for specific data by horse, and the spreadsheet could refresh itself with just that horse’s data. But for now if all that’s available is the entire spreadsheet of data to display on a page, that would be fine with me. Can this be done? I don’t want this form attached to posts, just to a page.
The fields in the custom table are
horse, sire, dam, dam’s sire, trainer, race record 1,2,3, total earnings, graded stakes earnings, workout distance, workout time, workout date, workout location.
So when going to the “Triple Crown Workouts” page, I’d like visitors to be able to view a running spreadsheet with data that’s only updatable by authors, editors and the site administrator. Hope this makes sense!
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Hi Krystyna,
Yes, that makes perfect sense. SF is not there yet, but it’s definitely on the road map….unfortunately, not much help to you right now.
The solution for this would be to allow multiple records for post/page. And build an option for outputting a spreadsheet with some filters.
Thanks for weighing in on the roadmap. The list is growing faster than I can type
Once we get there, Supple Forms will be a pretty powerful little tool for data management and querying.
I’m always open to folks contributing code if anyone gets the itch to write some
Byron
February 26th, 2009 at 7:41 am
I’ve tried out the latest build at it fixes the problem with the Image Upload dialog.
Thanks!
February 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
the first quick start movie stops @ 0.44 Minutes. Second played well.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
[...] other [?]box image viewers. Haven’t tested with IE 7 or 8. FF appears OK. Check out Supple Forms for a Flutter [...]
March 4th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I have two requests to improve the code.
1. is it possible to make it UTF-8 code? I am using it, but once I input Chinese, it can’t displayed, I have to inject it in phpmyadmin, but once the admin page is reloaded, it displays unrecognized and add more codes again itself, making it totally unrecognized in display in the frontend.
2. Multi-value is not useful. Say I use it for following multi-value: political science, information sciences, public administration studies. In display it joints together, simply becoming “political science information sciences public administration studies”, no comma, no line breaks, just becomes one big whole chunk of text, which is not formated at all, especially for me, when I have a long list of faculty names. I studied your code and postmeta again and again trying to formated but still cann’t achieve it. Is it possible to solve this problem? or simply not using postmeta?
March 4th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Hi Narcie,
1) On UTF-8, Supple Forms utilizes whatever default character set you have set in WordPress when it creates the tables. Search supple-admin.php for:
$wpdb->charset
You should be able to see what character set is getting created by looking at the field definitions in phpmyadmin. If it is indeed storing the data in UTF-8, let me know and I’ll look into whether you can affect the character set on the output side. If it is not creating UTF-8, make sure that your WordPress default character set is UTF-8.
2) For multi-value fields, you should be able to use a shortcode like: [supple field='my_multivalue_field' list='ol']
For the separator, you can also use: ul, ol, or any string enclosed in quotes. Only ul and ol will be changed to tags.
You can also do this using snips. There is a section at the bottom of the snip editor page that lets you specify different styles of separators for multi-value fields.
Hopefully that will get you what you’re looking for.
Byron
March 5th, 2009 at 1:36 am
I got the following messages when I tried to activate the plugin:
Supple Forms not installed properly.
Tables not installed properly: wp_sppl_fields, wp_sppl_snips, wp_sppl_forms, wp_sppl_lookup
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class SuppleForms in /home/***/public_html/test2/wp-content/plugins/supple-forms/supple-forms.php on line 36
Please help! It looks like the plugin I was looking for… I need something to do sport player profiles and this is the closer plugin I’ve found to do that.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:40 am
PS: I have php 5, and yes, I tried to create the tables manually “copypasting” the sql consult you post and it threw a syntax error.
March 5th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Hey Byron
If I make add character like öäüõ then after updating post it will give öäüõ then updating again it make this into Ã?¶Ã?¤Ã?¼Ã?µ and so one…
I tried to find how to fix this encoding problem it but failed… If I disable this plugin and use wordpress own field it works.
can you help out people who use weird characters in their everyday life
March 5th, 2009 at 2:21 am
sorry i missed last comment, but i have everything in UTF8
echo $wpdb->charset; outputs UTF8
March 5th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Hi Sven,
Could you check the database with phpMyAdmin and see what the text fields are being encoded as? Look for tables like: wp_sppl_forms or for you custom table: wp_supple_YourTableName
I’d like to know if the problem is on the database side or if it’s somewhere else. I’m really lost when it comes to this part. Your help is appreciated!
Byron
March 5th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Hi Arkantos,
That error message has come up a couple of times (the cannot redeclare error). Try deactivating the plugin and activating again. I don’t know whether the problem went away for people or if they gave up.
Does anyone have an idea why the plugin would get a “cannot redeclare” error on the main class when it is being installed?
March 5th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
About the encoding UTF-8, I checked the phpmyadmin, the table fields are set to utf8_general_ci, the display in phpmyadmin and front end, it displays Chinese correctly, but once after updating post it gives öäüõ then reload again it adds more codes which makes both phpmyadmin and frontend display wrongly. I have to try NOT to reload post in admin area and update the records in phpmyadmin to prevent this.
About multivalue, I also tried hours to make it work, is possible to post couple of screenshot of your tutorial on this to guide me? your form is so wonderful except this…
March 5th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Problem solved! I just updated all to the latest version of WP. Now the plugin is correctly activated and working.
March 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Something is not right. I’m trying to use a multiple value check box field. No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get the values to space or break.
for example, I’d have check boxes for red, white, blue. No matter what I try (those examples to follow) the published result is always redwhiteblue if all three are checked.
in HTML filtering, no matter what I check, all, none, formatting… after clicking save field, it always reverts to NONE.
for the values, I’ve tried
red, red
white, white
blue, blue
red, red \n
white, white \n
blue, blue \n
red, red (\n)
white, white (\n)
blue, blue (\n)
red, red
white, white
blue, blue
What can I do, or what am I do wrong, so that I can have the values separated?
March 7th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Thanks for working on this Byron!
I tried it with a multi-line text field and notice that no matter what settings are used, that the line breaks (or carriage returns/para breaks) get stripped out and everything shows up as just one line of text. Is there any way to fix this?
Steve
March 7th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Arkantos,
Excellent! Glad it’s working for you.
Narcie
I will get some screen shots for you. I really need to beef up the instructions for this plugin. I’m pretty sure I can get you what you’re looking for.
Olive
Hi! Thanks for trying SF. You control the display in your post through the shortcode or in the snips editor. I will get you an example tonight.
Steve
You may have found a bug there. Let me check it out tonight. I’ll need to play around with it…might require a new version.
Thanks to you all for helping me make this thing better. I actually have some really big plans for SF, we’ll see if I’m up to the task
Cheers!
Byron
March 7th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Olive, Narcie
I think that you both have the same question. Hopefully this will help.
Ok, there are some options around displaying values from a multi-value field. Basically, all you have to do is use a shortcode in your post like:
[supple field='my_multivalue_field' list='ol']
The ‘ol’ will render an ordered list. You can also use:
‘ul’ = unordered list
‘br’ = line break
‘, ‘ = separate by comma and a space
‘???’ = pretty much anything you put in between the quotes will be used as a separator. So the key is to add: list=’???’ to your shortcode. Right now, ol, ul, and br are the only separators that will turn into html tags. Everything else is just taken verbatim.
Here’s a screenshot of the write Post page where I’m including 2 multi-value fields (weblink and tag), using 2 different list styles:
Hope that helps. If not, send let me know what you’re trying. We’ll get to the bottom of it.
Byron
March 8th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Steve,
I’ve updated SF to 0.1.62 with a fix for the multi-line textbox issue. I hope I didn’t take it too far since SF now changes all new lines into br tags. Well see.
Let me know if you hit any other snags.
Byron
March 8th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Thanks Byron!
In my searching around I have also come across this plugin: “More Fields” which is in some ways similar, but not quite. Anyway it may be useful to have a look at it and see if there’s anything in there that can save you some work…
http://labs.dagensskiva.com/plugins/more-fields/
Steve
March 8th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Hi Steve,
Thanks for passing along the More-Fields. It looks like a very well done plugin. It may indeed shortcut the learning curve for me in some areas.
Cheers,
Byron
March 8th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Bryon,
Thank you so much for that quick tutorial for multi-value, it finally worked. I guess if someone knows how to use your multi-value, it becomes really powerful. The key is to put the seperator in a shortcode in the post rather than the Snipts part.
About the displaying Chinese Charater part, as you instructed me, in both WP Admin and phpmyadmin, they are both set in UTF-8, so Chinese just didn’t pass though your plugin output part.
So, I think this is wonderful plugin, and thank you again for making this one for our bloggers!
March 9th, 2009 at 7:53 am
about this UTF-8 problem, Im storing data to WP Custom Fields.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Excellent plugin!
Unfortunately it just does not work with UTF-8 characters as mentioned above…
I tried it with Greek and when I update the post, all fields with values in Greek become a bunch of symbols.
March 10th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Narcie, Sven, and Vasilis,
Sorry I don’t have a fix for the UTF-8 issue yet. I’ve been tied up with PhotoSmash, and quite frankly am procrastinating on this problem because I don’t have a clue as to where to start looking.
I have another issue or 2 with PS that need resolving so they’re eating up my plugin development time for a couple more days. This is churning away in the back of my mind. Sometimes the old subconscious works a miracle if I give it time, but it has to have something to work with, and in the case of UTF-8, I’m a blank slate.
I’ll keep you posted as things develop.
Meanwhile: does anybody have any pointers on why a plugin might display garbage with non-English characters when the database is set to UTF-8?
Any hints would be appreciated!
Byron
March 12th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Hello !
Whenever I have text fields that have setting “allow multiple entries” on, I get this kind of error in the write panel:
Warning: htmlentities() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in C:\wamp\www\mysite\wp-content\plugins\supple-forms\supple-write.php on line 384
I’ve tried “html-filtering” to “filter all” and “no filtering”, it seems that it doesn’t change anything. Also I’ve tried setting “numeric” on and off.
I’m using Wordpress 2.7.1. and I disabled all other plugins.
Jukka
March 12th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Hello again!
I’m creating html-snipplet, but whenever I add html to “List of values”-textbox in snippet editing page and save, html is filtered somehow and
becomes . Same thing if using ” instead of ‘.
And if I keep hitting save snip button, html does get filtered every time, and after hitting save for few times, it becomes like this: . What could be wrong ?
WP 2.7.1 and WP customfields (not custom table) in use.
Jukka
March 13th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Love the Plugin – thank you. I’d already put a post together a few weeks ago listing the “Best Of” WordPress CMS style plugins, but I added yours to the list.
http://www.badcat.com/journal/wordpress-as-a-cms.html
I especially like that you’ve give the user the choice of a custom DB entry or using WP’s own Custom Fields.
Nice work! Thanks again.
March 13th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Hi Kel,
Thanks for the press! Supple Forms is still in its infancy right now, but there’s a bit of power there if you get creative with it. The Snips builder gives you a lot of flexibility.
I have this grand vision for Supple Forms, but I really run the risk of biting off more than I can chew as you mentioned with the Flutter plugin. It really gets me going when thinking of the possibilities. I just need to get my PhotoSmash plugin to a point where I can devote some development cycles to SF
Cheers!
Byron
March 13th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
It would be amazing if one could enable certain fields to become tags.
March 13th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Hi Jukka,
It looks like you’re having 2 separate issues: 1) with the htmlentities error, 2) the snips editor is stripping your Html tags.
I noticed from the error message that you’re running that from a Windows machine. I wonder if there are some differences that I’m not allowing for that could be causing these issues?
What version of PHP and MySQL are your running?
I have used anchor/href, bold (b), and ol tags and they appear to be working.
What tags are you having problems with?
As for the Custom Fields versus Custom Tables, that shouldn’t matter if you are entering the html into the “List of Values” field. (I really need to rename that, BTW…it should be something “HTML Snippet”
).
Please let me know any additional info that you think might be helpful in trouble shooting. I don’t know where to start with this one.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Byron
March 13th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Hi Olive,
I’ll put the suggestion on the list
BB
March 13th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Hi Byron, again, thanks for this plugin.
I discovered that searching for words inserted using the custom fields doesn’t work. I tried adding “Search Everything” and “Search Unleashed” plugins, but it still doesn’t work.
Do you know of a solution?
March 13th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Hi Kathy,
You’re very welcome. I don’t know of anything that searches custom fields. I do plan to add some query capabilities to SF down the road. I don’t know what form that will take yet, but I’ll put a tickler on my list about search.
Byron
March 14th, 2009 at 12:53 am
[...] Supple Forms [...]
March 14th, 2009 at 8:28 am
@kathy I think one of the search plugins you mention should work if you’re using the standard database and not the custom one in Supple Forms. Can you confirm which db you’re using?
March 16th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Hey,
I would like to add a form to my posting called “Free Shipping” with two radio buttons, the choices being “Yes” or “No”.
Is there a way to use Supple Forms so that when “Yes” is selected, it displays a picture of a free shipping icon, but when no is checked, it displays nothing?
This could also be done with a single Checkbox as well. I could call it “free shipping” with a “Yes” checkbox if I want the icon to be displayed.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Hi Chuck,
Sorry, SF can’t show an image as the display label for items, but I love the idea. I’m adding to the list of requested features. Unfortunately, between Supple Forms and PhotoSmash, my list of requested features is getting incredibly long.
Byron
March 17th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I think a WYSIWYG editor for form fields is probably the most important development, because without it, the functionality is very limited.
After that, the ability to associate specific forms with specific post or page templates would be very powerful.
Thanks for the great plugin so far!
March 17th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Hi Patrick,
A WYSIWYG editor is a good idea…I’ve put it on the list. Your second suggestion is part of a major, major overhaul that I have planned.
Cheers!
Byron
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 pm
I found a little bug on your script
check out here:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1097/sumple.jpg
I add “Daftar Kerjasama LIPI” database and some fields there.
When I choose dropdown list with value nota kesepahaman the result on the post just a ,b>nota text.
and it happens on dropdown list and checkbox with value which separated with spaces
I try using (html code for space) but failed.
maybe a simple modification on your entry function to database fix this, cause when I watch on my database the value is nota
anyway, I love your plugin. Really
The multiple database capability and external menu (out from write new) would be a great thumb
good work!
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:52 am
Hi Adi,
Thanks for bringing that to light. I’ll see if I can get a fix out in the next couple of days.
Glad you’re liking the plugin. I think that a lot of people are starting to see the potential for this plugin (or one like it) to become something really useful in developing applications within WordPress.
Cheers,
Byron
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:01 am
Someone who can help me… i dont know very good how to use this plugin… can anyone help me or edit this plgin for me and i can pay for that! Tx. juampolo (at) gmail.com
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 am
Hi Juampi,
I may be able to help. I’ll send you an email.
Cheers,
Byron
April 10th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Hi,
Would it be possible to have a special text area that has an insert/upload box like in the image bellow. Something that uses the preexisting wordpress upload page.
http://imgur.com/IXCP5.png
Thank you,
Gabe
April 12th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Gabe,
Not at this time. Uploads are on the list, but it’s down the road, I’m afraid. Sorry,
BB
April 13th, 2009 at 4:24 am
[...] Supple Forms Supple Forms for WordPress offers two significant functions for your blog. You can build custom write panels for the WordPress Write Post page and easy insert form data and HTML snippets into your posts. Supple Forms lets you store your data in either WordPress Custom Fields or your own custom table that the plugin will create for you. So you can format and insert your data into pages and posts with shortcodes, and without tweaking templates. [...]
April 13th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I wouldn’t want you to do that. IMO, the default wordpress upload box is good enough.
Maybe you can incorporate some elements from the “Custom Field Images” plugin into your plugin like media buttons and the “insert CFI” button which allows you to copy the url of the image onto desired custom field.
I prefer your plugin because it give the user full control of the output and it easier for computer illiterate people(my father) to edit and change pages.
Thanks,
Gabriel
April 14th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
after checking the source of the plugin, it looks like it is javascript based. I’m gonna try to integrated into supple pages.If I get it to work, I’ll post the code here.
Gabriel
April 15th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Hi, sorry if this is a stupid question.
Is it possible to have more than one form? Cause at the moment it doesn’t look like it can and I reeeeeally need to be able to have more than one form! Please help!
Have been testing out flutter, but its got so many bugs and it displays funny with most of my crucial plugins! Plus I like the fact that supple forms makes it so easy to add the content with the html snips! There’s no way you could build in some of the features that flutter has?
Thanks!
Jarvis
April 15th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Hi Jarvis88,
Not at this time. Sorry.
I actually do have plans for a major overhaul to Supple Forms that will add a number of new features, including multiple forms. The bad part is that between Supple Forms and PhotoSmash, I’ve got a huge list of features to add.
Just sorry to have to report that it’s down the road.
BB
April 15th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Hey Gabriel,
Thanks for weighing in on uploads. And double thanks for dipping into the code to see if using WordPress standard links would work!!
One of the reasons I plan to add uploads is that I want to add the ability to use SF forms outside of the WordPress Write Post/Write Page pages (in other words, you would be able to include forms in Posts and Pages to collect info from users). In those cases, it would make sense to have uploads liberated from the standard WP upload functionality. The other reason is that I want to put some query capabilities in SF, so you could include uploads in queries.
Of course, all of this is…”down the road”. My plans for this thing are much bigger than the time I have available.
Any code that you have that might help would be much appreciated
Seriously!
Cheers,
Byron
April 20th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Bryon, I sure do need some assistance in tweaking a wp site. Are you available for hire and consultation by chance?
April 20th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Hi Charlie,
I may be able to help. Send me an email at byron @ whypad.com and let me know what you’re looking for.
Cheers,
Byron
April 21st, 2009 at 10:23 am
Hi Byron,
I discovered your plugin yesterday. I’m experimenting with it But found the following issue, as soon as I add a class in the HTML snippet box the following HTML () gets converted to this ().
I tried editing the wp_kses array in the “supple-write.php” page without any success.
Could you please assist me.
Thank You Kindly
April 21st, 2009 at 10:29 am
Hi Michael,
It appears that the comment system didn’t like it either, as all i see is (). Could you send it to me in an email and I’ll take a look. byron @ whypad.com
Byron
April 21st, 2009 at 10:57 am
Hi Byron,
I see my example code was “trimed” in my previous entry . let me then explain. a forward slash gets inserted before the quote / double quote’s in my class identifier.
Thats it
Thank You Kindly
May 1st, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Hi Byron,
You’ve really been doing some great work with this plugin, excellent job. Two things:
One is that for folks who are frustrated that custom meta doesn’t get returned from the standard wordpress search, use the search-unleashed plugin, it will allow you to specify which meta data to return as well. Works great.
Secondly, I’ve noticed that when someone edits an article with an existing meta-data value containing an apostrophe and updates the post another \ is added to the current \’ value. This can result in long trails of \\\\ if an article is edited more than once.
Not the end of the world, but certainly causing a few headaches.
Thanks much Byron.
Aris
May 1st, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Aris,
Michael was having the same problem with the back slashes. I have been completely unable to reproduce that behavior, and can find no reason for to be occurring. Do you have any ideas on what the problem is or how to fix it?
I worked with Michael offline for a bit, and he eventually came to the conclusion it was because Magic Quotes was turned off in his environment. I don’t know if turning Magic Quotes on fixed it for him or not. But even if it did, that’s not really a good solution. And my code basically does a stripslashes if Magic Quotes is on. That shouldn’t be affecting it if they’re off.
This is really a stumper. Any help from anyone would greatly be appreciated.
Byron
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:35 am
Hi Aris,
Turning on magic quotes solved the problem of backslashes \\\ . Using PHP 5
Thanks Guys.
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:59 am
Hi Byron. I’m so excited about this plugin. You have done some incredible work and I can see that you have much more up your sleeve.
Quick question:
Is there a way for me to make use of [other short codes] from other plugins. I tried to do this and unfortunately what I got was the text of the short codes….but not the functionality.
Any ideas?
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:46 am
Hi Michael,
I’m kind of glad that turning on magic quotes solved the problem. The only trouble is that I don’t know why it was a problem when magic quotes was turned off. It shouldn’t have been adding the slashes
At any rate, if anyone has ideas, I’d LOVE to hear them!
Cheers,
Byron
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 am
Hi Robert,
Thanks! I’ve got more plans than I have time!
Short codes are Plugin-specific. You could make your plugin use the same short codes as another plugin, and that can in fact be a problem some times. I’ve noticed some plugins use very generic short codes like [gallery] or [form], but I think they run the risk of colliding with other plugins.
I’ve tried to make Supple Forms and PhotoSmash plugins use short codes that are unlikely to be duplicated in other plugins so the plugins can coexist peacefully.
So, to answer your question, if you use shortcodes from other plugins, you have to have those plugins activated, or else it will just print out the short code as text.
Byron
May 5th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Hi Byron,
I’ve poked around a bit and the only thing I’ve noticed is this little doozy at line 174 in supple-write.php
} else{
if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){
$val = stripslashes($val);
}
There does not seem to be any other stipslashes done, which means anyone without magic quotes (like myself) get’s no slash stripping. I’m assuming that perhaps the slashes are being introduced by html_filter?
Does that seem like a possible trouble spot? Or have I just revealed myself to be far out of my depth with your plugin?
Aris
May 6th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Aris,
I bet you’re on to something. I’ll look into the html filter and see if it’s adding slashes. It may slash everything for everyone, and I’m just stripping slashes for those with Magic Quotes.
I’ll post an update as soon as I can.
Thanks for digging in!!!
Cheers,
Byron
May 7th, 2009 at 4:27 am
Hi, good works. It would be very useful the ability to create a group of combined select that show data from external tables…example:
-1st SELECT -> “Please Select State…” (select state, id from city_state)
-2nd SELECT ->”Please Select City…” (select city from city_state where idstate=$idstate)
May 7th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Thanks, Mephisto!
That’s a great suggestion. It’s on my list. I want to build into SF a complete query designer that will let you do what you’re asking, as well as display results based on your custom queries.
Unfortunately, I’ve been slammed with PhotoSmash and haven’t been able to get my development rolling with SF. It’s coming though.
BB
May 18th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Byron,
Thanks for taking the time to develop your plugin! Supple Forms is unique in it’s capability of creating a new table within the WP database… Could you give this php novice a simple example of code or a function (php–not shortcodes) needed to connect to and display values on a custom page from the database that Supple Forms creates?
Wish I could grant you more hours in the day–you sound like a busy guy! Thanks
May 24th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Byron,
Good plugin there…. But I have slight problem… whenever I enter new data into the custom field when writing new post and save the post ( or publish the post )… the the values inside the custom fields revert to default values or become empty…
have any idea what might be causing it?
May 28th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I’m having a problem setting up snips in your plugin. I know its because I’m not doing something right and it would probably take you 5 minutes to do it for me. Could I send you the html I’m trying to set up and you could tell me where I’m messing up?
Thanks,
Ian
May 29th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Hi Ian,
Sure, no problem. Email to me at byron @ whypad. com
Hopefully it will be an easy fix. Fingers crossed!
Byron
May 30th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I’m wondering if you could provide an easy way to access the fields/snips from templates? I was thinking something like:
get_supple_field(‘field_name’); //returns text of field
get_supple_field_by_value(‘field_name’); //returns value of field
Basically I am trying to display/hide content based on the value of certain fields and do some other logic. I know I can do my own DB queries but a simple interface would be good.
Thx.
May 31st, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Could this be used as a real estate plugin?
I´m looking for a good WP plugin to manage a real estate website, also need on for car rentals and classifieds.
I want to check this out but the video tutorials arent working.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:55 am
Thanks for the plugin – It works pretty well but I do have one small issue. I am trying to do a select box that has a label with a comma in it:
1, Treasure, The
2. Some other value
3, Department of Something, The
It is stripping the ‘, The’ at the end. Is there any way to allow commas in the field name?
June 17th, 2009 at 7:17 am
Glen,
I’ve fallen behind on Supple Forms comments…sorry.
Both of the items you’ve inquired (template tags and commas in lists) about are not possible in the current iteration of Supple Forms, but I will add to the list.
On the comma’s, I tried the Ascii code, but that didn’t work. I’ll be able to make it work in the next iteration, which unfortunately is a bit down the road as I’m trying very hard to get the big PhotoSmash upgrade out the door.
Byron
June 19th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Would like to ask for help!
I tried to add Supple Forms. Very pleased, easy to use. I use hunagrian language in my blog.
The latin2’s characters do not display properly. For example: ?sz, üzen,üget?.
The database UTF8 WP, WP 2.7.1 version.
Is there a solution? Thank you in advance!
June 19th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Neo,
Sorry. I haven’t figured out how to fix that yet, but I need to. This has been a problem for a few poeple. Unfortunately, I’m tied up with my other project at them moment and can’t get to this.
If anyone has any idea of how to fix this, I’d be very interested to know!
Byron
June 19th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Bennett,
Thank you for your quick answer. Possible to resolve the problem. The plugin is UTF8 encoded files changed, as well as all the files in the “htmlentities” are extracted. Thus, the characters appear correctly, but also tested. If you have a perfect solution, it will be welcome. This plugin is very good, good luck to continue.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Byron,
I think I have the solution. In the rows, where in the “htmlentities”, there should be improved and supplemented by the appropriate character set. For example:
htmlentities ($ variable, ENT_NOQUOTES, ‘UTF-8′).
I tried, I have works perfectly.
June 19th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Neo,
Thanks for diving into that! I will give it a try and see about getting it into official code.
That is a huge help!
Byron
June 20th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Is there anyway this can be used with pages instead of posts? This has the exact functionality I am looking for except I would rather it hook onto pages.
I would also LOVE to have this as a stand alone funtction in the admin area, not being attached to posts or pages but each entry having a unique ID and being able to call that entry on any page or post using a snipet. That would be wonderful! You could have an entry form in the admin area (not in pages or posts) and also have an edit form where you can select which entry you want to edit. Let me know if this is at all possible as I am trying to get something going with my project ASAP!
June 20th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
ok, I’m DUMB. I now see that it is available on pages, got ahead of myself
I would like the ability to turn off the “form” for posts and only have it on pages. I don’t want my authors adding these custom fields to posts.
My biggest request is still the stand alone functionality where you separate the entry form from pages/posts and put it into a new admin page for this plugin.
June 20th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Hi Chris,
The functionality you’re looking for isn’t in Supple Forms yet. Hopefully one day in the not so distant future.
If you can’t find anything else, you might take a look at my other plugin, PhotoSmash. I’ve been pouring all my time into it, and I think it might do what you’re wanting. It does the custom form and custom fields thing, and custom layouts, and does it in such a way that it can be related to a post or independent.
The only trick would be that it doesn’t have the form in the Admin yet, but you could create a page with the form on it and not publish it, and add your data in the Preview mode. Or you could make it Private so only you could access.
These functions are only available in the Development version 0.2.991. It’s available on Wordpress.org/extend, but it’s not the official release yet. I’m hoping to release it as 0.3 next week.
So…basically, if you can’t find anything else out there, you might try PhotoSmash version 0.2991 or higher.
BB
June 21st, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I am having issues with the dropdowns. I have created the drop down list but when in the post area and I select one of the drop downs, it does not save the value. It created the entry for metakey in postmeta for the correct page but is not saving the value. Any idea what I may be doing wrong or any ideas how I can get this fixed?
Thanks
June 21st, 2009 at 7:45 pm
lol, once again, getting ahead of myself. I had named the field the same name as a different custom field and it seemed to have been messing up. I renamed it and it worked great!
June 21st, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Chris,
That makes me so happy! I was like: “Oh crud! What could this possibly be?” I’ve seen so many different reasons that things might not work, you just never know what will crop up next.
Cheers,
Byron
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Do you know of a quick hack that would allow a conditional statement to be put in place for the showing of the form. Example, ONLY show this form ini the page editor for pages that have XXXX as its parent page? I am using the form for a special purpose that only applies to a certain set of pages that are sub pages of one category. This would help minimize confusion immensely to the people helping me build the pages.
I’m probably stretching the power of wordpress here but it’s worth a shot
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Hi Chris,
You’re not stretching WordPress, but you are stretching the current version of Supple Forms. SF can’t do that yet.
The Flutter plugin may be able to do what you’re asking. They’ve come a long way over the last few months in getting the kinks straightened out.
BB
July 4th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Hi Byron,
Firstly hope you enjoy your 4th July…
Is there a way of implementing a hidden field, I’m thinking of adding a user id to each post. As I need to execute a custom mySQL query.
I see you were thinking of this function, as theres some “leftover” code in the scripts.[case 6].
Thank You
July 6th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Hi Michael,
It was a good 4th!
Yes…I was planning to do a hidden. It’s not in there now. It will be when I can get to it.
Byron
July 6th, 2009 at 12:38 am
Hi Byron,
I was able to sort the hidden field – Thank You.
I needed to add ($myvalue= $current_user->user_login) into the database, as I needed to retrieve info. with custom queries. I simply completed what I think you intend doing.
I won’t post the update (hack) here as it’s very specific to my use. I now know why you’re holding back on this feature as it can create many problems for the uninitiated, like myself
Keep Well
July 16th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Hi, I was wondering if anyone would help me.
I am using Supple Forms and wish to hide a field when no value is inputed – i am trying to use an if statement in the HTML snips editor with no luck
Is there anyway to do this?
Thanks
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:39 am
I have the same issue as Olive:
in HTML filtering, no matter what I check, all, none, formatting… after clicking save field, it always reverts to NONE.
Anybody can help?
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 am
@Brockbarn,
Sorry, but there is no way to do conditionals at this time. That is an excellent idea for future versions, though.
@wzqhzsc,
When you select html filtering, it’s not doing any filtering at all?
I am very sorry that I can’t dive into these items very deeply at the moment as I’m completely tied up with PhotoSmash at the moment. I do have big plans for Supple Forms, but PhotoSmash has come in and taken over my time
Byron
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:24 am
> @wzqhzsc,
> When you select html filtering, it’s not doing any filtering at all?
The situation is that no matter what I check, it always filters out the hyperlink. For example, I input My Site. It always only has ‘My site’ left without hyperlink after publishing.
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Amazing plugin Byron. It does what I need. One thing: Can I modify it to also collect the author_id? How can I do that? Thanks.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Great Plugin!
Was wondering if you have considered, or if it is possible, adding a file upload box to the list of field options.
Thanks!
July 30th, 2009 at 7:40 am
@Paul,
I’m glad you like SF!!
The Author ID is being captured in the Custom table in the field supple_created_by and supple_updated_by (for subsequent updates). You might try one of those.
@Jorge,
Thanks!
The file upload is on the list.
Byron
July 30th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Byron,
Thanks. I am really probably just missing it so I hate to ask again but I have looked through all of the database tables in my WP and have not found the fields supple_created_by or supple_updated_by. I would really like to use these as filters to chart the data collected in my membership site. Which table can these be found in? wp_sppl_fields, wp_sppl_forms, wp_sppl_lookup, wp_sppl_snips or wp_sppl_pdu
Thanks for your help.
Paul
July 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Paul,
This is only being captured if you’re using the Custom Table feature, in which case the table will be: wp_supple_{custom table name}
Note that the custom table uses prefix: wp_supple_ while other tables use wp_sppl
Hope that helps.
Byron
July 30th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Thanks for writing so quickly.
I double checked and I am using the custom table feature which gives me the table wp_supple_pdu. In that table are the fields I created and also these three: id post_id supple_status but there are no others. supple_created_by and supple_updated_by are not there. Now, I did look and found that when I created the table I had chosen to “Hide WP custom fields” and also chose “Custom Table” and gave the table the name “PDU.” So I went back and unselected the hide feature, saved the form and then regenerated the table. The two fields still do not show up.
I am running WP 8.2.1 and the latest Supple Forms. Its a really great plugin.
What am I missing?
July 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Paul,
Sorry!!! I was looking at my development version of SF, which I can’t put out there for you because I don’t know what state it’s in.
You’re right…those fields are not in the official release.
I’m going to have to take a break from PhotoSmash and get Supple Forms caught up.
Sorry.
BB
July 30th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Thanks again for your quick reply.
The additions of those fields would be really helpful to me so I would love it if you would take the break. I’ve looked at PhotoSmash and it is pretty cool.
If adding the fields is not too complicated I’d be happy to try it myself…with a little help of course.
Whatever you can do. Thanks for all your hard work.
Paul
August 7th, 2009 at 9:24 am
This seems to be a great plugin, and is exactly what I need!
I’ve created a form and all fields and made a few posts with those fields filled in.
But when I created a SUPPLE SNIP with HTML code and place it in a post, the HTML portion transfers over, but the fields are BLANK!
ie: If my supple snip code is: I live in [my_city].
the resulting html is: I live in .
Any idea why this is happening?
August 8th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Is there a way to add javascript (to do a calculation) in supple forms? I have a series of textboxes where someone will enter their age, weight (either in lbs or kgs decided by a radio button), gender (m/f decided by radio button), average heart rate, and duration in hours and minutes. This will all be used to calculate calories burned for a workout. How can I add a snip to accomplish this?
August 10th, 2009 at 7:56 am
@Pete,
I’m not sure why that isn’t working. The things to check are: 1) do the field names match exactly the field names in your list of custom fields: [my_field]; 2) do you have data for the post you’re looking at; 3) are you calling the right snip: [supple snip='my_snip']
I know those are basic, and you’ve probably got them right, but I honestly can’t think of why else it might not be working…I’ll keep thinking.
@Pat,
You can’t add that code through Supple Forms at this time, but you might be able to include a JavaScript file through your theme or through a plugin you write yourself. If you can hook into the fields through jQuery, it should work.
BB
August 12th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
What are the template tags? Is there a list of them anywhere?
August 12th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Jeromy,
Sorry…no template tags at this point. It’s all done through the shortcode in the body of the posts and pages.
BB
August 13th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
oh really? #16 above under usage says: 16. Template Tags. Can you get them through the custom field meta?
August 13th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Jeromy,
Yeah…sorry. 15 & 16 were supposed to be in the “On the Drawing Board” section. Thanks for bringing to my attention…i’ve moved to proper location.
If you’re using the WordPress Custom Fields option, you can access the Supple Forms Custom Fields through the Custom Field Meta, but if you’re not, you’d need to access directly through the $suppleForms object variable that gets created for the plugin.
If you use: $my_variable = $suppleForms->getPostData($post->ID, $fields)
(where $fields is an array of the fields you want) you’ll get back an array of the fields for a post.
That may work for you. I haven’t tried this, so I don’t know if it works…I’m not sure if you’d need to do a: global $suppleForms
in your template or not.
Here’s the header for the function that I’m referencing there. It’s in supple-forms.php around line 552.
/**
* Retrieve form and custom field data for a Post
*
* @param int $post_id The post ID
* @return $data – an associative array with field names as keys
*
* Multiple value fields with have their values as an array
*/
function getPostData($post_id, $fields)
August 15th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Bryon,
I want to embed a supple form into a theme so that I do not need to enter the short code each time I wish to create a new post.
How can I embed the short code into my Wordpress theme?
Cheers,
August 16th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Darcy,
There are no template tags at this point, but check out the reply to Jeromy (immediately above) for an experimental method…you would need to know some PHP to accomplish this at this point. Sorry,
BB
August 16th, 2009 at 6:33 am
You may be glad to know I figured out an alternative, download a plugin called FT Signature Manager, and you can embed the short code into the signature which will give you the option per post (only it seems) to your “signature” or not!
Cheers
August 16th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
@Darcy,
Cool! Glad you’re in business!
BB
August 18th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Does the plugin render images? I pretty much need the user to be able to select from a dropdown list of images, and I currently can’t find a way. Any suggestions at all would be incredibly wonderful.
August 19th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Byron,
This is great work. I know PhotoSmash is taking up your time (I know how that is). I wouldn’t mind helping on the post/page/category-specific forms, but it sounds like you’ve done some major rewriting of the code.
Would it be worth it take a shot at an inelegant solution based on the existing code?
I’m thinking it’s gotta be possible to at least “hide” the forms if it’s a page instead of a post. Those are distinct WP templates that could be altered – I assume???
Let us know the best way to proceed. This would killer functionality, especially in combo with Role Scoper plugin.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Sara,
I tried that, but wasn’t able to get it to render the images…I’m sure it could be done, I just wasn’t able to get it going.
BB
August 19th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Thanks Troy!
I had made a little headway with the BIG move for SF, but not enough. So, if you wanted to take a shot at hiding the forms based on the existing code, it probably wouldn’t be totally wasted.
The architecture of PhotoSmash is a lot closer to where I was going with Supple Forms than the current SF code. In fact, PhotoSmash does a lot of what SF does, except for the Write Post/Write Page forms, and it also is limited to a single Custom Table, and it doesn’t have an option for WP Custom Fields. But you can build custom forms/fields for PhotoSmash with layouts, etc.
The good news for Supple Forms is that I’ve learned a LOT with PhotoSmash, so it should benefit from experience when I get back to it.
I’d be glad to consider any modifications you make. I’d be very glad to have some contributors on this project!
Byron
August 25th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Hi Byron,
many thanks for this great plugin
I am posting in French and I have the same UF-8 issue than a few users.
I’seen all the replies and Neo’s one may be a solution :
I refer to the Neo’s reply (june, 19)
“Byron,
I think I have the solution. In the rows, where in the “htmlentities”, there should be improved and supplemented by the appropriate character set. For example:
htmlentities ($ variable, ENT_NOQUOTES, ‘UTF-8?).
I tried, I have works perfectly.”
The problem is I don’t understand what it means and how to do …
can you help me with a more explicite explanation ?
thanks in advance, Mathilde
August 25th, 2009 at 6:00 am
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August 25th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Hi Mathilde,
You’re welcome!
I will try to get this code into an updated version of SF in the near future. Hopefully this will help several people!
Cheers,
Byron
August 25th, 2009 at 8:04 am
That is great news Byron. Your work is really amazing and the update on SF will be really great. Thanks!
August 25th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Thanks, read U soon
August 26th, 2009 at 9:41 am
how do I “generate” my fields? I get an error saving my posts with the shortcode and all my fields on the snip editor page say “not generated” (I’m using WP Custom fields):
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY meta_id' at line 1]
SELECT * FROM 417766_postmeta WHERE post_id = 6 AND meta_key IN ORDER BY meta_id
September 5th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Hey Bryon, any thoughts on my question above?
September 6th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I deactivated all the plugins on the site and the mysql error went away, but I still don’t get anything displayed when showing my snip in a page. I’m using brackets and I’ve created a post and filled out the supple form info, but when I go to the page, nothing shows
September 6th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
ahh, found another error in my logs that I missed just now:
WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ORDER BY meta_id’ at line 1 for query SELECT * FROM 417766_postmeta WHERE post_id = 6 AND meta_key IN ORDER BY meta_id made by require, require_once, include, include, the_content_limit, apply_filters, call_user_func_array, do_shortcode, preg_replace_callback, do_shortcode_tag, call_user_func, SuppleForms->shortCode, SuppleForms->showSnip, SuppleForms->getPostData
September 6th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
a little more info (sorry to spam the board!) – more testing revealed these 2 errors:
PHP Notice: Undefined variable: cf in /web/content/wp-content/plugins/supple-forms/supple-forms.php on line 630
PHP Notice: Undefined variable: listformats in m/web/content/wp-content/plugins/supple-forms/supple-forms.php on line 479
September 9th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Jeromy,
Sorry I haven’t gotten back to you…been out of town. I’ll work through your messages tonight!
BB
September 9th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Hi Byron,
Great plugin. Already have it running and am very impressed. Its going to be very useful for me, as its going to make my clients life 100x easier not having to touch any html.
But is there a way to create a button in the form that auto inserts the shortcode? I dont want the shortcode to be automatically entered, but i would like it easier for the clients to use than adding the shortcode manually.
Thanks in advance.
-m
September 9th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Michael,
There isn’t anything in the plugin that does this right now. It would be possible to create a button for TinyMCE to insert the Short Code, but it would be down the road for me to do at this point.
BB
September 9th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Hi Jeromy,
What versions of MySQL and PHP are you using? Not sure that this is the problem, but could be.
Byron
September 9th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
the latest stable versions of each – I actually switch to the flutter plugin which seems to work for me – sorry man! Great plugin either way, maybe I was just missing something
September 9th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
No problem…glad you’re up and running.
BB
October 20th, 2009 at 7:29 am
hi Byron
love this plugin! just what i was looking for. but can’t really use it yet. looking forward to these features:
-multiple forms, with a form pick-list on the page/post editor
-a file-path picker with a browse-button and upload button (for visitor downloads)
-integration of WP’s media uploader/library (to insert pictures/videos)
-ability to put your tags into the page/post template of the theme (does this work already?)
-integration with one of the many page/post template pickers, so multiple supple forms would be associated with multiple page/post templates
hmm, that’s a start. thanks!
~johny
November 13th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Hi! Thanks for plugin. All is working perfectly. But I have one problem. I am using Russian language on my site and all snippets and fields values are showing right on the front-end. but in back-end there is problem with encoding. All fields values and al russian symbols in html snippets editor are in wrong encoding.
Any suggestions?
November 16th, 2009 at 8:49 am
it would be great if you can add upload file functionality, so that we can upload at least one pic to the record.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Hi,
The plugin looks very interesting, so I downloaded it and installed it according to the instructions. Everything seems to work: I can create different fields; I can see the fields in the add new/edit post form and I can write in them; through phpmyadmin I see that whatever I wrote is correctly inserted in the database; moreover, I also see the contents of the fields through the Supple Database Viewer page. Also, I can create and save the HTML snippet. However, if I use [supple snip='my_snip'] in a post nothing happens (I have a white page), and at the bottom of the page I have the following message:
WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ORDER BY meta_id’ at line 1 for query SELECT * FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id = 755 AND meta_key IN ORDER BY meta_id made by require, require_once, include, bfa_center_content, eval, bfa_post_bodycopy, the_content, apply_filters, call_user_func_array, do_shortcode, preg_replace_callback, do_shortcode_tag, call_user_func, SuppleForms->shortCode, SuppleForms->showSnip, SuppleForms->getPostData
755 id the post id with [supple snip='my_snip'].
Any idea on what’s going on? did I do something wrong during the installation? (I also tried to uninstall and reinstall the plugin, but nothing changed)? is there a conflict with some other plugin?
thanks
Joe
November 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Joe,
I take it that you’re not using the custom table option…I’ll need to poke around.
Can you post your snip?
BB
November 16th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Johny, Felix,
I’m not sure where development of the Flutter plugin for WP is right now, but I think they’ve got many of those features. It’s going to be a while before I can get those added
Max,
Do you have any experience in how to get the encoding right? I’d like to add in the proper code, but am a bit lost with it.
Byron
November 17th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Hi Byron,
I am using a custom table called Pubblicazioni. I can see it in the database and it contains the data I wrote.
here is the snip. If I add some text in between the fields I can see the text when I use [supple snip='my_snip'] in a post, but I don’t see the content of the fields.
[Autore_pub]
[Titolo_pub]
[Titolo_Libro_o_Rivista]
[Editor_pub]
[Luogo_pub]
[Casa_Editrice_pub]
[Categoria_pub]
[Anno_pub]
[Pagine_pub]
one thing I noticed when I activated again the plugin is the following message for a couple of seconds:
Wordpress database error Table ‘Sql266420_1.sppl_forms’ doesn’t exist for quesry SELECT * FROM sppl_forms WHERE form_id=1 made by activate_plugin, include, SuppleForms->SuppleForms, SuppleFOrms->getFormSettings WordPress database error Multiple primary key defined for ALTER TABLE wp_sppl_lookup ADD PRIMARY KEY (id) made by activate_plugin, do_action, call_user_func_array, SuppleForms->init, SuppleFormsInit->SuppleFormsInit, dbDelta WordPress database error Multiple primary key defined for query ALTER TABLE wp_sppl_snips ADD PRIMARY KEY (snip_id) made by activate_plugin, do_action, call_user_func_array, SuppleForms->init, SuppleFormsInit->SuppleFormsInit, dbDelta
November 18th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Hi,
since I really like this plugin, and I would like to use it in my blog, I tried to understand why it’s not working. So, I completely uninstalled the plugin, deleted the supple tables from the database and reinstalled the plugin. this time I don’t have any error message, so I think that the problem was due to the activation/deactivation/reactivation of the plugin.
However, even though I no longer have the above error and everything seems to work fine, I’m still unable to see the content of the different fields in my posts/pages. What do I do wrong? Is there anything I should check in the php code so that I can get the plugin to work?
thanks
Joe
November 24th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
[quote]it would be great if you can add upload file functionality, so that we can upload at least one pic to the record.[/quote]
I second it..
November 27th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Good plugin!! but can you adding captcha?
November 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
ah sorry, Its a plugin for administrator. then can you make a plugin like this but that for users?
I want make a page that user can make post to my site.
thanks you!
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:15 am
ShareKnow, I’m not sure where development of the Flutter plugin for WP is right now, but I think they’ve got many of those features. It’s going to be a while before I can get those added.
satsuke, yeah…sorry, it’s for Admins right now. You might want to check out my PhotoSmash plugin that lets your users upload images, you can also add custom fields and create custom forms that do not have a file upload field. I do have a companion plugin to PhotoSmash called PhotoSmash Extend that will create a new post when a user uploads. It uses the custom layout feature of PhotoSmash to let you design what the post should look like and where to put all of the field information. PhotoSmash is free, but I’m charging $25 for PhotoSmash Extend. If you want to try it, load up PhotoSmash first and make sure it works on your system/theme properly and then send me an email for PhotoSmash Extend and I’ll get you set up.
Cheers to all!
Byron
BB
December 28th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Hi, Byron
Thanks for that plugin, it might be very useful for me if it’ll work
I’ve got 0.1.62 version on my WP 2.9. Everything seems OK, all DB fields created and filled properly (both for plugin and post), I can see HTML content of snip in my post, but there no fields content. I thought it’s because of cyrillic characters in field’s label, but changing it gave no fix. Looks like plugin “can’t see” existing data in post’s meta.
Any ideas please?
Regards, Moor
December 28th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Hi Moor,
I know the plugin has had problems with non-English languages in other areas, but not sure if this would be one. It would seem that if you’re using the same field names, the pre-existing data would work.
I’m afraid I’ve been away from this plugin for so long I don’t have any suggestions on how to fix. Sorry.
If it doesn’t work with new posts and new data, it’s probably an encoding issue. If Supple Forms doesn’t work out, you might look at GravityForms or Flutter. Gravity has a fee, but might work for you.
Sorry I wasn’t much help,
Byron
January 19th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Hi Byron,
Thanks for the plug in. Had a quick question. I see that you have the ability to execute php on the drawing board, but was wondering if you could lend me any suggestions in the mean time.
Im trying to use supple forms to generate different shortcodes for the NextGen Gallery on template pages. This way, the client can make a new page for each gallery. Their shortcode I’d be using is [imagebrowser id=1'], with the id changing in the supple form.
In order to get shortcodes to work though in template pages, i need to use
So when I use that script for the Supple Form Shortcode, I am left with just the supple form results, that also need to be run through that same script (for the NextGen Gallery).
Do you have any suggestions for me?
Thanks so much in advance for the help.
Best,
-m
February 5th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Hi, and thanks for a good plugin for wordpress. I am just wondering, is there any trick I can use to let all my post include the snip on top or something? So I don´t need to paste the code for each post?
It would help a lot.
Sorry my bad english..
February 6th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Michael,
I’m not sure how that would work…sorry. If you want to execute a shortcode in a template page, you need to add PHP like: < ?php echo do_shortcode('[imagebrowser id=1]'); ?>
So, if you can figure out that ID # in PHP, you could make it:
< ?php echo do_shortcode('[imagebrowser id=' . $the_id . ']'); ?>
Not sure if that helps, but it’s all I’ve got at the moment.
As for Supple Forms, I’m recommending people either use Gravity Forms, Flutter, or PhotoSmash depending on what you need to do. Each of these plugins does something slightly different, but each does them well.
BB
February 6th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Bru,
The only way to do that at the moment would be to put some PHP in your template page…something like:
< ?php echo do_shortcode("[supple snip='address_box']"); ?>
Nothing in SF will add automatically.
BB
February 6th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Thanks a lot, that did the trick. I love this plugin:-) Keep up the good work.
February 13th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Love the plugin! I’m building a site for some less-than-technical folks, and this will be a godsend.
I’ve run into the problem with the quotes getting the backslashes added. Didn’t see a fix for that yet.
Also, I want to be able to call my snip inside the shortcode of another plugin. For example (madeup):
[flickrslideshow set_id="[supple snip='my_flickr_set']” border=”0″]
The problem is that the flickrslideshow shortcode is ‘closing’ at the first right-bracket.
Any suggestions?
February 13th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Bru,
Thanks!
Ghalt,
Thanks! On your shortcode issue, you might leave the brackets out of the flickrslideshow shortcode and add them in your code if you’re calling the shortcode manually with a do_shortcode…
do_shortcode(‘[' . $set_id . ']‘);
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:01 pm
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March 1st, 2010 at 4:34 am
for template tag you can use like ordinay custom field retrival.
ID, ‘room_price’, true); ?>
—–room_price is my database filed name.
i think this will help
March 1st, 2010 at 4:35 am
$room_price = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘room_price’, true);
echo $room_price;
March 9th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Hi Byron. Just wondering, is there any way to sort post by date field in supple form? I use custom table.
Brgds. Stian