Master Form V4

OVERVIEW

Master Form V4 has become sophisticated software over the years and is capable of a variety of functions beyond the usual contact form.

In addition to it's ability to handle a wide variety of projects, it has anti-hijacking code built-in plus auto-submission protection against spammers spamming you with your own forms.

Other built-in protections include the ability to specify your preferences —

Block IP Addresses of people who try to misuse your forms.

Ban Words and Phrases you consider inappropriate or commonly used when scamming from ever being transmited by your forms.

Maximum Data Size can be defined if you wish to limit the amount of information that may be submitted, including size of file uploads.

Master Form V4 features available from the control panel

Listing of locations of web page forms that use your installation of Master Form V4
One-click automatic Master Form V4 updates
Temporary download links management (requires plug-in)
Sequential numbering setup for form submissions
Database Module choice for your installation

You may also specify your preferred spellings for date-related placeholder results, change your password, log off, and find quick links to tech support.

Project Management

The flexibility allowing Master Form V4 to manage projects is due, generally, to the use of "Hidden Fields" and "Templates" with "Placeholders".

Note: If this is your first time using Master Form V4, click here to download a ZIP file of examples called "basicexampleset.zip," which includes the "The Inner Workings of Master Form V4" document with set of example files.

Hidden Fields

You give directions to Master Form V4 with Hidden Fields in the web page form. These hidden fields provide your software with directions such as

where to find the templates you want to use,

what fields to require to be filled

and under what circumstances is should be required,

how to manage information collected.

Templates

You will create Templates for Master Form V4 to use when formatting

the emails it send,

the databases it keeps,

the personalized thank you page,

or each subsequent page in a multi-page form.

You design each template to look as you wish and then add placeholders wherever you want Master Form V4 to insert the data collected from the form.

Placeholders

Placeholders can be any form field name, including hidden field names if you wish.

In addition, special placeholders can be used for current date, current time, custom error message, self/user identifying information, and uploaded file handling.

Read about using Placeholders in the users manual.

[NOTE: Links to the users manual assume the user's manual file Master-Form-V4-Manual.html is in the same directory as this Master-Form-V4-Overview.html file.]

Special Functions

Master Form V4 uses Hidden Fields and/or Special Placeholders and Templates to perform special functions. These include...

Write or append to a file on the server. Read more at Database Files

Check the formatting of any email fields in your form. See emailfields

Form fields can be required to be filled, or empty, under certain conditions you specify. See conditionalrequired , emptyrequired , requiredfields , selectionmaximum and selectionminimum

All hidden fields can be kept secret in a file not accessible by web browser. See hidden

Put the content of a form field or fields into paragraph <p></p> tags on the web page that is to be displayed next (the web page specified with the flowto hidden field). See Paragraphize

Submit the content of form fields to other form handling scripts located on the Internet. See submitget and submitpost

Control the type, size and location of any file uploads to your server that you permit. See uploadedfilesaveinfo

Designate any key you wish for sequential numbering of form submissions. See use_numbering_key

Master Form V4 can extract any email addresses it finds in a file that you designate with the Special Placeholder EMAILS FileName.

It will write a file with the results of a form submission in a format that can be syndicated with JavaScript to web pages or even other web sites. See the description of JSfields Hidden Field.

And Master Form V4 has the ability to display custom error pages.

This has been a general overview of your Master Form V4 software.

Careful reading of the Master Form V4 Manual and the information in the Master Form V4 Control Panel will make using your software easy and efficient.