[horde] newb -- questions regarding ulaform

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Uttiya Chowdhury <chowdhury_uttiya at yahoo.com>:

>> This sound a little bit too complicated for me. What is the
>> reason to send a form to another form? If you only need to
>> perform certain calculations with data, you can always can
>> use a database level triggers for this.
>
> Actually, there is only one form -- the ulaform form. Now, there are  
> two actions that ulaform supports after the submit button is pressed  
> in the form:
> * Send the data to somebody by e-mail (code in ulaform sends the mail)
> * Put the data in a table (code in ulaform does the insert statement)
>
> I want another action
> * the posted data directly goes to a different php file (ulaform  
> code doesn't see the data at all)
>
> This php file is specified as form action during defining the form.
>
> The reason I need this is actually because I want a form that is not  
> an interface to a database table. Here is a (simplistic) example of  
> an app that I am trying to make: a web program to convert a length  
> in inch to a length in mm (to make a very simple example). I could  
> probably do it through database trigger as well, but I don't want my  
> data to go in some database in the first place.
>
> The way I am thinking is, in ulaform, we will define inputs and  
> specify the php handler that will receive the post/get data. Then we  
> will run the form. When the submit button is pressed, the php  
> handler will get the data, do some calculation and generate some  
> html text, ulaform will show the html text in it's window.

That's trivial. Just make the "action" property of the generated form  
configurable. Patches are welcome.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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