Post from a form

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I am looking for the ability to post a message from a form, which I see Formidable Pro can do.  However, I need to be able to post without the user being logged in, but I still need to authenticate the user.

So, in my form I’d have a field for Username/Email address.  And a field for Password. Both would need to be filled out every time the form is used.  When the user submits the form, the Username/EmailAddress and Password should be authenticated and if valid, the post is made.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

The authentication is not built in. You can register users with a form, and you can require users to be logged in to see a form. But allowing only non-logged in users who have accounts to post would require custom code.

Okay, so how easy is it to attach Javascript handlers to each element in a form?  And how easy is it to submit the form to my own code rather than the Formidable handler?

Also, if I might make a suggestion...  From the looks of it, your product is definitely worth the price, if not a bit underpriced.  :)  However, it would be easier to purchase if the $47 version supported 2 web sites and not just 1.  For a lot of us who want to buy the cheaper version to evaluate, we'd like to install it on both our main web site and a sandbox site.

With your money back guarantee, I'd buy it right now and start playing with it rather  than inundate you with a bunch of pre-sales questions if I could install it on 2 sites. But since I can only install it on my main site where I'd have to do the development, I have to ask a bunch of questions first.

The single-site license allows you to install on a local development site, a dev site, and a production site. So if you are installing pro on the same site in different locations, you are okay...

Using the "customize HTML" tab on the form settings page, it is fairly easy to attach JS handlers to the various elements in your form. and depending on what you have in mind for submitting the form to your own code, we do have some hooks that may allow for this: http://formidablepro.com/knowledgebase/action-hooks/frm_submit_button_action/

Thanks Steve!

One last question and then I think I'll go ahead and buy it...

When you add a upload form object, can you specify the valid file type(s) and folder for storing the upload?

I need the ability for reports to file audio stories from the field and the audio files have to go into a specific folder for the code to work.

Also, I need the ability for visitors to upload images from events and select which category the images belong to which then determines which folder they are uploaded to.

Yes, you can limit the file types, and you have a little control over the upload location (see http://formidablepro.com/knowledgebase/using-file-upload-fields/).

Fantastic, thank you so much for your time. I very much appreciate it.

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