WebDev3000 » Forms http://www.webdev3000.com web design, freebies and more Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:17:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 LightForm http://www.webdev3000.com/lightform/ http://www.webdev3000.com/lightform/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:45:34 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=195 Keeping the bond between you and your readers/clients alive is the key to success when talking about Web-based businesses, but that’s only the second part of it. Even harder is to create that close relationship I mentioned above, and while I can’t really help you with that one, I am sure that a contact form can help you keeping it all alive… … despite the fact we’re talking about a piece of code that seems to have reached the end of [...]]]> Keeping the bond between you and your readers/clients alive is the key to success when talking about Web-based businesses, but that’s only the second part of it. Even harder is to create that close relationship I mentioned above, and while I can’t really help you with that one, I am sure that a contact form can help you keeping it all alive…
Light Form
… despite the fact we’re talking about a piece of code that seems to have reached the end of its days, unfortunately. Well, the good part is that LightForm is still a very useful piece of code, and so I hope it won’t fall into oblivion anytime soon.

LightForm is a free Ajax/PHP contact form that brings together FormCheck 1.2(MIT license) for the validation parts, and NiceForms(no specific licensing terms) to style text areas and fields. Since it even includes a basic spam protection method, I think it should come in handy for a lot of people, but the problem is that, as I said, LightForm reached its final version, and no future releases will arrive. Even more, any kind of support from its programmer is also out of question…

… so if you can live with all the bad things above, you should give LightForm a try. To me, it really looks like a contact form script worth trying, especially since it’s free and has spam protection, the two thing I can’t live without when it comes to contact forms. Oh, yeah, the additional code coming with the components mentioned above is covered by the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution v2.5 license!

Compatibility: as long as your visitors are using a JavaScript-capable browser, everything should be fine, so adding a warning about script blockers in your contact page could be a good idea (demo available here)

]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/lightform/feed/ 0 AJAX Hotel Reservation Form http://www.webdev3000.com/ajax-hotel-reservation-form/ http://www.webdev3000.com/ajax-hotel-reservation-form/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:02:58 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=99 When I think about hotel reservation forms, I suppose such things can’t be available as free source code, since we’re not talking about the next door bakery here – hotels should have enough money to put into some expensive website, right? Well… I guess the Internet almost managed to prove me wrong once again, since AJAX Hotel Reservation Form is exactly what I wasn’t exactly hoping to see – an excellent piece of (almost) free source code for those working [...]]]> When I think about hotel reservation forms, I suppose such things can’t be available as free source code, since we’re not talking about the next door bakery here – hotels should have enough money to put into some expensive website, right? Well… I guess the Internet almost managed to prove me wrong once again, since AJAX Hotel Reservation Form is exactly what I wasn’t exactly hoping to see – an excellent piece of (almost) free source code for those working on any kind of Web project involving hotel reservations!
AJAX Hotel Reservation Form
Last week, the second major revision of this script arrived, providing a wide array of features, including the ability to use skins (12 available for now, probably more to come in the future). Unfortunately, this isn’t as good as expected, because there’s a price that comes with all those 12 skins…

… so let me tell you the truth about the price – to get the whole set of skins, you’ll have to purchase the full version of Hotel Reservation Form, and that will make your pockets $50 lighter.

On the other hand, the Lite version comes with 3 skins, and also displays a trial message, but for small sites on a very tight budget… I don’t think this can be that bad, don’t you think?

At last, a few words about requirements – basically, this needs any kind of PHP capable Web server (Apache, for example), and while it has quite a few dependencies (ButtonReplacement.JS, Web 2.0 AJAX Loading Panel, jquery-1.3.2.js or jquery-1.3.2.min.js, as well as a few others), they are all included in the distribution file.

Compatibility: according to the official product page (see link in the first paragraph), Hotel Reservation Form works with Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Mozilla FireFox 2/3, Opera 9/10 Beta, Google Chrome 1, Safari 3/4 Beta (I checked and it also works with Google Chrome 2, so probably even less popular browsers will work great with it)

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