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Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook

By : Vernon Denny
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Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook

By: Vernon Denny

Overview of this book

<p>The Drupal Content Management System puts everyone in charge of their own internet destiny. Webform takes this power a step further by ensuring that you are never more than just a few mouse-clicks away from fully functional information-gathering forms. From simple contact forms to advanced web applications, Webform provides a solid tool set for both the novice and the expert.<br /><br /><em>Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook</em> gives you everything you need to achieve in minutes what previously cost hours in development and testing. Practical demonstrations of every facet give both the technical and the not-so-technical users an in-depth understanding of how things work.<br /><br />Install. Use. Customize. Extend. A mammoth learning curve devoured in small bytes: all digestible, with no choking.<br /><br />From designing coherent forms, to sending pretty HTML emails and managing data, explore the rich scope of possibilities that Webform enables. Also, easily extend and tune Webform with custom components and functionality.<br /><br />With <em>Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook</em> you are placed firmly in the driving seat.</p>

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Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook
Vernon Denny
May, 2012 | 274 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook
Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Setting up Webform
Setting up Webform
Introduction
Downloading and installing Webform
Configuring Webform for our website
Setting user roles and permissions
2
Trying Out Webform
Trying Out Webform
Introduction
Creating a Webform node
Adding textfield components to our Webform
Cloning components
Adding e-mail components
Adding textarea components
Adding fieldset components
Adding select components
Configuring a reply e-mail
Testing our Webform
3
Working with Submissions
Working with Submissions
Introduction
Viewing submissions metadata
Viewing submissions
Editing submissions
Analyzing submitted data
Downloading submissions
Deleting submissions
Clearing the database
Changing Webform results defaults
4
Discovering More Components
Discovering More Components
Introduction
Adding a page break component
Adding a markup component
Adding a hidden component
Adding a grid component
Adding a date component
Adding a time component
Adding a file component
Enhancing component descriptions with HTML
5
Tweaking the Form Settings
Tweaking the Form Settings
Introduction
Confirming submissions
Limiting submissions
Closing and reopening forms
Limiting access to forms
Displaying Webform as block
Saving draft submissions
Warning about previous submissions
Customizing submit button text
6
Extending Webform
Extending Webform
Introduction
Enabling the Select (or other) module
Using the Options Element
Defining custom option lists
Enabling date pop-up
Sending HTML e-mails
Preventing spam with CAPTCHA
Advanced data validation
7
Theming Webform
Theming Webform
Introduction
Preparing our custom theme
Adding custom CSS
Adding JavaScript tricks
Theming the confirmation page
Theming Webform e-mail headers
8
Acting on Webform Submissions
Acting on Webform Submissions
Introduction
Modifying submitted data
Adding custom validation
9
Creating Webform Components
Creating Webform Components
Introduction
Creating the component module
Defining component features
Defining component defaults
Editing components
Rendering components
Displaying and reporting component data
Analyzing component data
Validating submitted data
Testing the module
10
Creating Submission Actions
Creating Submission Actions
Introduction
Creating a new select component
Creating the module
Creating a conditional action
Adding a menu item
Confirming the requested action
Updating a submission
Sending an e-mail
Testing the module
11
Presenting and Managing Data
Presenting and Managing Data
Introduction
Building custom reports
Counting Webform submissions with views
Tracking changes to submissions
12
Going Out of the Box
Going Out of the Box
Introduction
Building a survey form
Defining same-page conditional fields
Validating on the client side
Importing submissions

Adding select components

It is customary to use people's titles in salutations in correspondence. To enable this on our form we're going to set up a drop-down list of titles for our speakers to select from.

How to do it...

  1. 1. On the components overview page, drag the empty component row up to just above First name in the Speaker Details fieldset.

  2. 2. Add a mandatory Select options component with the name of title.

  3. 3. In the required Options textarea on the settings page, let's enter the following options, each one on its own line. Note that the pipe, that is, the vertical line separating the entries on each line is often found on the backslash key (\) on the keyboard:

    Mr|Mr
Mrs|Mrs
Ms|Ms
Dr|Dr
Prof|Prof
Hon|Hon
Rev|Rev

  4. 4. In the Display section of the settings we need to check the Listbox option before saving the component.

There's more...

The options as we have entered them previously tell Webform two things about each option. The first section to the left of the pipe separator is the internal...

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