What's new in Simfatic Forms 5.0.11.467
Nov 5, 2022
- Fixes MySQL error in PHP 8.1 ( implode() function update)
- Supports Ratufa.io form back-end
New in Simfatic Forms 5.0.10.464 (Jan 29, 2022)
- Works fine with PHP 8 and 8.1
- Works on Windows 11
- Fixes issue where Paypal response page was not redirected to https:// page but to http:// page
- Fixes issue where elements from deleted pages appear in single page forms.
New in Simfatic Forms 5.0.9.462 (Apr 24, 2020)
- Works fine with PHP 7.4 Fixes Deprecated error message
- Fixes an issue where form was not properly responsive on iPhone browsers
New in Simfatic Forms 5.0.8.459 (Nov 20, 2018)
- Fixes in the Look & Feel Page
- Fixed the "Save & Continue" feature for better security
- The form does not generate same sequence even if the same form is installed multiple times (on same server or different servers)
New in Simfatic Forms 5.0.6.450 (Feb 7, 2018)
- Better Responsive alignment of elements
- Other minor fixes and improvements
New in Simfatic Forms 5.0.5.448 (Jun 26, 2017)
- fixes multi-page forms with different sizes display issue
- Paypal calculated quantity/variable quatity not getting updated - fixed
- Added an option in Decimal (numeric) field to turn off the up/down spinner
- Other small fixes and enhancements
New in Simfatic Forms 5.0.3.443 (Feb 3, 2017)
- PHP 7 support
- added HTML5 output code option in the options dlg
- string functions for calc field concat(a,b,c,d,e,f,g) concatenates all the strings
- str("") for string literals more date functions month(date) gets the month of the date. Similarly year(date), day_of_month(date) and day_of_week(date)
- replaces http: in the embed form code part with so that https embeds should work fine
- Better SMTP, defaults to port 587, uses PHPMailer rather than Pear lib
- SMTP based on port no
- Updated PEAR.php so static function error shouldn't occur
- responsive option in the options dlg
- uses mysqli API
New in Simfatic Forms 4.0.12.416 (Jun 22, 2015)
- Enhanced Lists & Cascaded List handling
- List items can contain quotes, commas, or both
- Adds Simfatic Forms version to fwz file and to the generated form page
- This helps in tracking problems (especially in if you are using an older version)
- Numeric Fields can be initialized to be blank (instead of 0)
- Multi-line textfield’s default value with auto-hide works fine with IE
- Conditional last page->access denied problem – fixed
- Form to email- complex conditional email works fine
New in Simfatic Forms 4.0.11.403 (Jun 18, 2013)
- Short UniqueID if Save to Database option is enabled
- Fixed problem with radio group copy paste to another page
- Form fields can be used as variables in other pages
- Fixed 'access denied' problem(security checks) in networks where the IP adress changes frequently
- Paypal works fine on PHP4 servers as well
New in Simfatic Forms 4.0.10 (Jun 18, 2013)
- Fixed the problem where calculation fields does not work properly when different locale is selected
- Database field length limits updated so that the total field length does not cross MySQL limitations
- for big forms
- Better Paypal integration
- Sessions work fine even when the form is embedded from another domain
New in Simfatic Forms 4.0.9 (Jun 18, 2013)
- Bug Fix: expires early on some systems
- Bug Fix: error loading multi-page forms for certain forms
New in Simfatic Forms 4.0.8 (Jun 18, 2013)
- Multi-page forms.(With conditional pages and save and continue support.)
- Paypal support
- 'Conditional' page sections: hide/show a section of the form based on conditions
- Conditional recipients (for 'form to email')
- Loading drop-down lists from database
- Cascaded lists (Changing one dropdown list loads other)
- Better/easier calculation fields.
- 'Value maps' for calculation fields
- Online preview of the forms
- 'Test and preview the form' before upload
- New File Upload widget, with preview support
- New in Form processing options: timezone & 'allow load from URL'
- Fixed: CSS file gets cached by browser and form looks bad - prevents css files from caching
- New field: Unique ID
- Calculation fields available in conditions
- New feature: download the form submission CSV file from the form admin page
- New Validation script. The error messages are displayed more interactively.
- Hyperlink now has a popup option
- The calculation field has 'format as currency' option
- new function :'age' for calculations
- New form integration options; Popup form feature.
- New 'Look & Feel' Page
- The background image/color of the form can be edited in the Look & Feel Page
- Better re-install (uploads only the changed files)
- 'Must be unique' validation added for text fields
- More Align options added
- Submit buttons show a 'loading...' animation on pressed
- New elements: Box, Vertical/horizontal lines
- Localization : Date & currency format can be selected in the Form:General->Localization tab
- New Date Field: Initial value feature. Date fields can have an initial value; whether a fixed date or a date like 'today' or another_date + 2 days
- Feature to move pages
- Custom HTML widget: insert custom HTML or a complete custom widget anywhere in the form
- New widget: Multi-select listbox (a scrollable list of multiple choices)
- Look and Feel: The page can have a common font that the other elements inherit.
- Look and Feel: Text boxes, multiline textboxes & dropdown lists style can be customized in the Look & Feel page.
- A new 'Javascript tab' for custom Javascript code in the custom code dialog box.
- Inserting a field table in the form to email page: a new easier UI is added.
- Individual Label style can be edited now
- Better context menus in Draw the form page
- Auto hiding Default text for textbox & multiline text
New in Simfatic Forms 3.1.2.207 (Apr 17, 2010)
- You can change the DocType of generated code in Options & Settings
- The generated code passes HTML/XHTML(strict) validations at w3.org
- More standardization: 'label' tag and 'for' attribute
- CSS positioning in separate CSS file rather than inline style
- The position and size of the elements could be adjusted precisely. There are edit boxes in the 'Draw the form' page to adjust the size and position of the elements. The form size also could be adjusted.
- Print button in 'confirm' page. The buttons in 'Confirm' page can be adjusted individually.
- CAPTCHA can have i18n (non-English) characters & CAPTCHA case insensitive option
- New 'automatic' variables: User Agent, Referrer Page, O.S, Browser ,Form submission date
- HTTP authentication is supported.
- Better Form templates. Form templates can now be shared
- 'Extension Modules' for extending the default functionality
- Many other fixes and improvements
New in Simfatic Forms 3.0.3.170 (Jul 22, 2009)
- Support for visually drawing the form
- More elements: Date field, Captcha, Image, Calculation field, Decimal Field
- Database (mysql) support
- Data viewer to see the form submissions
- Wizard for form Installation ('take the code' page)
- More options for code generation. (separate files, single amalgamated script etc)
- Image buttons (Submit/Reset); better, customizable buttons.
- 'Edit' button in the confirmation page. Press edit to make changes before final submission
New in Simfatic Forms 2.1.7.108 (Jun 10, 2008)
- The application is made Unicode compatible. The characters from international
- languages are accepted in UI screens. The generated HTML pages are in UTF-8.
- The main window could be resized and maximized.
- The script was self updating (during installation) in Simfatic Forms version 2.0
- This required that the script be writeable. This is changed. The configuration is
- written in to another file. So the script need not be writeable.
- Validations could be removed by right clicking the validation node in the
- validations page.
- Updated to use a new FTP library from marshallsoft. Seems to be better than
- native Windows FTP API. Simfatic Forms should now work well with all different types
- of FTP servers.
- New feature: copy and paste form code. After installing the form, a link is enabled in the 'Install' page to open
- a dialog with copy-paste form code.
- You can provide an email address to receive form processing errors so that
- you are informed immediately if there is an error
- The from address of the form mail could be an email field from the form so that you can just press the reply button in the
- email to reply to the form submissions.
New in Simfatic Forms 1.1.4.55 Beta 5 (Jun 8, 2006)
- Added direct help page links for some UI elements
- Ability to have variables in the subject field of the emails
- Fixed issues with 'Delete Generated Files' box
- Ability to move the group items(list box, check box group/radio group) up/down
- Network path in the base folder works