It’s been almost exactly four years since I updated my FormBuilder PHP class, but believe it or not I have been slowly modifying and improving the class during the intervening years. I figured it was high time I rolled those improvements into the public version of the class, so here’s what’s new in version 1.5 of FormBuilder:
Better handling of checkbox results in the emailResults method.
A custom form submit URL can be passed to the FormBuilder constructor. Useful when using FormBuilder in an environment that is performing URL rewriting.
Replaced deprecated ergei functions with preg_match.
Checkbox field types are correctly processed when field is not mandatory, and the user didn’t check any of the available options.
Added new field type: file (for file uploads). Note that files are currently not emailed when using the emailResults method. Any handling of the uploaded files should be accomplished manually by accessing PHP’s $_Files array.
The textbox and textarea field types now accept an optional defaultvalue parameter.
Fixed a bug that meant checkboxes had a CSS class of ‘fbheckbox’ instead of ‘fbcheckbox’.
If you encounter any problems with the new version please let me know.
This morning I’ve been following the hilarious (and cringe inducing) web design OG Twitter meme started by Jeff Croft (if you’re wondering, OG stands for Original Gangster). Here are a few of my favourites:
If you created a website that had “Works best with Netscape Navigator” you may be a #design_og @_j12
If you remember Adobe PageMill, you may be a web design OG. #design_og @meyerweb
If you’ve ever said that your “site looks better in Netscape Navigator” you may just be a web design OG! #design_og @hudsonperalta
If you remember cleaning up bad Word-to-HTML markup by hand in a text editor, you might be a web design OG #design_og @DataG
If u ever designed an interactive CD-ROM you’re a #design_og @daveixd
The very first article I wrote on this blog, back in July 2006, was titled Goodbye hacks. Hello conditional comments. In that post I discussed how conditional comments could be used to feed different stylesheets to older version of Internet Explorer, smoothing differences between browser rendering engines without resorting to CSS hacks.
Conditional comments have provided a great stopgap measure while we wait for obsolete versions of IE to fall into disuse, but as the market share of IE6 and IE7 has dwindled I’ve found myself relying on them less and less. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I resorted to a separate stylesheet to make an old browser behave.
