Need some help with forms

Tuesday 26 August 2003 2:30:21 am

Hi,

I want to create a form that any anonymous user can fill out to participate in a tournament. After the form is sent, the information must be put into the database and can be shown in a list of participants on the site.

One (easy) way is doing this through standard information collection and let the form send a mail to some operator. But this still gives some non-automated manual work, which is not wanted.

I have been looking through the forums and the documentation. Somebody mentions to make an normal class which can be used like in the admin interface to fill out and saved into the db. In that case for this class the anonymous role must be adapted so anybody can create an entry. My problem is how do I show an input template as a form that takes care of the input and saves it as an object into the database? And how do I create a link to that form? Could I use a 'full.tpl' template and adapt it for input? Actually it should be like in the admin interface to fill out the info.

Thanks,
Jan

Tuesday 26 August 2003 6:26:28 am

Thanks Bjørn,

This is precisely what I wanted. I had not checked the demo fully. At the moment I have created a rough working version for my participants list and they only thing left is how to shorten the text input fields from 70 to something shorter, so the layout looks good. Seems that I have to override ezltext.tpl.

Thanks,
Jan