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David Foster	Wednesday 19 October 2005 2:27:06 am As part of our intranet I want to include a variety of online forms to serve the internal business requirements of our organisation. Can anyone help me to understand how to do this. I know how to create and display forms in xhtml pages but am confused re ezpublish.
Arran Price	Wednesday 19 October 2005 3:09:31 pm Hi David, depending on the complexity of the forms and where you want the data stored you have at least a couple of options. You can create normal forms with post/get and create code to handle them. You can also create a new class type for your form to hold the details and have it stored in ezpublish. This can be quite an effective and easy way of going about things, but you may want to tailor the edit template to make the user experience nicer. Using the new class approach is my recommendation depending on the complexity of your form (and what you are using it for). Arran
Bruce Morrison	Wednesday 19 October 2005 5:31:50 pm Hi David We have developed a "form builder" addon to eZ publish that we hope to have available via the eZ online shop very soon. It basically allows you to define forms and have them included in a content type via a datatype. Form results can be emailed and/or stored in the database where they can be exported in CSV format. Let me know if this is something you might find useful or if you want to see it in action. Cheers Bruce My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/ Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish
David Foster	Thursday 20 October 2005 3:22:13 am Thanks Arran I'll try out your suggestion. Hi Bruce I would be interested in finding out more about your Form Builder. Keep me posted please. My e-mail is david.foster@southyorks.pnn.police.uk
Kåre Køhler Høvik	Thursday 20 October 2005 5:24:50 am It might also be worth to take a look at the survey module : http://ez.no/community/contribs/applications/ez_survey Kåre Høvik

eZ debug

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Timing points:

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Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
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Check MTime	0.0013	0.1769	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
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Looping result	0.0007	0.0908	65	0.0000
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Template load	0.0021	0.2949	2	0.0011
Template processing	0.6847	95.6195	2	0.3423
Template load and register function	0.0014	0.1985	1	0.0014
states
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state_identifier_array	0.0012	0.1630	2	0.0006
Override
Cache load	0.0017	0.2386	29	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0005	0.0712	4	0.0001
Fetch class attribute name	0.0025	0.3473	7	0.0004
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0059	0.8205	4	0.0015
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0018	7	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0080	1.1113	21	0.0004
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