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Getting Started

Essentials

• How to install
• Installing using existing form HTML
• Updating the script
• Using the examples

Customisation

Elements

• Adding a form element
• Removing a form element
• Adding a Date element
• Adding a Time element
• Adding a multiple value element
• File uploads
• Storing file uploads
• Adding an element description
• Confirm email element

Validators

• Changing the required error message – “This field is required”
• Making a field required
• Making a field not required

Styling, themes & layout

• Changing the form theme
• Input and button sizes
• Changing layout using Groups
• Label options
• Changing the tooltips
• Changing the animated loading gif

Form

• Changing the success message
• Quform in a popup (lightbox) – Fancybox 2
• Redirecting to another page after the form is submitted
• Multiple forms
• Displaying a global form error
• Quform in a popup (lightbox) – Colorbox

Email

• Changing / adding notification email recipients
• Sending the form user an autoreply email
• Customising the autoreply email
• Customising the email
• Changing the notification email subject
• Adding extra data to the notification email
• Sending emails via an SMTP server
• Sending a plain text email
• Setting the “From” address
• Different notification email recipients based on chosen subject
• Changing the label of an element in the email
• How to add the user’s IP address to the email
• Accessing submitted form data from inside the emails
• Advanced email settings

CAPTCHA

• Changing the CAPTCHA image
• Using reCAPTCHA v3
• Using reCAPTCHA v2 (“I’m not a robot” checkbox)
• Using reCAPTCHA v2 (Invisible reCAPTCHA badge)
• Using a Honeypot captcha

Advanced

Forms

• Using another character encoding
• Send to friend form
• Adding custom form processing code
• Getting form values & data types

Database

• Saving form data to a MySQL database
• Retrieve form data from a MySQL database

CAPTCHA

• Using a custom CAPTCHA

Validators

• About validators
• Adding a validator to a form element
• Removing a validator from a form element
• Changing the error message generated by a validator
• Validator options (advanced)
• Creating a custom validator (advanced)

Filters

• About filters
• Adding a filter to a form element
• Removing a filter from a form element
• Filter options (advanced)
• Creating a custom filter (advanced)

JavaScript

• Quform JavaScript options
• Custom JavaScript success callbacks
• Custom JavaScript error callbacks

Misc.

• Working with forms with deep nested arrays

Troubleshooting

Email

• You do not receive the email
• Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘phpmailerException’ with message ‘Could not instantiate mail function.’
• Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘phpmailerException’ with message ‘Invalid address: ‘
• The emails are shown to be from “Root User <root@localhost>”

Common problems

• Form does not submit
• Submitting the form takes me to another page
• File upload troubleshooting

Misc.

• Conflicts with other JavaScript libraries (prototype or Mootools etc)
• Character encoding issues
• There was a problem: An error occurred and the response from the server was empty.
• Debug mode