2012-12-08, 06:54:57
(2012-12-08, 03:04:45)hameau Wrote:I didnt even consider dyna pages, still havent even tried that plugin I usually just take the clunky approach to things so I remember what I did ha.(2012-12-07, 07:15:36)bhwebco Wrote: This is much faster than messing with trying to integrate a plugin or getting the current plugin forms to cooperate since one out of a hundred devs actually stick with any given plugin project longer than a month.
I expect that most plugins are started to satisfy a particular requirement and once that aim is achieved, there's little incentive to develop further. Indeed, development for other users' needs can quickly take over, so I'm not at all surprised that many plugins become orphaned. All the more reason to make a donation if a particular developer keeps going and his output is useful.
Regarding the contact form, I agree that it's not very 'point and click' with my solution, but now that I know it reasonably well, it's easy to provide a good, reliable contact form, with proper sanity checking of field content, blacklisting and real checks of e-mail addresses (both syntax and the existence of MX records). In other words, it's a robust solution that I can comfortably deploy and sleep easy.
For me, there are some big problems with phpform.info, the biggest being that there is only the most basic of input checking. I agree that I'm not familiar with it, but it took me a long time to work through a very basic form and I wasn't very happy with the code at the end.
But that's the great thing about choice. ;-)
I may look deeper in to that p01 contact plugin and see if I can get any of the template variables to actually work right when building a form as it would be a decent integrated system if it didnt have a mind of its own and take breaks from parsing its own code randomly.