simple website for attendance registration

[VJ]

Hello,

I need to design a simple form to allow people to register for a conference we are hosting. The website is designed by another person, and will be statically (the site has to exist for a long time, in an archive of past conferences, so this was deemed the easiest).

My web developments are a bit rusty, but I'm assuming I need some html form, php script and mysql database? Or are there better alternatives now?


Thanks,


Jörg

[Rakido]

that's what you need.

If you want to have it as easy as possible, try this

http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/

phpFormGenerator is a an easy, online tool for creating reliable, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing web forms in a snap. No programming of any sort is required: phpFormGenerator generates the HTML code, the form processor code (PHP), and the field validation code automatically via an easy, point-and-click interface.

phpFormGenerator provides several delivery formats. You can choose to have your form results delivered via email, sent to a MySQL database, and written to a data file (which you can then open in Excel and other programs).

[UtwigMU]

You can create great sites in wordpress:

And if you have linux server, you can install it or get cheap hosting.

Then for simple forms you use one of wordpress forms plugins, where you configure everything in control panel. Install free wordpress plugin, then configure form in plugin options

No need to code HTML or PHP (unless you want more than built-in themes provide)

See

http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/screenshots/

or here

http://www.zingiri.com/form-builder/

You can also reuse php code from wordrpess forms on your site (see how it's done there, reuse code).

Set up a free wordpress site, then install one of forms plugins and then see how code is done (use editor in wordpress or inspect element in firefox/chrome)

[VJ]

Rakido: Nice one!

Utwigmu: I knew about WordPress, but as the page should be functional for a long time (in an archive of past conferences), a static website was considered the easiest/safest option: just dump the html files into a webfolder, and it works. The registration page will have a database link, but that page can disappear after the conference finishes.

[VJ]

I managed to make a quick testcase and run it in xampp, using the formgenerator. It is quite simple, but good enough for what we need. I had some issues getting it to work, but after unzipping the file, you need to run the install.php script (it fills out fields related to the database and prepare the database).

I'll just have to check with the sysadmin how to host it and how to set security, but this really helped me a lot!

Thanks!