The installation of this extension is very simple. Just connect to the Typo3 Extension Repository and download «Form Builder» (formbuilder), located in the frontend plugin section.

On a page, create a new record, anc choose «Frontend form»:

Informations

The first section of a form contains the form's basic informations, such as the title, the description, and the confirmation message (when the form has been submited).

Access

The second section lets you choose which backend usergroups will have access to the form, through the backend module, to see the submissions.

Notification

On the third section, you will be able to enter the email addresses of the persons to notify when there's a new submissions. You can choose either to send them a simple notification message, or to send the the submission's data.

Fields setup

The fourth section is the setup of the fields. You can create as many as you want. Please see the context sensitive help (CSH) for a full description of each field type, with their own options.

Options

The last section contains some options for the form. Again, refer the the context sensitive help for a full description of each option.

After having installed the extension, you'll notice a new backend module, called «Forms», in the web section. This module will display all the forms available in a page, with their submissions (not yet implemented).

You can also visualize from here the datastructure of a form, by clicking «Show XML DS»:

To display a form on a page, you need to place the «Form displayer» plugin on that page, as a content element:

On the main section, just put some forms in the «Startingpoint» fields to have them displayed. If there's more than one form in that field, an index will be built in the frontend.

The second section contains some options for the index of the forms:

You can here choose to display or not the forms descriptions in the index, and to crop them after a given number of characters.