Posts Tagged "Forms"

Using Multiple Submit Buttons With A Single Form

After a while of web development, developers usually come across a project where they need to create multiple submit buttons with a single form. This usually occurs right when they have a table that has several rows and each row has a couple buttons to edit or delete the row. These rows might have been added dynamically using JavaScript or they could have been simply created sever-side as the table ...

Loading Gravity Forms from a Database

If you are a developer that has been working with the Gravity Form plugin, you undoubtedly have run across the need to load a form based on a row from the database. Finding documentation on how exactly to go about doing this is very sparse. Unless you have reasoned it out well, you are probably pulling your hair right about now and are at a standstill. In this blog post ...

A Brief Overview of Honey Pot Form Fields

What is a honey pot field? Honey pot fields are HTML form fields that you put into your forms designed to catch bots (automated scripts that fill in forms attempting to spam). These fields are put in so that bots see them but humans do not. Perhaps the field is put into the form but hidden from normal users using a CSS style like "display: none;" or "visibility: hidden;". Since most ...

Passing Data Between Forms – Using Delegates and Events

Back in an article I wrote in 2010 titled "Passing Data Between Forms in C# or VB.NET", I described one of a couple methods for passing data between two forms in a .NET forms project. One method was to publicly expose a method on a child form that the parent form could then call on when needed. At the same time I also mentioned, and advised against, using a public ...

Passing Data Between Forms in C# or VB.NET

One of the first obstacles that people new to C# (or VB.NET for that matter) run into is how to get two forms to communicate with one another. How do you get your main form (a parent) to open and pass along data to another form (the child)? This question typically arises when the programmer wants to create a dialog situation where they click a button to launch a dialog ...