Using FormLoom Book

My latest creation is now in the hands of my editor; Using FormLoom.

Part of this book my seem simplistic. But many folks, especially new to building a web site, need a foundation for understanding forms. I figured if I was going to write about FormLoom I should cover it completely.

For the rest of you I have a section on MySQL Databases and creating a Table to hold the form data. Dumping the information form a submitted form into a database is a great way to gather the data. It makes it easy to use, search and manage. If all you get from a form submission is an email in your inbox it can be hard to gather up all the email addresses and other submitted information and make it useful.

I have purposely kept the setup of the Database simple and fundamental. It gathers the info, allows you to export it and use it in email programs, applications like "Numbers" or "FileMaker Pro" (my app of choice) and work with the data. Keeping it simple will hopefully reduce errors and issues.

MySQL and Tables are the one area that is probably under utilized by most owners of this great Plugin for Rapidweaver.


Watch for "Using FormLoom" in the Store later this week.


UPDATE: Using FormLoom is now live in the store and available.

Tags: formloom, Books, Rapidweaver