User Manual
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The Home Page
Index
The [quick start] link on the Home page of the Master Form .PHP Control Panel is for handy review of how to quickly get a form up and running. It contains the same text as the Quick Start section of this manual.
Some of the menu items listed below have their own pages in this manual. For those, a link at the end of the section goes to that page.
Create Table Setup
One or more table setups may be needed if:
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More functionality is desired than the default setup. (The default setup only stores the form information in a MySQL table. It does not send any email and does not process upload files.)
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The information from certain forms should be kept in their own MySQL database tables.
Every time a Master Form .PHP table setup is created, a corresponding MySQL database table is automatically created.
The table setup tells Master Form .PHP how to handle the form submitted information.
After a table setup is created, the control panel will print a box with the code of a hidden field. Paste the hidden field into forms that will use the setup. (The same hidden field can be obtained later with the "Get Setup Info" menu item.)
More information about this section here.
Table Setup Selection Dropdown List
(available after at least one table has been set up)
When a Master Form .PHP table setup has been created, this dropdown list appears on the Home page. The dropdown lists each table setup, including the default table.
A selection from this dropdown list is needed to get setup information or for editing or deleting a setup.
Get Setup Info
(available after at least one table has been set up)
When a selection is made from the table setup selection dropdown list, clicking this menu item will reveal certain information about the setup.
The hidden field for copying and pasting into the forms to use the table setup is on the page (except the default setup, which requires no hidden field).
Other information revealed includes email destinations (if available), the corresponding MySQL database table name, and whether or not table columns are automatically added as needed to store form submitted data.
More information about this section here.
Edit Setup
(available after at least one table has been set up)
When a selection is made from the table setup selection dropdown list, clicking this menu item will allow the setup information to be edited. (The default table setup can not be edited.)
All fields used to create the setup, except the corresponding MySQL database table name, may be changed.
More information about this section here.
Delete Setup
(available after at least one table has been set up)
When a selection is made from the table setup selection dropdown list, clicking this menu item will allow the setup to be deleted. (The default table setup can not be deleted.)
When the menu item is clicked, the next page will ask whether or not to also delete the corresponding MySQL database table.
More information about this section here.
Download Table Data
The content of individual MySQL database tables is downloaded by clicking this menu item. The download is a CSV file.
More information about this section here.
User Manual
This menu item opens the manual's primary page. You are reading one of the manual's pages.
The manual will be updated from time to time.
Log Out
This menu item logs you out of the control panel by negating the login cookie.
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