Fast Secure Contact Form 4.0 project reports

The Fast Secure Contact Form 4.0 project began in late August 2012.
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Mike Challis hires Ken Carlson temporarily for this project to do the bulk of the programming.
August – September 2012: Discussion and planning – Mike Challis and Ken Carlson
October 2012: Programming starts for a brand new Fast Secure Contact Form 4.0

Objectives:
– add tabs to options section for improved user experience
– combine standard fields with custom fields (w/ some limits what can and cannot be done to standard fields)
– use WP settings API for improved security and maintainability
– write upgrade function to import data from legacy version
– simplify and clean up the code

Project overview:
Phase 1: options menu: create options menu, enter, edit, save and load settings, test
Phase 2: contact form: update code to display and process contact forms, test
Phase 3: implementation: write upgrade function, do Beta testing, trouble shooting

How can you help?
Donate to the project and contribute ideas

Version 4.0 dev 1.0 (10/09/2012)
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– new codebase with better use of class structure.
– new way if navigating multiple forms via a drop down select instead of hyperlinks.
– the admin settings are now grouped into a jQuery tabbed interface.
– you can re-order the display sequence of all the fields via a drag and drop interface.
– button to add a new field anywhere in the form.
– the standard fields (name,email,subject,message) can now be manipulated and re-ordered along with the extra fields.

Version 4.0 dev 2.0 (10/30/2012)
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– all options table values are now in the tabs
– buttons to add a new form and add a new field work
– backup/restore/copy settings works ftom the Tools tab
– added a tab for the Preview, which will work once we write the code to display the contact form
– added a checkbox for an option to have a form field on the same line as a previous field

Version 4.0 dev 2.1 (11/01/2012)
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– mostly code cleanup, restructuring code design, and bug fixes.

Version 4.0 dev 2.2 (11/10/2012)
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– added Reset Form function to Tools tab
– added Delete Form function to Tools tab
– added Delete Field function (but not for standard fields)
– added DISABLED message to disabled fields
– Reset Styles checkboxes now work (need to complete form display module to test this)
– “Save Changes” now returns to the same tab after saving
– Check Akismet key checkbox now works
– added html entities unencoding before saving to database
– fixed regex syntax error in validate() function (thanks, Mike!)
– added esc_html to display of form name
– other minor improvements
– testing of all of the above

Version 4.0 dev 2.2.1 (11/13/2012)
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– fixed error: undefined index delete when resetting a form to defaults
– email field type limited to text or email
– changed delete form so that Form 1 cannot be deleted
– added star ratings and version check
– changed set form to default settings to retain the form name (everything else is changed to the default)
– corrected invalid html in the instructions for fields (text in blockquote must be in a container such as p or div)
– reduced the “jump” when the page loads and the tabs are rendered

Version 4.0 dev 2.2.2 (11/16/2012)
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– restructured some functions to make it easier to implement form display
– fixed bug that would sometimes assign an incorrect number to a new form
– implemented changes from newly released v. 3.1.5.6 of the plugin
– added form name to delete form confirmation dialog box
– replaced ctf_stripslashes() with stripslashes() or stripslashes_deep() (for inner arrays)
– implemented update_lang() function
– form field names must be unique, because they will be used to identify fields
– fixed invalid html caused by displaying ctf_action messages too early — didn’t display anything in IE 8
– added internationalization to ctf_action messages displayed via javascript

Version 4.0 dev 2.2.3 (11/20/2012)
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– changed form rating star style names to avoid conflict w/ WP styles and improve look
– added esc_attr() to display of form name, to prevent XSS attacks
– updated and tested uninstall.php
– fixed bug when deleting a form, then restoring all (didn’t appear in form list)
– fixed duplicate form field names: two fields were named ‘si_contact_backup_type’
– returns to the same tab after Save Changes on all three major browsers
– added new form textarea field to enter options for select/checkbox/radio field types, this will make it much simpler to add options

Version 4.0 dev 3.0 (12/06/2012)
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– implemented module to draw the form on the web site (submit and reset don’t work yet)
– all field types display on the contact form
– set up slugs in fields settings, built from field name, forced to be unique, they are used for HTML field names and optional GET inputs
– the slugs are now called “Tags” on the settings page
– tested tags with other languages: works with Chinese and German text
– fixed several things in the settings section
– all optional GET query variables seem to work
– there are no defaults for password, time, or attachment (having one for ‘time’ would be nice?)
– combined field setting ‘default_text’ with ‘default’ to simplify settings
– changed input field ‘value’ on contact form: option index or ‘1’ for single checkbox. For multiples: array of indexes
– added ability to set default for select-multiple and checkbox-muliple in settings with a comma delimited list
– removed Geekmail from the Options menu
– Captcha displays properly (can’t test it until process form code is ready)

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