Possible Bug in the Module Feedback Form

[LeisureLarry]

I´ve several problems with the above module:

1. The german letters ä,ö,ü and ß don´t work in emails.
2. I would like to edit the id/name of the form elements with the admin panel.
3. I would like to edit the templates for the form, the thanks page and the error page.
4. Instead of 3 it would be enough to be able to set a new page which is loaded on error or success.

[sjg]

´ve several problems with the above module:

1. The german letters ä,ö,ü and ß don´t work in emails.

I thought I'd fixed that. Is it in the names of the fields that the characters are failing, or is it in the user responses?

I currently encode the emails as UTF-8. Being a stupid American, I don't know too much about the right way to do encoding for alternate character sets. Would it be better to allow the admin to specify their encoding?

2. I would like to edit the id/name of the form elements with the admin panel.

You should be able to edit the names, at least, by going into the form and changing the field name.

3. I would like to edit the templates for the form, the thanks page and the error page.
4. Instead of 3 it would be enough to be able to set a new page which is loaded on error or success.

You can change the text of the thanks page, by clicking on the Form Settings tab in the admin.

I wrote FeedbackForms before I really knew php very well, and I made some really bad decisions. I'm working on writing a completely new FormBuilder, where I'll fix some of those conceptual problems. It will certainly allow you to use templates for just about everything. It's just a matter of getting time to do it.

Unfortunately, I have to earn a living, and can't write CMS MS modules full time

Thanks for your comments, though. I'll try to make sure to address all these issues in the new version.

___Samuel__

[LeisureLarry]

1) It´s both. I have a field name "Straße, Nr.", which is in my form "m2ffstra_e_nr". I don´t find the right variable to get the content of this field mailt. And if a user inputs one or more of these german fields in the form, I cannot see them in my email client. It could be a problem of my email client with utf-8, but then I think the module should be changed, as customers often have special email clients.

2) Yes, I can set a field name, but I don´t like how it´s put into the source code of the form (see example in answer 1).

3) Yes, I can edit the thanks text and even the error message if I edit the language file, but the form isn´t the only content on this page and I don´t want this content to be shown with the thanks/error message.

Beside it would be great to habe more choises how missing required fields are shown. For example a CSS styled "!" behind the input field would be great instead of the error text above the form.

Greats from Germany
LeisureLarry

[dcdent]

´ve several problems with the above module:

1. The german letters ä,ö,ü and ß don´t work in emails.

I thought I'd fixed that. Is it in the names of the fields that the characters are failing, or is it in the user responses?

I currently encode the emails as UTF-8. Being a stupid American, I don't know too much about the right way to do encoding for alternate character sets. Would it be better to allow the admin to specify their encoding?

Thanks for your comments, though. I'll try to make sure to address all these issues in the new version.

___Samuel__

The same issue with baltic encoding windows-1257 site.. We are using that encoding, because in other case google gives not recognizible content on result list.. So, when the mail form is made for utf-8, there is some problems with lithaunian characters (as I said, template, meta-tags and config file are changed to windows-1257).
Question is, who to change feedbackform to the same (or other) charset? Thanx in advance!..