Kint Debug Video Follow-up When I recorded the Kint debugger video the other night, I mentioned that I was calculating subscription transaction renewal dates with jQuery. This is for the Sole Proprietor Expense Tracking application I’m building. I’ve written this application for myself primarily because I don’t need a full blown accounting system, especially after [Read More…]
Be Careful What You Ask For!
You May Just Get It!!
Preface This is the first time in all the time I’ve been creating content for the web, that I’m including a preface in a column, and I’m doing so because this preface may just turn out to be one of the most important messages you’ll ever hear if you are a serious WordPress developer! I’m [Read More…]
Coming Soon: “The Art & Soul of Software Portability”!
Next week I am releasing Volume 1 of the Formidable Forms Developer Series titled “The Art & Soul of Software Portability”. This is an academic edition written for the higher level life-long learning experience based on one of the most popular articles on the Formidable Masterminds site, “Transportable Code”. I’ve written it from the perspective [Read More…]
Add Pizazz to Star Rating Fields with Your Own Symbols
The Importance of Clearly Written Changelogs Even though we read the changelogs for every Formidable release, the individual line items don’t always sink in, and sometimes, their implications can be more far-ranging than expected. For example, this line in the v6.4.2 changelog says: New: Front end icons have been updated to no longer use font [Read More…]
Use FrmEntry::create() with Dynamic Fields
Back Story There’s a little bit of a back story here. This article is the result of a post in the Formidable Masterminds Facebook group by Jeremy Knauff of Spartan Media in Tampa, Florida. Jeremy and I have a long time relationship. In fact, back in the day, he was a client I once helped [Read More…]
How FrmEntry::getAll() Works
The Definitive Guide
Introduction This article evolved from this thread in the Formidable Community. When researching the Formidable KnowledgeBase for an example of FrmEntry::getAll() to answer the community question, I found an example: https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/php-examples/#kb-entries. To save time, here’s the example in the KB article: $entries = FrmEntry::getAll(array(‘it.form_id’ => 5), ‘ ORDER BY it.created_at DESC’, 8); Formidable’s documentation primarily [Read More…]
Formidable User ID Field Experiment
The Experiment As a standard practice, we include the drag and drop user_id field on every form we build. Having the data in frm_item_metas makes user id related queries easier. We just ran an experiment on our development server to see what Formidable does with user_id values. This is the experiment: The hidden user id [Read More…]
Remove “Delete All Entries” Button
Add this snippet to your functions.php or code snippets plugin and the “Delete All Entries” button will be removed from the Formidable form’s entries list page.