Extension:CIForms

The CIForms extension allows for rapid creation of forms, either standard forms with input fields aimed at receiving data from visitors, or forms with multiple choice questions or even complex Cloze tests to be used as teaching tools for current students or to engage prospective ones.

All forms include automatic validation, are protected by the latest version of Google recaptcha (if enabled) and have been inspired by this extension at Wikiversity and they diverge from it mainly because the submitted data are sent to the provided email address, rather than used to compute a score.

Please check Help:Extension:CIForms for detailed examples.

Features

 * forms with input of various format (with placeholders, responsive, mandatory fields, different input types, like 'text', 'email', 'password', 'textarea', 'email', 'tel', etc.)
 * multiple choice questions (with optional inputs within choices)
 * cloze tests, multiline, and with arbitrary number of inputs per line
 * forms can be nested/grouped together (see picture below)
 * native validation and optional captcha verification
 * complex forms with html and wikitext, like tests with sentences, tables, dialogues, and more! (see here for the related examples)
 * submitted forms are converted to pdf and then sent by email using phpmailer'''
 * all css' standard list style types are supported, plus some shortcuts like "letters", "ordered", "numbers", "unordered" (see below, sections "Parameters")



Installation/Download
Please download from here and then install the dependencies (phpmailer and dompdf) using composer

(Tested on Mediawiki 1.34 and 1.35)

Usage

 * See How it works on culturaitaliana.org

Examples
This is the simplest example of a form with inputs

which produces the following



Multiple choice with arbitrary input fields



and much more! see the complete list of examples here

List of parameters
Please visit this page Help:Extension:CIForms for additional examples and here for their visualization.

Configuration
First ensure that the parameter  of your wiki is set to true, and that either   is set to some value, or   (all of them are typically located/placed in the file LocalSettings.php) contains the sender email address of your forms.

Conversely,  contains the email address to which the form data will be dispatched once submitted by the visitor, which will be used where the   parameter is missing from the form's template. (precisely a parser function).

The same applies to  and , they will be used as long as   and   are not specified within the form.

Output
CIForms produces a pdf with a form virtually identical to the original, with filled-in fields, which is sent to the provided email address upon form submission!

Known issues

 * Due to this Visual Editor's bug, if the 1st parameter after the function name is separated by a new line, Visual Editor will not recognize the template/parser function and will surround it with unwanted 'nowiki' tags. Therefore use always the following

rather than the following


 * the template is interpreted rigorously and the parser function does not try to fix little mistakes in the parameters, like missing pipes (|) or wrong parameters. This might be updated in future