FacileForms is great for simple forms but its true strength is in its ability to go beyond static forms and enter the realm of applications development. As we will see in this tutorial FacileForms allows you to create Database Tables, Insert information from  a user into tables, and display the results in a form. It also allows you to tap into the powerful Mambo $MainFrame and interact with users and content.

Our task for this tutorial is to create a Tag Board module that can be customized. We will cover page redirection, user rites and access, and data manipulation.

Let me start by saying that this tutorial is written by someone with minimal coding skills. Fortunately for me there is Mambo and Facile Forms. These two used in combination open the world of custom design to the coding impaired. It is my hope that writing from this perspective will help others jump in and try their own hand at Package design for FacileForms. If you have not looked at the FirstForm flash movie that Peter put together, I would highly recomend you take a peek as a precursor to working through this tutorial. It will familiarize you with many of the steps we are going to use here. It can be found in the downloads section or at the FacileForms section on Mamboforge.

When your form exceeds the component space available in your site template, you might want to run your form as a separate browser window. This short tutorial shows how to do it.

With two lines of embedded code you can enhance your contact form, so it prefills the name and email for registred users: