Yeah! New features! But first, a word of caution.... PHP 4 is no longer supported in this an all future versions of Formidable. If you are running at least version 3.3 of WordPress, rest assured that you will have no problems with this change. However, if WordPress has prevented you from updating past version 3.2 with messages that it is not supported on your server, then you will also need to stop updating Formidable at this point until you can get your web host to update their version of PHP.
Ajax Submit
Ajax submit has been added. It can be enabled on a form-by-form basis. To enable ajax submit, go to the settings page for each form, and check the box to "submit this form with ajax." File uploads will not yet be submitted via ajax.
Increased Security
Security has been increased. First, another vulnerability was found in Open Flash Charts. The safest option was to completely remove Open Flash, so all graphs will now use Google charts. Second, when a custom display is used to show entries, any included javascript will be automatically stripped before displaying on the page. If you are intentionally included javascript in your submitted entries, you can retain it in the custom display with keepjs=1. For example, if your field id is 125, you would use [125 keepjs=1] in your custom display.
Field Stats within Ranges
Added option to limit by ranges in the frm-stats shortcode. For example, this shortcode would only count entries where the value of field 45 was between 1 month and 3 days ago:
[frm-stats id=50 '-1 month'<45<'-3 days']
Dates, numbers, and text values can be used for the greater than and less than options. See more examples.
Additional Field Options
Dropdown fields include a checkbox to allow multiple options to be selected in that field. This switches the field to a multi-select field. The size of this field can also be customized in the field options.
The dropdown to "Allow Only One Entry for Each" field has been modified. All form fields have been removed from this dropdown, in favor of only using the "unique" checkbox in the field options.
Customizing the unique error message is now possible without custom code. It has been added as a global setting as well as an individual field setting.
Email Message Customization
Added buttons to insert default HTML or plain text for those who wish to modify the default message without starting from scratch. For more information on customizing the default message, see this page.
Allow external short codes in the email recipients box.
Additional Content Customizability
Added striphtml=1 for use within custom displays. This allows you to strip any HTML from user-submitted content before displaying it on your site.
Added shortcode option to get the field description with [125 show="description"]. This new option can be used in custom displays, email messages, or anywhere else you can insert field shortcodes.
You may now delete Formidable entries that were used to create post content without also deleting the created posts. Use the new "delete without post" link to delete only the entry. This link can be found on the view and edit entries pages in the back-end.
Custom CSS can now be added directly into the visual styling page in the Formidable global settings. Any CSS added here will not be overwritten when updating the Plugin.
Other Changes and Additions
- Fields with separate values have an extra column on entries page to show the saved value
- Added a link to the uploaded file in the entry edit form
- Added "like" and "not like" options to the conditional logic for hiding and showing fields
- Switched section headings and page breaks to use h3 tags by default instead of h2
- Switched rich text fields to default to TinyMCE
- Switched the field options bulk edit to use the admin ajax url to minimize plugin conflicts
- Show the taxonomy name even if it is not linked to a post
- Fixed post content replacement when entry is updated instead of only on creation
- Moved all stripslashes and unserializing to the point the data is retrieved from the database
- Added quotes around the menu position number to minimize menu position conflicts with other plugins
- View the full Changelog
This seems like a fantastic release - I can think of so many ways the ajax submit will be useful - plus I'm assuming the html strip will work to correct text submissions where users have copied and pasted from websites into a text field. If it works to strip the nonsense html they paste out of the display I'll be a very happy guy. Can't wait to give it a go! Thanks Formidable team!
Does this include multi-select for dropdowns (hopefully with the checkbox option to select rather than having to hold down the control key)?
This is contained in this version, but it doesn't use checkboxes. For now, you must use the control/shift keys to select multiple options.
Yay! Great new features. AJAX Submit FTW!
May I ask why the version numbers keep increasing in an incremental order? I believe an update full of changes and new features like this should be something like v1.7 which emphasizes a major update while upgrading from v1.06.08 to v1.06.09 doesn't look like it holds anything new besides a couple of small bug fixes. Just my two cents.
Yes, you make a good point that there were a lot of features packed into this .09 release. Just wait until you see version 1.7.
I look forward to 1.7 and can't imagine what a 2.0 might bring. Thanks Formidable team!
You people have made my life easier. 1.06.09 new features rock. Recently, I have really been wanting field permission and, viola, there it is! Thank you thank you thank you.
Glad you are liking the field permissions. More great features still planned.