I've created mailing forms dozens of times, but on comes a new topic. Dynamic forms. A client wants me to make them a form where they can resell it as a package for other people. They want a form designed so the users can make their own questions and change the outlook of the form and everything.

Solution: Somehow set it up where the user creates questions and selects 'textbox', 'radio button', 'text line', 'text box', etc. I have this setup save the information to a flatfile database, DB_file or just a text file. From here, print the desired results.

Questions: Is that how any of you would go about doing this? Would it be easier having them write questions|form option type|required on each line of a text document and parse it? How would you require some fields this way? That would require a complete rewrite of the script source to have them create dynamic forms where they can choose what they want to be a required form field.

I am lost as to how this is done, so any advice that you can offer..

In reply to dynamic forms by Anonymous Monk

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