Clever contact form script

by tinbum
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Hi Warriors

I recently saw a video demonstrating a very clever contact form. -or at least I thought it was clever.

What happened was the visitor would input for example their name and email as is normal for a contact form. The clever part was once the first few characters of the second field were entered an additional field appeared requesting another piece of information ie their phone number. Each time data was input in the new field an additional field appeared.

The beauty is people are not likely to populate a form with multiple fields but once they've input data into a couple they are more likely to complete teh form once they've begun. The rule of commitment and consistancy obliging the visitor to complete what they started.

The presenter demonstrating the form said that in testing the form converted very well compared to a form where all the required fields were already populated.

For the life of me I can't find the video I watched or rememebr the name of the script or form. Can you help? Do you know of an open source script that extends a contact form as the visitor adds data?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Nic
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    That's not too difficult to achieve. We've done stuff like this with Ajax before. What can be brilliant also is you can capture date without them even hitting the submit button.
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    • Profile picture of the author tinbum
      Thanks for your reply.

      I've heard of Ajax but I'm not a coder. Can you suggest a script or tell me what the function or script is commonly known as?

      I've googled everything I can think of but haven't been able to find it yet.
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    • Profile picture of the author nvs74191
      Is this something I can use with wordpress too? And where can I get it?

      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      That's not too difficult to achieve. We've done stuff like this with Ajax before. What can be brilliant also is you can capture date without them even hitting the submit button.
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    • Profile picture of the author petevamp
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      That's not too difficult to achieve. We've done stuff like this with Ajax before. What can be brilliant also is you can capture date without them even hitting the submit button.
      yea its called a cookie we all use them we all embed them we can all take that information from the cookie to the bank later lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Neil Morgan
    One thing I would throw in as a developer is that this would rely on Javascript being enabled on your visitor's browser.

    So you would need to make sure you have a form that will work even if Javascript is disabled.

    Cheers,

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    • Profile picture of the author tinbum
      Neil, thanks for your reply. Are you aware of an off the self script that auto extends contact forms and works even when Java is disabled?

      It'll need to run on Wordpress.

      Thanks...
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      • Profile picture of the author Josh Anderson
        Originally Posted by tinbum View Post

        Neil, thanks for your reply. Are you aware of an off the self script that auto extends contact forms and works even when Java is disabled?

        It'll need to run on Wordpress.

        Thanks...
        Its actually simple.... you just put an alternate static version of the form between two tags: <noscript> </noscript>

        What that does is if the visitor does not have script enabled then the browser uses the code between those two tags.

        Just remember though that the people who have javascript disabled generally know what they are doing because surfing the net with javascript disabled is a lot like driving a car without a steering wheel.
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  • Profile picture of the author gxd5
    Link to video?
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    • Profile picture of the author tinbum
      Hi Josh, thanks for the Java work around. Still keen to find a script or product that creates these expanding forms. Does anyone know of a script or even better a plugin for wordpress that achieves what I've described?

      Thanks...
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