432422 - Submission form for the Firefox Screencasts contest

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites Graveyard :: spreadfirefox.com, defect)

Description

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Attachment: Submitting a screencast in three steps

We need a page on spreadfirefox.com/screencastcontest that will allow people to submit their screencast to.

This should be a form taking the following input:

* Name of contestant
* E-mail
* Name/URL of article the screencast is for
* URL of screencast (we don't host it ourselves!)

The info should be sent to [e-mail].

Wish: Ideally, this would be a submission form on three steps (see attachment), which could theoretically be done with AJAX to keep the content on the same page:

Step 1: Pick an article from a list of 100 names
Step 2: Read info about contest rules/guidelines, tips etc
Step 3: Enter the URL of the screencast and personal info

If the cost of a three-page solution is too high, putting all the info on the same page would be fine as a compromise.

Comment 1

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

The work the webdev team did for me in bug 416458 might be useful for step #3.  I'll leave it up to David and the devs to figure out details, but just wanted to share. :-)

Comment 2

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Thanks Jay! Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to view that bug. Can someone cc me please?

Comment 3

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Attachment: Better mockup

This is taken from a simple mockup of the website we made in Google Docs. Nevermind the weird theme. :)

Comment 4

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Let's scrap the idea of a three-page thing and just do this:

One form, taking:

* Name of contestant (text field)
* E-mail (text field)
* URL where screencast is hosted (text field)
* Name of article (drop-down list of 100 items)

And finally a Submit button that sends the above info to [e-mail]

Comment 5

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Alex - could you take a look at this and let us know if this is doable by Monday given your current schedule?  Thanks.

Comment 6

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Example of form:

<form method="post" action="some_magic_php_mail()_function_call">
Your Name: <input type="text" size="10" maxlength="50" name="name"> <br />
Your E-mail: <input type="text" size="10" maxlength="50" name="email"> <br />
Article: <select name="degree">
<option>Foo</option>
<option>Bar</option>
</select><br />
URL to screencast: <input type="text" size="10" maxlength="50" name="url"> <br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit Screencast!">
</form>


What I really need help with is the submit action. :)

Comment 7

[David Tenser [:djst]]

One other thing: this is to be integrated into a SpreadFirefox Document, which does allow PHP code. The thing I can't seem to figure out is how to call the separate sendmail.php page, since you can't upload specific files on SFX (can you?).

Fwiw, an sfx document also supports <iframe>, so theoretically this form could be hosted elsewhere, but in that case I need to send you the list of the 100 articles to have in the drop-down list of the form.

Comment 8

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

Yeah I can do that by monday.

Comment 9

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Alex, I did some testing and figured out how to create the form myself! The form is on http://www.spreadfirefox.com/screencastcontest/submit and the post action url is http://www.spreadfirefox.com/screencastcontest/submitscreencast.

Thanks anyway! :) Feel free to check if I did some major mistakes, though, but I'm going to mark this bug fixed.