[okfn-discuss] Any suggestions for off-the-shelf registration form code?

Tue Oct 17 10:58:04 UTC 2006

Simon Roe wrote:
> As I'm sure you know, I love drupal, and it has modules written for it
> that allow for people to sign up for an event, an add
> comments/forums/wikis etc.
> 
> I don't know about other options, but I'm sure they are out there.

Good point Simon though I was rather hoping to find something 
'standalone'. There are quite a few frameworks that provide this 
functionality as part of a larger package but installing something such 
as drupal simply to have registration might be overkill.

Regards,

Rufus

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> On 10/16/06, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
>> We've got various events coming up including the forum on civic
>> information in November. It would be useful to have some way for people
>> to register themselves. In the past we've either:
>>
>>    1. Just asked people to email
>>    2. Thrown together a php script to do this
>>
>> (1) is rather time consuming (particularly if you need to send
>> acknowledgements etc) while with (2) one often finds that the form ends
>> up getting spammed to death (the moral of this seems to be that it is
>> harder than one might imagine to write something simple and robust).
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for existing code 'out there' that
>> could be used?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>>
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