What are the benefits of the different form methods?

Choose the correct form method in ChronoForms.

Overview

The issue arises from not knowing when to use FILE, POST, or GET methods in CF forms.
Use FILE for forms with file uploads, POST for standard form submissions, and GET only if you need data in the URL. For multipage forms, POST and FILE should both work unless there is a separate issue like SEF URL conflicts.

fr fribse 03 May, 2016

In the Load HTML I can set it to File, Post and Get.
What are the benefits of the different?

ca calculus00 03 May, 2016

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What are the 'Easy Form' and 'Form' Wizards?
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fr fribse 03 May, 2016

Hi Calculus
Thankyou very much, but that didn't hit the mark :-)

Gr GreyHead 03 May, 2016

Hi Fribse,

If you have a file upload use FILE, otherwise use POST unless you need to send the data in the form of a URL when you use GET.

Bob

fr fribse 03 May, 2016

Ok, I see. Thamkyou for the enlightment!
I just tried changing the form method on a few forms from FILE, that it was set to originally, to POST.
On most of them it works, but my multipage form doesn't seem to go to page 2 if I do that?

Gr GreyHead 03 May, 2016

Answer

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Hi Fribse,

Post or File should make no difference to the form submitting to the next page. More likely there is some other problem, possibly with SEF URLs.

Bob

fr fribse 04 May, 2016

I see, ok, thankyou, I've created another post about the problem, as it seems to be linked to whether it's a menuitem or not.
The POST method seems to work fine otherwise.

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