Category: WCOC

Kari Sletten – @KariSletten on Twitter – www.icebergwebdesign.com/fun-with-forms

Conditional Logic!
Passing Variables!
Dynamic Surveys!
Custom PDFs!

• Have you ever filled out a form? — heck yah.
• A lot of this talk references Gravity Forms but can be reflected in other similar services

Conditional Logic

• Ask questions that contain different results depending on the results
• Customer example
  • shipping company
  • does your company use a factoring company
    • yes / no — related questions dependent on answers
• customer example
  • What do you want help with today
  • four tiles leading to related questions
• Passing variables to forms
  • School
    • Schedule a visit
      • Pre-populate form with data already captured in an earlier form to reduce the need to input it again.
• Police activities league
  • one very long form that covers everything (seasonal sports)
  • drop down select of sport — open or closed
    • If open, you can register
    • if closed, no option to do anything
• passing variables in a url
  • select who it is you want to email
    • you don’t see her email but she’ll get it
    • ? variable
    • assign variable to “elen’s email address”
• Survey
  • Weighted survey from multiple domains
    • How do they compare — are they worth targeting as customers?
    • IE how much money does your business make?
    • what industry are you in?
    • Weighted values for each answer to a larger number — this reminds me of a buzzfeed survey
    • Gravity Forms has filter hooks that can be manipulated
      • add numbers, do math
    • Display the results — see how you measure up to your industry peers
• Confirmations
  • add score to notification email or screen
  • set score value — show total
  • send to a custom destination

Gravity Forms PDF

• Create a digital certificate PDF that’s downloaded from a password protected page

Dwayne McDaniel – Pantheon

Let’s talk about magic

• Don’t be afraid of bash, just use it
• Stephen R. Bourne Created Unix shell in ’79
• bash “causes actions” its that simple
• Linux ’92 / ’93 Linus Torvalds
  • Now you can run in on Windows 😐
• Build Tools
  • CirlceCi
  • Jenkins
  • CI / CD

Bash

• Included in Mac and Linux
• Can install on Windows
• $ prompt
• ~ home directory
• pwd – present working directory
• ls – list contents of directory
• ls -a list contents – all (including hidden files)
• .. – one level up
• mkdir – make directory
• cp – copy
• mv – move
• rm – remove
• rm -rf — remove all recursive (be careful)
• history — show history of commands
• clear — clear screen
• open — Open files and directories

Tools

• grep — general regular expression search
• curl — pull from a url
  • curl – I — header
• vi – editor
• nano – editor
• calc – calculator
• git – version control
• ddgr – duck duck go search
• wp – wpcli — WordPress command line
• backstop — automates visual regression
• example image magic — convert images
• .bashrc — create a alias such as ff to open Firefox if you want
  • automate bash commands into a sequence
• Scripting
  • “hello world”
  • use wp-cli to automate stuff you do frequently
  • build a script to build websites
  • run scripts to update, test, test, move to production all within bash
  • ctrl a — move to front of line

Tips

• duck duck go is great for documentation
• watch star wars in asci