Title: [Plugin: Visual Form Builder] Assigning names to fields
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Visual Form Builder] Assigning names to fields

 *  [willieallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willieallen/)
 * (@willieallen)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-visual-form-builder-assigning-names-to-fields/)
 * My form is simple – just one big textarea where user copies and pastes data. 
   I want the page to submit to another page I wrote in PHP. I want to assign the
   name “original” to the “textarea”.
 * How can this be accomplished and how would be able to submit the form to another
   page – html code like <FORM METHOD=”POST” ACTION=”localhost/wordpress/unigroup/
   extractbolinfo.php”>
 * The receiving page, “extractbolinfo.php”, would take the “original” name from
   the form and parse it and spit out a PDF document.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/visual-form-builder/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/visual-form-builder/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Matthew Muro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmuro/)
 * (@mmuro)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-visual-form-builder-assigning-names-to-fields/#post-2656802)
 * No, that’s not something you can accomplish with this plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [willieallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willieallen/)
 * (@willieallen)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-visual-form-builder-assigning-names-to-fields/#post-2656806)
 * What happens to the info that is filled in the <textarea> after <submit> has 
   been pressed? I get the part you cannot redirect to a “localhost” – I have the
   form redirecting to a TLD – but I need to be able to access the contents of the
   <textarea> box.
 *  Plugin Author [Matthew Muro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmuro/)
 * (@mmuro)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-visual-form-builder-assigning-names-to-fields/#post-2656822)
 * All form items are added to the database as an entry and then sent out as an 
   email.
 *  [jsperl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsperl/)
 * (@jsperl)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-visual-form-builder-assigning-names-to-fields/#post-2656930)
 * Are you saying there is no way to set the action of a form? Does the pro version
   allow this? Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [willieallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willieallen/)
 * (@willieallen)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-visual-form-builder-assigning-names-to-fields/#post-2656931)
 * I guess another stupid question, do you have to use another plugin to access 
   the data that was entered on this form – what is the purpose of having this form
   if all you can do is make data entry look pretty?
 * To get around this option, I used an <IFRAME> plugin and linked to my PHP page–
   which I was able to direct to my “localhost”.
 *  Plugin Author [Matthew Muro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmuro/)
 * (@mmuro)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-visual-form-builder-assigning-names-to-fields/#post-2656943)
 * > Are you saying there is no way to set the action of a form? Does the pro version
   > allow this?
 * Correct. The Pro version does not allow this, either.
 * As for accessing the entered data, you can go to the Entries screen and can view
   or manage them. With Pro, you can edit them.
 *  [jsperl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsperl/)
 * (@jsperl)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-visual-form-builder-assigning-names-to-fields/#post-2656944)
 * Ok thanks, but unfortunately that doesn’t help me. I need a form that can pass
   data to an external web app for processing. Maybe time to try and roll my own!
   🙂
 *  [jsperl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsperl/)
 * (@jsperl)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-visual-form-builder-assigning-names-to-fields/#post-2656945)
 * Forgot to add: very nicely done interface btw…too bad, I really liked what you
   did…

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