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Publish Tutorial

Publishing the "Contact Us" Form

1. After clicking the Publish icon on the graphical interface or the “Next” button at the lower-right of the screen, we must fill in the Remote Info section:

• Form Name: We assign a name of our choosing to the form. SeaGreen will automatically add the .php extension to the name.
  

• Access: In this instance, we have selected the most common method of web publication, File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
  

• FTP Host: refers to the actual web space where you will be publishing your form. There are different ways that this is expressed between different web hosts. But in this case, we will be publishing to a test domain called seagreensoftware.net, and our web host has specified that “seagreensoftware.net” is the FTP Host.
  

• Publish Directory: We have selected a particular directory (/public_html) within our toohumen.com webspace where we wish to publish the form. If you forget, SeaGreen will add the / to the directory path for you.
  

• Login: You will have your own personal login, specific to your web host. In our case, our login is “seanet.”
  

• Password: This is our personal login. Again, this is specific to your web host.

 

2. Now, we must fill in the Database Info section. Database Info consists of the Database Host, Database Name, Username, and Password that we assigned to our database earlier on.

Note: The database Username and Password have nothing to do with the Admin Module login or the FTP Remote Info Login.

 

3. Click Connect and then Publish to publish the form and its related files.

 

4. Wait until the Progress Information box disappears, meaning that the form has been correctly published. This can take a few minutes, depending on your internet connection:

 

5. After the form has successfully published, SeaGreen verifies this, and lets you either create a new form or exit the application.

 

6. If you want to check the file structure of your published form, just click any step in the process, and then click on the Publish step again. The right side of the SeaGreen environment, called Browse FTP, gives us a remote view of the file directories at our web host. Our form has been correctly published to our host. There is no need to log directly into your web host, because SeaGreen shows you all the remote files within its interface.

 

View Form Online

To see our form, we type www.seagreensoftware.net/contact_us.php in our browser. This takes us to our form page, where we can type in some test data and submit to verify that the form works.

Note: SeaGreen forms have the extension .php - they are not .html or .htm files.

 

View Administration Module

Next, to view our Administration Page, we type in www.seagreensoftware.net/contact_us.php/am. After logging into the Administration page with the Username “administrator” and the password "friday321,” we see our Admin Page. This allows us to search for the data that we are interested in.

Remember, your search criteria will be what you entered as your search field's label:

Read more about what you can do with the web-based Admin Module.