This repo contains the source code for the Form Tools Core. The Core provides the minimal code needed to run Form Tools on your server.
- The
masterbranch contains the Form Tools 3.0.x code. It will remain 3.1contains the work for the next (3.1) major release.
Check out the release sections for earlier, stable releases.
Form Tools 3 (2018) was a complete rewrite of the application. Form Tools started back in 2004 and this was the third (and hardest!) rewrite. The broader goal was to simply modernize the script, but there were also some specific goals: run on PHP 7, use PDO, update all lib dependencies up to date, introduce tests and pave the way for upcoming changes and features.
Form Tools 2 was the production version from 2010-2018. I took a long, 4-year break during that time to work on other projects, but returned to the Form Tools world in 2016 to revamp the site and code. Form Tools 2 is entirely functional code; FT3 converted everything to object-oriented.
- Everything up to Form Tools Core 2.2.7 supports PHP 4.3 - 5.x.
- Form Tools Core 3.0.0 supports PHP 5.3 and later.
3.1- rewriting the installation/upgrade code so that there's no longer hardcoded bundles of the Form Tools script including those modules/themes we choose, but instead you select whatever components your want during the installation, or later on.3.2- revamping the UI. Totally new design, upgrading all the front-end code (i.e. moving to React)3.3- revamping the user permissions to make it roles-based and not have hardcoded "admin" and "client" accounts like now.
Check out TESTS.md. Still in its infancy, but we're getting there.