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Howdy folks!

PHP 8.3 was officially released to general availability on November 23, 2023. It is a major update of the PHP language and contains many new features and performance improvements.

Today, we’re happy to let you know that we’ve just released MachForm 21, which is fully compatible with PHP 8.3.

The new version of MachForm (version 21) is now available for download in the Billing Area.

PHP & MySQL Version Requirement

MachForm v21 requires the minimum version of PHP on your server to be at least PHP 7.4 and MySQL version at least MySQL 5.7. If you’re still using an older version, you’ll need to upgrade your PHP and/or MySQL version first.

This is a maintenance release and we recommend upgrading if you’re using PHP 8.3.

Changelog

• Update: PHP 8.3 Compatibility
• Update: Replaced the deprecated Swiftmailer library with PHPMailer for sending emails
• Update: Now uses “UTF8MB4” as the character set for MySQL tables, to support emojis in form fields
• Bugfix: The Rating widget on the shared report doesn’t display correctly
• Bugfix: Unable to use ‘&’ on form redirect URL
• Bugfix: Approval conditions don’t work on reports and exports

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users with an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it in the Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, no further action is required on your part. We automatically update the MachForm version for all our cloud users with the latest version.

Howdy, folks! 🙂

Ever needed to create private forms that collect sensitive information and allow access only to a specific list of users? Now, you can easily do this with MachForm v20!

In addition to the existing functionality that lets you set a password for your forms, you can now specify a list of users (using their email) to restrict access to your form.

Any user attempting to access the form will be required to log in before they can view and submit it. Users will be prompted to log in using their email and a one-time password (OTP) sent to their email.

Combine this new functionality with the “Data Encryption” feature on your form, and you’ll have very secure forms built in minutes!

The new version of MachForm (version 20) is now available for download on Billing Area.

PHP & MySQL Version Requirement

MachForm v20 requires the minimum version of PHP on your server to be at least PHP 7.4 and MySQL version at least MySQL 5.7. If you’re still using older version, you’ll need to upgrade your PHP and/or MySQL version first.

We strongly recommend upgrading due to improved compatibility and bugfixes within this release.

Changelog

• Feature: Require form users to login before submitting forms
• Feature: Added option to do range limit by ‘digits’ on Single Line Text field, to accept only numbers and allow leading zeros
• Feature: Added option to set max rows per page on entries page
• Improvement: Form builder page now able to fix and cleanup malformed HTML tags
• Improvement: Added option to specify MySQL SSL Cert and custom port number
• Improvement: Automatically-enabled CAPTCHA and submission limit on form receiving high amount of bot submissions
• Improvement: Allows advanced CSS on theme editor to use @import statement
• Update: Removed ‘Javascript jQuery’ embed code
• Update: Added configuration to enforce backend tables to use MyISAM engine
• Update: On forms having CAPTCHA enabled, CAPTCHA is now enforced on every submission, not just the first one
• Bugfix: On the form manager page, the search doesn’t work properly when the form is having character ‘#’ as part of the title
• Bugfix: Syntax error on mf.js, particulary inside the try..catch block, preventing the form from being loaded on web view of windows app
• Bugfix: When success message contains any HTML tag, it won’t be enclosed with H2 tag to allow custom formatting
• Bugfix: Dompdf compatibility with PHP 8.1
• Bugfix: Export entries failure on some specific conditions when entries are sorted
• Bugfix: Digits validation on Number field can be bypassed using leading zeroes
• Bugfix: User able to submit additional multiple payments (Braintree, Authorizenet) on existing entries
• Bugfix: Major incompatibility change with new Stripe API as of version 2023-08-16. Related with payment_method_types parameter
• Bugfix: User shouldn’t be automatically logged-in after doing password reset
• Bugfix: Unable to save form edits due to ‘column already exist’ SQL error
• Bugfix: Image alignment not being set on PDF and email content
• Bugfix: Entries not being highlighted correctly when selected
• Bugfix: “X-Forwarded-For” header abused by spam bots to bypass ip address submission limit
• Bugfix: Validation to disable future dates selection on date field is not working

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users having an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, there is no further action required on your side. We automatically update MachForm version on all our cloud users with the latest version.

All forms generated by MachForm have been responsive, mobile-friendly design, since a long time ago. However, the admin panel dashboard never receives an update on this area.

Mobile-friendly Admin Panel

Today we’ve improved the admin panel dashboard and made it accessible through mobile devices. You can easily access your forms and data using interfaces optimized for your smartphone.

You still can’t build/edit your forms through the mobile-friendly interface but you can easily access your form entries (edit/delete) or change settings (notifications) or approve/deny entries when you have the approval workflow feature enabled.

Customizable Address Field

We’ve also made some improvements with the address field.

We received many feedback (a lot of it!) regarding the subfields label placement and now we’ve moved the subfields label to be above the field (instead of below). This should avoid any confusion with your users when filling the address field.

You can also completely adjust the subfields labels and individual subfield visibility! You can choose to show/hide any part of the address field.

So here you go, a fully customized Address field 🙂

These new features are part of the latest version of MachForm (Version 18) which we’ve just released today and it is now available for downloads on Billing Area.

This update added several new features, improvements, and bug fixes. We recommend you to upgrade due to improved functionalities within this release.

Changelog

• Feature: Mobile-friendly Admin Panel Dashboard
• Feature: Fully Customized Address Field Labels and Visibility
• Update: Added Romanian Lei currency
• Update: Added Kosovo into the country list
• Bugfix: Using empty date as condition on entries page display error message under MySQL 8
• Bugfix: “Admin only” dropdown fields doesn’t populate the option when creating the filter on entries page
• Bugfix: Updating Dropdown/Multiple Choice values doesn’t update keywords on Logic rules and report filters as well
• Bugfix: On a form with ‘edit entry’ enabled, file upload fields always display “required” error message on live form edit entry page, even if there is file exist already
• Bugfix: Garbled email content (raw text) when running under PHP 8.x
• Bugfix: Edit link doesn’t work when form limit submission enabled and reached the limit
• Bugfix: Filtering entries using the first field on the form as the condition doesn’t work
• Bugfix: Chrome and Firefox blocked cross domain session cokies. Embedding forms across different domain caused session expiry issue
• Bugfix: Pressing enter on ‘decrypt entry’ dialog generate some error message

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users having an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, there is no further action required on your side. We’ve automatically updated MachForm version on all our cloud users with the latest version. You can use the new features right now!

Howdy folks! 🙂

We’ve been working hard since our last update and I’m happy to let you know that we’ve added several exciting new features into MachForm!

New Rating Field!

Most of you most likely have been using the Multiple Choice field to collect feedback from users, which works great but is quite basic. You can now do the same thing with a more visually appealing field, the Rating field!

The rating field is highly customizable. You can collect 1-10 ratings using several types of icons (star, heart, thumb, etc). You can add rating labels underneath the rating icons.

You can also use the rating field when building logic on your form.

Rating Scorecard Widget

Once you’ve collected those feedback from your users using the Rating field, you can now easily display the result using the new Rating Scorecard widget under the Report section of your form.

You can choose to show/hide the rating bars, total entries, title and even filter the entries being used to generate the rating scorecard.

Keyword Blocking

In addition to the spam protection option (CAPTCHA), you can now enable Keyword Blocking on your form to further protect your form from spam submission.

Specify keywords that you believe are being used for spam and your form will automatically discard any submission containing any of the keywords.

Approval Workflow Email Customization

Yes, finally, just like the email content template that is fully customizable, you can now also customize the approval workflow email and use merge tags!

These new features are part of the latest version of MachForm (Version 17) which we’ve just released today and it is now available for downloads on Billing Area.

This update added several new features, improvements, and bugfixes. We recommend you to upgrade due to improved functionalities within this release.

Changelog

• Feature: New Rating Field
• Feature: New Rating Scorecard Report Widget
• Feature: Keyword Blocking on form submissions
• Feature: Customizable Approval Workflow Email Content
• Feature: Recent Emails suggestion on email entry page
• Feature: Entries Grid widget now support filtering
• Update: PHP 8.1 Compatibility
• Update: MySQL errors will be logged into PHP error log file
• Update: Improved accessibility for screen readers on error messages and grouped fields
• Update: Grid widget now will display all selected columns
• Update: Added option to pass user and password to bind Active Directory (user:pass@ldap-hostname)
• Update: Removed Deprecated PayPal Pro REST API for new forms
• Update: Added option to force clear entries filter using “clear_filter=1” parameter on entries page
• Bugfix: Forms having signature fields doesn’t display submit button on review pages
• Bugfix: The “delay notification until paid” option doesn’t work properly on a form having payment and approval enabled at once, logic notifications and integrations doesn’t work
• Bugfix: “Todays entries” count doesn’t reset correctly
• Bugfix: “Session expired” error on payment pages for Authorize.net, Braintree, PayPal REST
• Bugfix: “ID required” error on payment pages
• Bugfix: Unable to approve entry on view entry page
• Bugfix: Field logic conditions doesn’t consistently ignore HTML tags
• Bugfix: Unable to import form from previous versions
• Bugfix: Empty merge tag for signature field doesn’t generate empty data
• Bugfix: Some tables not being cleared when a form being deleted
• Bugfix: Disabled/deleted forms still able to accept payments
• Bugfix: Edit link shouldn’t be prompted for form password any longer
• Bugfix: The PDF export on entry page is missing the form title

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users having an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, there is no further action required on your side. We’ve automatically updated MachForm version on all our cloud users with the latest version. You can use the new features right now!

Howdy folks! 🙂

Previously, when you need to share your form with other users, you’ll need to become an administrator or contact your administrator to change the permissions of your form.

Using the new manage access feature, you can now do this on your own!
To use this feature, you can go to your Form Info page.

and then choose manage access

You’ll be able to assign specific permissions for each user:

This new feature is part of the new version of MachForm (Version 15) which we’ve just released today and it is now available for downloads on Billing Area.

This update added new feature and bugfixes. We recommend you to upgrade due to improved functionalities within this release.

Changelog

• Feature: Allow users to share forms on their own
• Feature: Added option to open a blank new form when running under “edit entry” mode
• Bugfix: User without ‘edit entry’ permission shouldn’t be able to see the edit link on entry
• Bugfix: ‘exif_read_data()’ warning message upon upload
• Bugfix: ‘mime_content_type()’ error message upon upload
• Bugfix: When default admin theme is not vibrant, user won’t be able to choose vibrant as their preferred theme
• Bugfix: Compatibility issue with the webhook sending incorrect Authorization: BASIC header
• Bugfix: Compatibility with PHP 7.4 when sending using SMTP
• Bugfix: Stripe compatibility issue with PHP 7.4
• Bugfix: Signature images has wrong path on windows server when MachForm installed on root domain
• Bugfix: On a single-page form, submitting a new form immediately after editing an entry will overwrite the data to the previously edited entry
• Bugfix: Edit entry on form with payment and ‘delay notification until paid’ turned on won’t resend notification
• Bugfix: Edit entry on form having payment enabled and review page will always redirect to payment page, even if the status already paid
• Bugfix: Saving error when the form is having ‘Allow Users to Save and Resume Later’ and ‘Allow Users to Edit Completed Submission’ turned on at the same time
• Bugfix: The “Default From Name” is not being used when creating new forms
• Bugfix: Improved accessibility with text captcha
• Bugfix: Improved accessibility on submit buttons
• Bugfix: New Stripe API keys are 255 characters long, the old one are 50 characters long
• Bugfix: Activity log not deleted when delete ALL entries, reset the entries ID or delete with MF_CONF_TRUE_DELETE enabled
• Bugfix: Entry’s ‘Date Created’ is being overwritten incorrectly when both Edit Entry and Resume feature enabled
• Bugfix: When email subject is having quotes characters and PDF enabled, the PDF can’t be attached
• Bugfix: Variable typo on confirm page
• Bugfix: Fixes error message ‘implode(): Passing glue string after array is deprecated’
• Bugfix: Date field can’t handle “is empty” condition on entries/grid page
• Bugfix: First attempt on solving captcha always resulted to failure
• Bugfix: When ‘enable choice limit’ turned on and limit has reached maximum, admin can’t edit the entry
• Bugfix: Webhook won’t be send any longer when the target URL doesn’t have path/only domain
• Bugfix: Added config option to enable/disable SQL debug mode
• Update: Internal CAPTCHA no longer uses session
• Bugfix: Theme not applied in form locked when user not set theme in their profile
• Bugfix: Entries column preferences not deleted when field has been deleted
• Bugfix: Removed hard coding on default name and from email address in logic notification
• Bugfix: mf.js generate console error message when receiving postMessage from external script

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users having an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, there is no further action required on your side. We’ve automatically updated MachForm version on all our cloud users with the latest version. You can use the new features right now!

Howdy folks! 🙂

By default, once a form has been submitted by the end-users, the form data can’t be updated any longer by the end users and only admin having the ability to edit the data.

In some cases, you might need to allow your form users to modify their submission on a later date.

Using the Allow Users to Edit Completed Submission feature, you can do this easily. When you enabled this feature, the end-users will see an edit link on the success page of the form and receive a confirmation email containing the edit link as well (you’ll need to enable confirmation email on your form).

To enable this feature on your form, edit your form, click the Form Properties tab and click the show more options link. Then check the Allow Users to Edit Completed Submission option.

For more details, please check Allow Users to Edit Completed Submission in MachForm.

This new feature is part of the new version of MachForm (Version 14) which we’ve just released today and it is now available for downloads on Billing Area.

This update added new feature and bugfixes. We recommend you to upgrade due to improved functionalities within this release.

Changelog

• Feature: Allow Users to Edit Completed Submission
• Bugfix: Braintree payments deprecated issue
• Bugfix: Theme selection not available on user profile page when LDAP enabled
• Bugfix: On multipage form, logic emails are being sent twice when the skip page logic to success page is active
• Bugfix: Any field with field visibility “Hidden” and “required” at the same time is causing validation error and prevent the form from being submitted
• Bugfix: Submitting payment on Stripe for recurring payment with setup fee generate “Received unknown parameter: account_balance” error
• Bugfix: Resuming deleted incomplete entries shouldn’t be possible
• Bugfix: Can’t decrypt multi-field (address, name, etc) when there is empty field in the middle
• Bugfix: Editing/adding folder doesn’t work on Edge browser
• Bugfix: JPEG file sometimes uploaded with incorrect orientation

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users having an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, there is no further action required on your side. We’ve automatically updated MachForm version on all our cloud users with the latest version. You can use the new features right now!

Howdy folks! 🙂

We’re excited to let you know that we’ve added several exciting new features to MachForm!

Smart Folders

We improved the old “Form Filters” functionality and bring it to the next level as Smart Folders!

Smart Folders automatically find and organize forms on your MachForm by your search criteria. Because they update continuously, these folders can save you a lot of time and effort, particularly when you have large amount of forms.

For example, you can create a Smart Folder to get the following:

• Forms created by a certain user
• Forms having a specific one or more tags
• Forms having a specific keyword within the title
• Forms having X amount of entries within the last X days/months
• Forms having any entry within the last X day/week/month/year
• Forms with active status only
• Forms with deleted status only
• and many others

Creating a smart folder is easy and straight forward. Simply create the folder and define the conditions for the folder. You can have as many conditions as you need for each folder.

Dark Mode

Yes, it’s the same dark mode as you’ve seen on your smartphones! It’s finally coming into MachForm.

When using the Dark Mode theme, MachForm admin panel uses a darker color palette for all screens, views, menus, and controls, and it uses more vibrancy to make foreground content stand out against the darker backgrounds.

Users are now able to choose their own preferred admin panel theme, including the new Dark Mode theme.

These new features are part of the latest version of MachForm (Version 13) which we’ve just released today and it is now available for downloads on Billing Area.

This update added several new features, improvements, security updates and bugfixes. We strongly recommend you to upgrade due to improved functionalities and security updates within this release.

Changelog

• Feature: Smart Folders
• Feature: Dark Mode admin panel theme
• Bugfix: Editing an entry with existing signature field from older version will discard the signature
• Bugfix: When LDAP enabled (not exclusively), unable to edit users email address & password
• Bugfix: When review page enabled, logic emails are being sent twice when the skip page logic to success page is active
• Bugfix: Unable to turn off Apple Pay / Google Pay option on Stripe integration
• Bugfix: guidelines_bottom should set the width of the field to maximum width
• Bugfix: Resume link not displayed once an entry has been updated
• Bugfix: Unable to remove attached files when editing an entry
• Bugfix: Recurring payment on Stripe marked as Test Mode even when using live keys
• Bugfix: Customer Name not sent to Stripe correctly
• Bugfix: Google Sheets/Calendar integration run twice when the form having skip page logic turned on
• Improvement: Updated DOMPDF library to 0.8.3 for improved result and compatibility with PHP7.3, also avoid being flagged as spam
• Improvement: Added option to disable links within PDF sent through notification emails
• Security Update: Prevent null bytes injection attack

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users having an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, there is no further action required on your side. We’ve automatically updated MachForm version on all our cloud users with the latest version. You can use the new features right now!

Howdy folks! 🙂

We’ve been working hard since our last update on January and I’m happy to let you know that we’ve added several exciting new features into MachForm!

New and Improved Signature Field!

We have rewritten the entire Signature field code and it’s now better than ever. The new signature field generates a smoother signature and compatible with more devices. Fully support display with High DPI and works great with Tablet PC (Microsoft Surface Pro), either using a mouse, touch screen or stylus pen.

Also, the new signature field allows you to either draw the signature or just type it and MachForm will generate the signature image!

Audit Trail

Digital signatures are just as legally binding as handwritten signatures. Now that we’ve improved the signature field, we also went further and provide you with the tool to ensure the integrity of your data: Audit Trail

When you update any form’s entry, MachForm will automatically log the complete information (Name, Email, IP Address, Browser information, Timestamp) of the person who modified the entry.

Embed PDF Document

Need to display large contract document to your client? Or display complex infographics data? Just put them into PDF document and then embed the PDF directly into your form!

We’ve improved the Media field and you can now use it to embed PDF documents directly into your forms.

Easy Export/Import Form Template

This feature was a bit hidden and now we’ve moved it to the Form Manager page so that any users could easily export or import form template.

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) support for Stripe

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), a new rule coming into effect on September 14, 2019 as part of PSD2 regulation in Europe, will require changes to how your European customers authenticate online payments.

When it goes into effect, a form of two-factor authentication will be required for many card payments. Unless you update your integration, your customers’ banks will decline many transactions.

We’ve updated our Stripe integration to fully support Strong Customer Authentication. Updating your MachForm with this version (v12) will make you comply with the SCA rule.

Customizable PDF Content

Yes, finally, just like the email content template that is fully customizable, you can now also customize the content of the PDF attached to the notification emails!

These new features are part of the latest version of MachForm (Version 12) which we’ve just released today and it is now available for downloads on Billing Area.

This update added several new features, improvements, and bugfixes. We recommend you to upgrade due to improved functionalities within this release.

Changelog

• Feature: New and Improved Signature Field
• Feature: Embed PDF Document into form using Media Field
• Feature: Audit Trail for Entries
• Feature: Customizable PDF Content
• Feature: Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) support for Stripe
• Improvement: Export/Import form template from the form manager page
• Improvement: Removed days limit from the max/min date property
• Bugfix: Connecting to Google Calendar after connecting to Google Sheet within the same form generates error message
• Bugfix: On certain conditions, deleting one field would delete other field logic rules
• Bugfix: Some encrypted field type (address, name) won’t saved correctly when review page is enabled
• Bugfix: Choice limit is not validated correctly upon form submission
• Bugfix: Added ‘Gibraltar’ into the country list
• Bugfix: Matrix fields hidden due to logic shouldn’t be displayed within email
• Bugfix: Google Calendar integration generate error message upon empty date values
• Bugfix: Uploaded files name having quotes as part of the filename can’t be deleted from the form
• Bugfix: When logic to display success page enabled, the default form redirect is not working
• Bugfix: Internal image captcha won’t be displayed using PHP 7.2
• Bugfix: Password reset option generates error message using MySQL 5.7
• Bugfix: PDF Export doesn’t display decrypted data when key is available

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users having an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, there is no further action required on your side. We’ve automatically updated MachForm version on all our cloud users with the latest version. You can use the new features right now!