https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: hiding form number in URL en Sun, 03 May 2026 20:41:19 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-20520 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:20:38 +0000 ringo 20520@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I also add my vote for being able to assign a personalized ID to the form. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-20518 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 03:20:18 +0000 maperformance 20518@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Are SEO friendly URL's not going to happen directly in MachForm? I'd like to see it happen for sure. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-17623 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:06:11 +0000 budapestguide 17623@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Another vote for friendly pretty URLs </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14582 Fri, 04 May 2012 14:31:27 +0000 voodoo 14582@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I would like to see friendly URLs as well. This has my vote. :) </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14578 Fri, 04 May 2012 11:37:28 +0000 yuniar 14578@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>TimHines -- that was my post 3 years ago :-) As for now (v3), you can use the PHP Form File or PHP Embed Code option to create custom URL for your form. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14574 Fri, 04 May 2012 04:48:21 +0000 williamansley 14574@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>@TimHines: I believe yuniar was inadvertently using terminology from Machform version 2. In Machform version 3 the "Advanced Embed Code" is now called the PHP Embed Code, if I am not mistaken. Here is a link to the documentation on it:</p> <p><a href="http://www.appnitro.com/doc-form-code#using-php-embed" rel="nofollow">http://www.appnitro.com/doc-form-code#using-php-embed</a></p> <p>As far as password protecting a sensitive form, this leaves the problem of getting the password out securely to everyone who needs it. If the password for a form could be tied into an LDAP, then this would solve that problem, assuming that only people who already have logon credentials in a given organization will need to fill out the form. I will submit a new feature request post for this. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14544 Tue, 01 May 2012 21:21:04 +0000 TimHines 14544@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>where is the "Advanced Embed Code?" I don't see that written any where.</p> <p>I also agree with groovy, that would be a great feature! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14512 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:49:09 +0000 groovybluedog 14512@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I would like a permanent way to hide the form number in the URL. Personally, I would like to see personalised URLs - as in if I call a form "Registration Form", I would like to see "registration-form" in the URL rather than the ID. I totally agree with the purpose of this thread. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14462 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:07:05 +0000 bjose 14462@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Glad to hear you are looking to include this functionality in the near future. I agree with williamansley - we cannot have forms out in the wild where it's pretty easy to get access to another form that's not intended for a specific audience as the form identifiers are integers that are sequentially generated. </p> <p>This is more of a "requirement" than an "option", and using a password to protect forms is not always an option when we send form links to clients. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14439 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:55:09 +0000 yuniar 14439@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Eventually, we're looking forward to that. At this moment we're currently focusing with few other stuff.<br /> If you have sensitive form and don't want to be accessed by anyone, I suggest to set password for you form. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14433 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:23:07 +0000 williamansley 14433@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Would it be possible to keep the simple numeric form ids for internal use by the application and add a new column to the table to associate each one with a GUID, and then use the GUID to create the URL for the form? We just had apparently had an incident where a student found a form under development that was active but not linked to from any page on our web site and filled it out and submitted it. We would prefer not to embed our Machforms, but it is beginning to look as if we may have to.</p> <p>I would be very grateful if you would keep this idea under consideration as a new feature for a future version of Machform. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14427 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:48:52 +0000 yuniar 14427@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I'm afraid there is no easy way to do this, since the ID is pretty much a core to the engine. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-14398 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:39:03 +0000 bjose 14398@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Wondering if there is a (not-so-difficult) way to replace numeric form IDs with GUIDs by modifying the code base?<br /> Thanks! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-4867 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:23:54 +0000 yuniar 4867@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Yes, using the embed code (particularly the Advanced Embed Code), you can hide the URL to your form.</p> <p>If you have very sensitive form, I suggest to make it password protected. Simply go to your form properties and set the password. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-4861 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:58:18 +0000 donflor 4861@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>use the embed feature? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/hiding-form-number-in-url#post-4860 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:50:25 +0000 zim 4860@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I notice the hosted form is accessed with a URL similar to:</p> <p><a href="http://www.appnitro.com/demo/view.php?id=6" rel="nofollow">http://www.appnitro.com/demo/view.php?id=6</a> </p> <p>A user can potentially fill out other forms (some sensitive) by changing the id in the URL. Can view.php be called with POST instead of GET?</p> <p>Or, what about using a GUID type number for the forms? It would be a lot harder to guess '1032-AE80-107362788158787616-A732' than '6' </p>