Generic Form Handler? about learn-to-send-email-via-google-script-html-no-server HOT 6 CLOSED

@mckennapsean After using this script for a little project, I think I would have liked the listener event to be attached to forms with a specific data-* attribute. Something like data-form="gform". The script isn't really complicated as-is, but having to go in and manually edit the form handler wasn't really expected based on the project's README (which lead me to think it was generic and I could just drop it in and it'd hook into any form submission on that page)

I used this in a project that used nodejs, so what I was really hoping for was to do something like this for forget about it:

gform = require('google-form-submitter')
gform.init('my-form-id');
// event now bound to #my-form-id

Want me to do a PR?

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That could work, but could you be more specific

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The form-submission-handler.js currently has some opinionated logic in it. For example, it expects the form to have a specific ID and have a field named email.

It would be nice if any form could be submitted, without looking for special field names and stuff like that.

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Definitely agree there, @dagoss. What is the best solution, do you think? Should it be a variable passed into a function that declares which form to grab data from? Or something else? We could also improve the email thing by only performing this check if such a field exists. I have just commented out that code when I haven't needed it myself.

One part of the issue is about the type of data which the form can send and store in Google Spreadsheet/email. After some PR's I sent in, this should be working with anything a browser supports (with the possible exception of IE).

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By all means, you are welcome to! That makes sense and sounds fairly sane, and it could even then support multiple forms on a single page with the same script. :)

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As a note, this original issue seems to be about:

A) supporting multiple types of input/form elements and form data

But we have also steered this discussion (based on the title, I think) onto:

B) Making the form more generic / support more options and customizations and be less "opinionated" or allow those assumptions to be overridden.

A) has been addressed in #17 (with the exception of images/files in other issues) with the test.html file, and then B) I will add a new issue about, so feel free to continue discussion in the relevant issues.

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