After a long delay – I’ve been working on my fiction books and other projects – FST version 17 is just about ready for release. I’m doing some final testing now, making sure all the features work like they should.

There are some exciting new features upcoming in version 17!

• File Attachments are much improved. Your form can now have a ‘files’ button for multiple file attachments.  And file attachments work much better (it got borked in prior version).
• Mail sending, especially with more complex forms, now uses PHPMailer for all mailing functions. Much more powerful than the standard PHP mail() function, and easier to implement in code. (The big delay in this version was getting file attachments to consistently work. PHPMailer made it much easier.)
• Some bug fixes of things that broke in prior versions.
• And more!

If you have new desired features, now is the time to let me know. The new feature of multiple file attachments was much requested. And caused me the most irritation until I decided that PHPMailer needed to be used.

Upgrading your forms to this new version will require that you download and install PHPMailer on the site. The docs will have the instructions you need. It’s just three files to put in a subfolder of where your form is.

FST has been very popular over the 10+ years it’s been in existence. I think that these new features will be well-received.

If you are on our mailing list, you’ll get an email when version 17 is released. I’m hoping for mid-February (maybe sooner). Takes a while to test everything, and update all the documentation. Especially with all the other projects – like my fiction writing (see my author web site) and other programming and web site projects.

Thanks to those that have supported FST with donations. They provide me incentive to keep updating this project.