creating Online form builder

Question

Is it possible to create clone of the site http://jotform.com/ using asp.net

I tried using jquery and asp.net, Creating the user interface is okay,

but i'm stuck in managing the backend e.g. the form will have variable number of fields and the variable number of fields will be saved in the database

saving-retrieving-managing form submission

Answer 1

I guess heavy use of Javascript, look for for YUI or Google GWT.

Answer 2

It is definitely possible, but also probably time consuming and hard. You could use technologies such as asp.net, ajax, css, html and you might even want to throw in a little lolcode.

Answer 3

It certainly is possible to create a clone of jotform. Heck, that website exists, and it was written by humans, working with existing web technologies, right? So it's definitely possible. There are many web technologies involved, definitely JavaScript, and their backend can be implemented on almost any stack.

Sarcasm aside, what exactly is your real question?

Answer 4

I don't know which technology you are proficient in but this can be done in Ruby on Rails, PHP, ASP.NET and more. Depends on how much you can get out of a technology.

Answer 5

Nothing is impossible.

I will suggest jQuery. Because at that web site you can make many of processes with jQuery easily. And you will need CSS information. You may need a programming language like ASP.NET or PHP.

Answer 6

Q: Is it possible to create clone?
A: Yes.

Q: Which technology i should use to achieve this?
A: You can use what that site is using (see below).
From the site's html source:

<script src="http://jotform.com/js/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jotform.com/js/simple.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jotform.com/js/textshadow.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<script src="http://jotform.com/js/builder.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://jotform.com/js/effects.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://jotform.com/js/dragdrop.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="http://jotform.com/js/jotform.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://jotform.com/dimmer/dimmingdiv.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://jotform.com/editor/wysiwyg.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Http header:

 Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.4.4-8+etch6 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
 X-Powered-By   PHP/4.4.4-8+etch6

Summary:
Javascript framework: Prototype and proprietary
Server-side: php 4.4.4 on Apache 1.2.34 Server-OS: Debian Linux
Database: My guess is mySql