Form Boss Software

Working on my day job for Labadie Auto Company, we decided that it was time to streamline some of our submission forms.  This is an attempt to get more form submissions and less abandons.  After several meetings with the departments involved we were able to pinpoint the minimum amount of information needed for each form.  My next decision was if my time was best spent creating a bunch of secure forms or to hire an outside developer.  After a little research using google I was able to find FormBoss.  This was inexpensive enough and seemed to be the answer.  I played with the online demo and figured others in my department should be able to create forms quickly using this software.

At this point I’m unable to say how the software works!  I purchased the license and have spent the past 4 hours trying to add the extensions needed to make it run and re-complile apache on my linux server.  Ugg!  It seems that everytime I get some PHP software that my server is not configured with the extensions needed to run it.  There was a time when I had a runaway script on the server.  Since then I have locked down the software and security.  Perhaps I went a little to far with the tightening of the server because I can never seem to get 3rd party php software to run without major issues!  Seriously a pain in the butt!  The day is almost over and I still cannot get the FormBoss to install.  I’ll have to try again tomorrow.