Hi there, I’m fairly new to Kirby/coding in general.
I’d like to create a “user testimonials” page where a visitor can submit a few sentences of text via a text form.
Different than a commenting system as I don’t want the text to appear automatically— I’ll be curating and formatting it myself after submission. I also don’t want the text submission to automatically create a new page.
How would I create this text form to allow for me to simply view the entries as they’re submitted?
Hi,
I’d recommend to create a page for each submission, that way you can easily hide, manage and paginate content instead of storing all of you entries in a single text file.
Since you’re saying you are new to coding why not take a look at the following actual commenting system to see how forms and page creation work with Kirby:
The way I see it, the only difference would be the method of displaying comments/entries, just like you pointed out. I’m not sure how Kirby Comments works, but I guess that Instead of displaying all of the comments automatically, you’d have to tweak the plugin a little so it creates hidden pages/subpages and then publish them yourself via panel.
But, if you’re inclined to keep everything in a single file with no subpages then take a look at this:
https://getkirby.com/docs/cookbook/creating-pages-from-frontend
I’m sure it will be very useful. 
Hi there, I’ve installed the plugin but am having some troubles. I’ve gotten the comments form to appear on the desired page, but when I try to test and submit a comment I get this error:
Too few arguments to function Kirby\Component\Smartypants::parse(), 2 passed in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mlw-project/kirby/helpers.php on line 54 and exactly 3 expected
I’ve made a new template and blueprint - both called “snapshots” - to host the comments page. The blueprint is in the main Kirby blueprint folder, and the template is in the main Kirby templates folder.
Here’s what the template looks like:
Any help would be appreciated!
What’s your Kirby version? There was a bug in 2.5.8 regarding smartypants.