Cayenne Forms is a self-hosted web app that lets you keep your websites simple, while maintaining control of your data.
Static sites are simple and cheap (or even free!) to deploy, but when you need a form, things can get complicated. By self-hosting a single Cayenne Forms instance, you can have as many form-enabled static sites as you want.
- Self-hosted: Own your websites' data.
- Invite only: You have full control over who has access to the dashboard.
- Unlimited form endpoints: The amount of forms & entries is only limited by your server's storage space.
- User-friendly: Enjoy a modern dashboard to manage your forms & entries.
- Admin CLI: Perform admin actions using Artisan-based console commands.
- PHP 8.2+
- MySQL 8.0+
- Node.js 18.16+
php artisan cayenne:invite johndoe@example.comAn email will be sent to johndoe@example.com with an invite link.
On the invite page, fill out the credentials for the new account and click "Create account".
On the forms list page, click on "+ New form".
On the form creation page, fill out the new form's name (required).
If you want, you can also set a URL to send users to when after submitting an entry ("Success URL"), and a field to detect bots and mark as trashed if filled out ("Honeypot field"). These are both optional.
In order to receive entries, you'll need to add an HTML form to your website, with an action attribute set to the form
endpoint you just created. Luckily, Cayenne Forms generates some code you can copy & paste right into your website.
Click on "Edit", then go to the "Form Endpoint" > "Embed Code" section at the top, and click "Copy". Now the code is copied to the contents of your clipboard.
Add the form code to your site. You'll need to add some fields to submit to the endpoint.
Now any data your users send using your website's form will be available in your dashboard!