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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

By : Bob Janes
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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

By: Bob Janes

Overview of this book

Joomla! is a fantastic way to create a dynamic CMS. Now you want to go to the next step and interact with your users. Forms are the way you ask questions and get replies. ChronoForms is the extension that lets you do that and this book tells you how. From building your first form to creating rich form based applications we will cover the features that ChronoForms offers you in a clear hands-on way. Drawing on three years daily experience using ChronoForms and supporting users there is valuable help for new users and experienced developers alike. We will take you through form development step by step: from creating your first form using ChronoForms’ built-in drag-and-drop tool; validating user input; emailing the results; saving data in the database, showing the form in your Joomla! site and much more.Each chapter addresses a topic like ‘validation’ or ‘email’ and the recipes in the chapter each address a different user question from the beginners’ question ‘How do I set up an email?’ through to more advanced questions like using some PHP to create a custom email Subject line.Over eight chapters and eighty recipes we cover all of the ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ that new users and developers have about using ChronoForms. The recipe structure allows you to pick and choose just the solution that you need.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! Site Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Adding a reCAPTCHA anti-spam check


Some users don't like the ChronoForms built-in Captcha for one reason or another, so there is a ChronoForms plugin to use the third-party Captcha system from reCAPTCHA (see http://recaptcha.net/).

Getting ready

We'll use our familiar newsletter form but please disable the ChronoForms Captcha in the Anti Spam tab of the Form Editor first.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In the Forms Manager click the check-box by the form name and click the reCAPTCHA verification link in the Plugins column at the left.

    You'll see the following Configuration tab. Leave all the settings as they are; just click the Save icon in the toolbar to save the default configuration.

  2. 2. In the Form Editor, click the Plugins tab, and enable the reCAPTCHA verification plugin. Click the Anti Spam tab to make sure that Use Image verification is set to No.

  3. 3. Click the Form Code tab, open the Form HTML box, and find the {imageverification} placeholder if it is there, and remove the whole block. Then add an...