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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

Replying to e-mails


Sending an e-mail to the site administrator is great, until he decides to reply. Then we have a problem. When you click Reply, the e-mail that opens is addressed to the site administrator (actually, we set it to [email protected] if you recall). So, he sends the e-mail to himself, and not to the person who submitted the form.

Yet their e-mail is right there in the e-mail text. Can't we put that in the From Email field? Then the reply will go just where we want it.

Well, yes we could put the e-mail in there (technically using a Dynamic From Email field). But then we find that the administrator no longer receives any e-mails at all!

This is most likely because the site ISP is checking for spammers and one of the checks that they run is to compare the site domain with the domain in the From Email header of the e-mail. If they don't match, the e-mail is marked as "likely spam" and dropped in the bin.

The answer is to use the Reply To Name and Reply To Email headers.

Getting ready...