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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

Attaching uploaded files to the e-mail


We'll be seeing later on in Chapter 8, Uploading Files from your Forms how to add file inputs to your forms and handle the files after the form is submitted. Here we are going to anticipate that and look at how to add an uploaded file to an e-mail.

Getting ready

Any form with a file input and an Email Setup will work.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the Email Setup by clicking the Setup Emails tab for the form and in the Email Properties box and set Enable Attachments to Yes (actually that's the default setting so you probably won't have to do anything).

  2. 2. Test the form.

That's it!

See also

  • Chapter 8, Uploading Files From your Forms is where we talk about uploading files from your forms. See the first recipe in that chapter to add a file input to your form.