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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

Creating a "dynamic" subject line using info from the form


Here's one more "hijacking" example to end this chapter. ChronoForms gives you two choices for your e-mail subject — either a fixed phrase using the "subject" element in the Email Setup, or a value returned from the form using the "dynamic subject" element.

It's a frequent request to have a subject line that's a bit of each — a fixed text with a variable element. We can do this with another code snippet in the OnSubmit Before box.

Getting ready

We'll use the same form and alter the Admin Email Setup to include the value of the name field.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In the Form Editor go to the Email Setup by clicking on the Setup Emails tab and find the setup for the e-mail to the site administrator, delete the Subject element and drag in a Dynamic Subject instead.

  2. 2. Put subject (no quotes, no brackets) into the Dynamic Subject box, Enable the Email Setup, and Apply the changes in the Email Properties box.

  3. 3. Go to the Form Code tab and open...