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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

By : Bob Janes
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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

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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.
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Introduction

For most of the recipes so far, we've used the ChronoForms Form Wizard to create our forms. This is quick and simple, and sometimes it just doesn't do what we need. For example, if the form needs a different layout, if we already have a form on an old site, if we need something more complex that takes too long with the Wizard, or if we just enjoy hand-coding HTML. In any of these cases, we need other ways of getting our HTML to work with ChronoForms.

With very few limits, ChronoForms will quite happily accept any HTML from any source; it doesn't have to be created in ChronoForms.

It will help here if we make some distinctions to be clear just what we are talking about as we go forward. A web form has several parts:

  • The Page HTML: All of the HTML code that goes into creating the web page.
  • The Form HTML: Those parts of the HTML that are specifically linked to the way this form works. Mostly these are the form controls — <input>, <select>, <option...
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