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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

Showing and editing saved information with the Profile plug-in


ChronoForms is an excellent component for creating forms and e-mailing or saving the information submitted by the user. If the data is saved, then one of the frequent tasks that we have to do with that data is to either take a look at it, or to edit it.

ChronoForms has a simple data viewer in the Admin area but it's not available in the Front-end for users to access and it doesn't allow data editing.

The Profile Plugin is the answer to this when working with a single record. The plug-in allows us to connect to a database table, extract a single record and display it, either for viewing or as an editable form.

(There's also ChronoForms, sister product ChronoConnectivity that is designed to work with lists of many records.)

Getting ready

The Profile plug-in will work with any data that is stored in a database table (provided that the table has a Primary Key column so that you can uniquely identify a record).

Note

Note: This means...