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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

Viewing your saved form results


Once you have set up your form to save results in a database table you will want to look at them to see exactly what is being saved.

Getting ready

Save a few records from the newsletter with the DB Connection enabled that we created in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Go to the back-end Forms Manager view and click on the new link in the Tables Connected column to show the ChronoForms data viewer. This is a basic tool but is good enough for checking the data in simple forms.

  2. 2. Here you can see that three records have been saved in the table. Click Record 1 to open it and you can see the details of that record.

    The last three lines are the data that was entered in the form; the others are from the data that ChronoForms adds (if you leave those bars enabled when you create the table). They are:

    • cf_id: The unique ID for the record in the table

    • uid: A random string that ChronoForms uses for a little added security; sometimes it is useful to identify a record

    • recordtime...