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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 form in Dreamweaver


Dreamweaver is a popular website development tool that can easily be used to create the HTML for a form. If you don't have Dreamweaver then you can use most other website development tools in a similar way.

Getting ready

We're going to use a simple example of a form created in Dreamweaver following the Creating a Form tutorial by Joseph Lowery and available from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0160.

Once again, this is a simple form as our intention here is to show you how to use the HTML in ChronoForms. There are many tutorials on the Adobe site and elsewhere that can teach you how to use Dreamweaver to create form code.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Here's what the form looks like in Dreamweaver:

    Switch to the code view in Dreamweaver and find the form code in the HTML. It's this section, including the 'Get Aquo Info' header just before the <form . . . > tag.

    Copy the whole of this block.

  2. 2. Open the ChronoForms Forms Manager and click...