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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

You're reading from   ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook 80 recipes for building attractive and interactive Joomla! forms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849510622
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! Site Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Creating a Simple Form FREE CHAPTER 2. E-mailing Form Results 3. Styling your Form 4. Saving Form Data in the Database 5. Form Validation and Security 6. Showing your Form in your Site 7. Adding Features to your Form 8. Uploading Files from your Forms 9. Writing Form HTML 10. Creating Common Forms 11. Using Form Plug-ins 12. Adding Advanced Features

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...

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