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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

Moving an existing form to ChronoForms


When we think about a web form, we often have something in mind such as, "I'd like a form like that", or we have an existing form on another site that we want to move over into this site and into ChronoForms.

Usually it's fairly easy to get the functionality moved over. It may take a while to work through all the wrinkles though!

Getting ready

We're going to create a "functional" copy of an existing form inside ChronoForms. All we need to do to prepare, is to go to Google and find their famous home page:

This is the familiar Google Classic home page. It is, of course, a form. Now we don't have access to the backend functionality that Google uses so we won't be creating a functional Google search form, just the frontend part of it.

How to do it . . .

  1. 1. In your web browser, find the View Source option. Right-click on the page and select View Source in Internet Explorer 8 or Safari, View Page Source in Firefox or Chrome, or just plain Source in Opera.

    Depending...

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