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).

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