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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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Bob Janes Bob Janes
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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

Including your form in an article using the ChronoForms plugin


In this recipe, we'll look at inserting a form into an existing Joomla! article. Our newsletter article is the kind of form where it makes sense to insert a small form at a relevant point in a long article.

Note

Usually, it doesn't make sense to create an article primarily to contain a form. If you want short paragraphs of text to go before or after a form, then it is more practical to add the text into the Form HTML. All of the same formatting can be applied there if you use the site CSS.

Getting ready

At the risk of being very boring, we're going to use the same newsletter subscription form yet again.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Go to the ChronoForms site, click the Downloads menu item (http://chronoengine.com/downloads), and navigate to the current release of the ChronoForms plugin (also called the Mambot / Plugin).

  2. 2. Install the plugin from the Joomla! Administration | Extensions | Install/Uninstall page in exactly the same way as we did...

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