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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

Getting the user to confirm their data before submission


When a form includes important or complex information, it can be useful to give the user a chance to take a look and make sure that the details are correct before finally submitting the form. And, of course, this must include the ability to go back and correct any mistakes or omissions.

ChronoForms provides this functionality with a plugin, an extra that can be added to a form when it is needed. Several plugins are included in the standard ChronoForms installations and it is one of these — the "Confirmation Page" plugin, which we will be using in this recipe.

Note

ChronoForms plugins are quite distinct from Joomla! plugins although they unfortunately use the same name.

Getting ready

Once again we'll be working with the same newsletter form. By now you may have several versions, so create a new copy of the basic form with just the two inputs for name and e-mail.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the ChronoForms Forms Manager and you'll notice that the...

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