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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

Controlling form access by user group, day, and/or time with the Watchman plug-in


The Watchman plugin was born from a user request for a form that was only "open" in office hours when there was someone around to reply. Hence the name "Watchman" for a gate-keeper of sorts. The code that was written for that user later formed a part of the plug-in.

Along with dates and times, the current version of the plug-in also lets you control access by user group so that you can, for example, limit a form to just Registered Users, or just Super Administrators.

Note

There is a development version that also allows you to block IP addresses, or address blocks, if you wish to. This may be released by the time you read this.

Getting ready

The Watchman plug-in will work with any form and has no special requirements.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In the Forms Manager, check the box by your form Name, then click the name of the plug-in in the left hand column, Watchman in this case, down at the bottom of the list.

  2. 2. The Watchman...

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