Linking to your form from Joomla! menus

If you don't show the form embedded in an article, or in a module, then you're going to need to give your users some way of navigating to it. We'll look at how to create a menu link to your form.

Getting ready

There's nothing to it really; any form will do, like that same old newsletter form for instance.

How to do it...

1. 1. In the Site Administration area go to Menus | Main Menu, click the New icon, and then the Chrono Forms link.

   
   

2. 2. Add entries to the Title and Alias boxes and, most importantly, to the Form name box in the Parameters (Basic) area on the right. It's easy to overlook this but without it, the menu link won't work.

   Note

   There are other settings further down the left-hand column that let you select the menu — set the position of the menu item in the menu, enable or disable the item, and set how the linked page is to display. These are all standard Joomla! settings.

3. 3. That's all you need. Save the new menu item and test it.

   

How it works...

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