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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

Using a form to create a Joomla! article


Surprisingly for a form application ChronoForms doesn't come with a big stock of forms. Over the years we have learnt that almost every user has a different set of needs and most of the common forms are easily created with the Form Wizard.

One that does come up quite frequently is the wish to take the information submitted in a form and use it to create a Joomla! article to be published on the site. For this, there is a form available.

Getting ready

This time we don't need anything special.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Go to the ChronoEngine.com Downloads area and navigate to ChronoForms | ChronoForms Applications and download the submitcontent.cfbak file.

    Note

    Notice that the file comes with a warning: Pay Attention, misconfiguration of the form may put you at the risk of losing your content...! And there's also a request that you pay a small fee if you use the form on a production site. There's no charge if you use it only for testing and development.

  2. 2. Restore...

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