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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

Viewing your saved form results


Once you have set up your form to save results in a database table you will want to look at them to see exactly what is being saved.

Getting ready

Save a few records from the newsletter with the DB Connection enabled that we created in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Go to the back-end Forms Manager view and click on the new link in the Tables Connected column to show the ChronoForms data viewer. This is a basic tool but is good enough for checking the data in simple forms.

  2. 2. Here you can see that three records have been saved in the table. Click Record 1 to open it and you can see the details of that record.

    The last three lines are the data that was entered in the form; the others are from the data that ChronoForms adds (if you leave those bars enabled when you create the table). They are:

    • cf_id: The unique ID for the record in the table

    • uid: A random string that ChronoForms uses for a little added security; sometimes it is useful to identify a record

    • recordtime...

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