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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Introduction


For most of the recipes so far, we've used the ChronoForms Form Wizard to create our forms. This is quick and simple, and sometimes it just doesn't do what we need. For example, if the form needs a different layout, if we already have a form on an old site, if we need something more complex that takes too long with the Wizard, or if we just enjoy hand-coding HTML. In any of these cases, we need other ways of getting our HTML to work with ChronoForms.

With very few limits, ChronoForms will quite happily accept any HTML from any source; it doesn't have to be created in ChronoForms.

It will help here if we make some distinctions to be clear just what we are talking about as we go forward. A web form has several parts:

  • The Page HTML: All of the HTML code that goes into creating the web page.

  • The Form HTML: Those parts of the HTML that are specifically linked to the way this form works. Mostly these are the form controls — <input>, <select>, <option>, <textarea...

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