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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

Switching styles with "Transform Form"


The ChronoForms default styling doesn't always suit. So, ChronoForms provides a basic form theming capability. There are only two themes provided — "default" and "theme1".

Getting ready

We're using the same form as in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In the Forms Manager, check the box next to your form name and then click the Transform Form icon in the toolbar.

    You will see a warning that using Transform Form will overwrite any manual changes to the Form HTML and two form images — one for the "default" theme and one for "theme1".

    There's a radio button under each theme, and Preview and Transform & Save buttons at the bottom left.

    The Preview button allows you to see your form with the theme applied. This will not overwrite manual changes; Transform & Save will!

    Note

    Warning: Using Transform & Save will recreate the Form HTML from the version that ChronoForms has saved in the database table. Any manual changes that you have made to the...

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