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Table of Contents
ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! Site Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Creating a Simple Form
Introduction
Downloading and installing ChronoForms
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
Creating a simple form with the Form Wizard
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Sending the form results by e-mail
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Showing a Thank You
page
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Editing your form with the Wizard Edit
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Redirecting the user to another page
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
Backing up and restoring your forms
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
2. E-mailing Form Results
Introduction
Replying to e-mails
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
Getting your e-mails delivered safely
How to do it...
How it works...
Sending a Thank you
e-mail to the form submitter
How to do it...
Choosing e-mail addresses from a list
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Attaching uploaded files to the e-mail
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
Attaching a standard
file to the e-mail
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a dynamic
subject line using info from the form
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
3. Styling your Form
Introduction
Using ChronoForms default style
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
Switching styles with Transform Form
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Adding your own CSS styling
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Browser sniffing
Conditional CSS
Putting several inputs in one line
Getting ready
How to do it...
Adding your own HTML
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
4. Saving Form Data in the Database
Introduction
Creating a table to save your results and linking your form to it
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Using the options in Create Table
Checkbox groups and multi-select drop-downs
See also
Viewing your saved form results
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
Updating and changing DB Connections
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Removing an input
Reordering columns
Updating the e-mail template
Exporting your results to Excel or a CSV file
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
5. Form Validation and Security
Introduction
Making required
fields
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Specifying the types of input that are allowed — text, numbers, dates, and so on
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Customizing validation error messages
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Adding extra security with server-side
validation of submitted information
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Adding several validations
Combining error messages
Styling error messages
Checking the database in a validation
Filtering form data
See also
Getting the user to confirm their data before submission
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Adding an ImageVerification captcha / anti-spam check
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Debugging when the Captcha image won't display
Debugging when you see a server error
Changing the layout of the ImageVerification element
Adding a refresh
link to the Image Verification element
See also
Adding a reCAPTCHA anti-spam check
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Configuring the reCAPTCHA plug-in
reCAPTCHA keys
reCAPTCHA setup options
Problems with reCAPTCHA
See also
Limiting form access to registered users
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Redirecting the user
Redirecting the user with a message
See also
6. Showing your Form in your Site
Introduction
Including your form in an article using the ChronoForms plugin
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Debugging the ChronoForms plugin
See also
Showing your form on selected pages using the ChronoForms module
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Controlling the display of a module
See also
Linking to your form from Joomla! menus
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more . . .
Passing extra parameters
Creating administrator menu items
Using a form to create a Joomla! article
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Redirecting users to other Joomla! pages after submission
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Showing a message after redirection
Showing a message before redirection
Redirecting conditionally
See also
7. Adding Features to your Form
Introduction
Adding a validated checkbox
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Validating the checkbox server-side
Locking the Submit button until the box is checked
See also
Adding an other
box to a drop-down
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Hiding the whole input
See also
Sending an SMS message on submission
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Signing up to a newsletter service
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Adding a conversion tracking script
Getting ready
How to do it...
Showing a YouTube video
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Adding a barcode to a form e-mail
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Adding a character counter to a textarea
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a double drop-down
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
See also
8. Uploading Files from your Forms
Introduction
Adding a file upload field to your form and setting the allowed types and sizes
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Saving files to different folders
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Renaming files
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Linking files to e-mails
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Resizing and copying image files
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Displaying images in e-mails and articles
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Adding an image to an article
See also
Troubleshooting problems with files
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
9. Writing Form HTML
Introduction
Moving an existing form to ChronoForms
Getting ready
How to do it . . .
How it works...
Moving a form with JavaScript
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Changing the form name in ChronoForms
Fixing conflicts with scripts using jQuery
Loading snippets into the page head
Moving a form with CSS
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Loading snippets into the page head
Loading browser-specific CSS files into the page head
Creating a form with Wufoo
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Changing the Wufoo theme template
Using a form from the Wufoo gallery
Adding validation to a Wufoo Form
Creating a form in Dreamweaver
Getting ready
How to do it...
10. Creating Common Forms
Introduction
Creating a simple newsletter signup
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
Creating a form to link to Acajoom
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Creating a form to publish a Joomla! article
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
Creating a Contact us
form
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Creating an image or document upload form
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Adding a file upload to an existing form
See also
Creating a multi-page form
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
11. Using Form Plug-ins
Introduction
Controlling form access by user group, day, and/or time with the Watchman plug-in
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Creating multi-lingual forms with the Multi-Language plug-in
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Translating form error messages
Translating form images
Translating more complicated code
Including HTML
Including files
Including variables
Translating e-mail templates and thank you pages
Showing and editing saved information with the Profile plug-in
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Registering users with the Joomla! Registration plug-in
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Sending custom e-mails
Displaying custom messages
Creating a silent
registration
Creating a Name
from other field inputs
Creating a Username from other fields
Allowing secret registration
Logging in new members automatically
Saving extra data
Changing user parameters
Creating a PayPal purchase form with the ReDirect plug-in
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
12. Adding Advanced Features
Introduction
Using PHP to create select
dropdowns
Getting ready
How to do it . . .
How it works...
There's more...
Creating numeric options lists
Creating a drop-down from an array
Using Ajax to look up e-mail addresses
Getting ready
How to do it . . .
How it works...
Getting information from a DB table to include in your form
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Show a form in a light-box
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Keeping our options open
Adding PHP to the page
Tracking site information
Getting ready
How to do it...
Controlling e-mails from form inputs
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Disabling e-mails
Changing the attached files
See also
Building a complex multi-page form
Getting ready
How to do it...
See also
Troubleshooting problems with forms
How to do it...
See also
Index
ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! Site Cookbook
ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! Site Cookbook
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Credits
Author
Bob Janes
Reviewers
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Norm Douglas
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About the Author
Bob Janes started programming with punched cards a long time ago. As the Finance Director of a multi-national business, he kept his finger in the IT pie, much to the chagrin of those in corporate IT, and delivered innovative and successful systems projects ranging from foreign exchange to manufacturing.
More recently, he has been able to return to hands-on coding and learned the basics of CMS coding with E-Xoops before turning his hand to Joomla! and WordPress. Bob enjoys learning through answering questions and has made more than 14,000 posts in the ChronoForms forums over the last few years.
Bob divides his time between Brittany and London, and divides his work between coding and coaching — he has Bachelor's degrees in both Mathematics and Psychology and a Master's degree in Organisational Consulting.
I'd like to thank Max who developed ChronoForms, and all the ChronoForms users whose questions made this book possible; my wife, Jane, who puts up with my hours in front of my keyboard; and my father who set me off on this path many years ago.
About the Reviewer
Laurelle Keashly graduated with a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. After graduating, Laurelle moved to the Vancouver, BC metropolitan area where she has done software programming, user interface design, and development team management for embedded communication and PC based accounting systems. Taking some time off to raise a family in the Burnaby, BC area, Laurelle got into website design, development, and support with local non-profit organizations. As her family has grown, her interest in web technologies grew to where she started Keashly.ca Consulting which provides the full spectrum of website development, support, and services with a specialty in Joomla! CMS-based sites. Laurelle is a moderator and an active member of the Joomla! forum and has created and released several Joomla! extensions. Laurelle continues to explore and provide up-to-date web-based services by actively keeping herself aware and supporting other CMS systems besides Joomla! such as Wordpress and Drupal.
Norm Douglas loves technology. He has always built websites from as early as 1997. While researching and trying to develop his own rudimentary CMS from PHP, Norm stumbled upon Mambo, the precursor of Joomla!.
Seeing the benefits not only to him as a developer but also to his clients, Norm immediately set about learning everything he could about PHP, MYSQL, CSS, CMS, and ultimately, Joomla!.
Norm's broad range of IT experience and skills come together to make him an excellent all-round tutor. Not happy with just showing
you how to do x
and y
, Norm will explain concepts to you. His goal is to help as many people as he can become better developers, webmasters, content managers, or just contributors as he is, so that the open source community may grow larger.
He also runs TeachingJoomla.com
, a subscription-based site for Joomla enthusiasts and those that manage their own site. Norm is also behind RedsourceMedia.com and is the lead developer at KeyVision.com.au.
Preface
Joomla! is a fantastic way to create a dynamic CMS. Now, you want to go to the next step and interact with your users. Forms are the way you ask questions and get replies. ChronoForms is the extension that lets you do that and this book tells you how.
From building your first form to creating rich, form-based applications, we will cover the features that ChronoForms offers you in a clear hands-on way. Drawing on three years' daily experience of using ChronoForms and supporting users, there is valuable help for new users and experienced developers alike.
We will take you through form development step-by-step from creating your first form using ChronoForms' built-in drag-and-drop tool, validating user input, emailing the results, saving data in the database, showing the form in your Joomla! site, and much more. Each chapter addresses a topic like validation
or e-mail
and each of the recipes in the chapters address the questions of different users from the beginner's question such as How do I set up an email?
to more advanced questions like using some PHP to create a custom e-mail Subject line. Over 12 chapters and 80 recipes we cover all of the Frequently Asked Questions
that new users and developers have about using ChronoForms. The recipe structure allows you to pick and choose just the solution that you need.
This practical book, packed with easy-to-flow recipes, tips, and tricks, will help you add interactive forms to your sites with the ChronoForms.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Creating a Simple Form: This chapter will teach you how to download and install ChronoForms, create your first form with the drag-and-drop Form Wizard, send the form results by e-mail, customize the e-mail, show a thank-you
page to the user, edit your form with the Wizard Edit, re-direct the user after they submit the form, back up, and restore your forms.
Chapter 2, E-mailing Form Results: This chapter covers sending form result to an administrator, getting your e-mails delivered safely, sending a message to the form user, sending emails to different people depending on the form results, attaching uploaded files to an email, sending a file to the user, and creating an e-mail subject line from the form results.
Chapter 3, Styling your Form: The topics covered use the ChronoForms built-in styles, switching to another form template, adding your own CSS, using the Wizard Edit to put several form inputs in one line, and changing the layout by adding your own HTML.
Chapter 4, Saving Form Data in the Database: The topics covered are creating a database table and linking your form to it, updating and changing database connections, viewing the saved data, and exporting data to Excel or CSV.
Chapter 5, Form Validation and Security: This chapter covers making form fields required with ChronoForms built-in validation, specifying the type of input required, customizing validation messages, adding extra server-side
validation, getting the user to confirm their results, adding a ChronoForms captcha
check to your form, using a ReCaptcha
check instead, and limiting form access to registered users.
Chapter 6, Showing your Form in your Site: This covers showing your form in an article, or on selected pages in a module, linking to your form from a menu, using a form to create an article, and redirecting users to other Joomla! pages.
Chapter 7, Adding Features to your Form: Here we take a look at some ways to use ChronoForms, such as adding a terms and conditions
checkbox, linking an other
box to a select drop-down, sending an SMS message when the form is submitted, signing up to an off-site newsletter service, adding a Google conversion tracking script, showing a YouTube video, adding a barcode to an e-mail, adding a character counter to a textarea input, and creating a double drop-down
where the second changes depending on the first.
Chapter 8, Uploading Files from your Forms: This chapter covers setting up file uploads, choosing where to save files, changing file names, linking flies to emails, resizing and copying uploaded image files, showing uploaded images in articles and emails, and troubleshooting file uploads.
Chapter 9, Writing Form HTML: Moving existing forms to ChronoForms; moving a form that uses JavaScript; and CSS; creating forms in Dreamweaver.
Chapter 10, Creating Common Forms: In this chapter, we create forms for newsletter sign-ups, Contact Us
, link to a Joomla! component like Acajoom, publish an article, image or document upload, and a multi-page form.
Chapter 11, Using Form Plug-ins: This chapter covers using ChronoForms plugins
for extra performance: manage for access by user group or date and time, create multi-lingual forms, show and edit a saved record, register Joomla! users, and create a PayPal payment form.
Chapter 12, Adding Advanced Features: This chapter covers using AJAX with a form, using PHP to create select drop-downs, getting information from the database to use in your form, showing a form in a light box, tracking the page that the form was submitted from, controlling e-mails from form data, building a complex multi-page form, and hints and tips for troubleshooting your forms.
What you need for this book
You will need administrator access to a Joomla! 1.5 installation. In order to run Joomla! 1.5, the minimum requirement is to use a server running PHP 4.3.10, MySQL 3.23, and Apache 1.3 IIS 6.
Some parts of ChronoForms use functionality only available in PHP 5 and we recommend that you use the Joomla! -recommended specifications which are currently: PHP 5.2 or higher; MySQL 4.1 or higher, and Apache 2 or IIS 7.
You will also need to download the the latest release of the ChronoForms extension for Joomla!. Instructions for this are provided in Chapter 1.
Note: ChronoForms makes extensive use of the MooTools JavaScript library. Mootools version 1.1.2 is installed with Joomla!. The latest Joomla! Rrelease includes an option to enable MooTools 1.2.4 -— ChronoForms 3.1 will not run correctly if this option is enabled,.
Who this book is for
This is a practical hands-on book for people who want to add forms to their Joomla! site. Whether you just want to add a simple newsletter sign-up form or a complex multi-page interactive form, you'll find helpful suggestions and recipes that will get your forms working.
Many recipes will work out of the box using ChronoForms built-in capabilities. Other more advanced recipes require some knowledge of Joomla!, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, or JavaScript. There is a working code with each recipe that you can adapt to, to meet your specific needs.
Conventions
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: Message 5 in Section 3 is the $_POST array.
A block of code is set as follows:
$form_id = $MyForm->formrow->id;
$MyUploads =& CFUploads::getInstance($form_id);
$MyUploads->attachments[] = 'images/newsletter.pdf';
?>
When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
if ( !$mainframe->isSite() ) {return;}
function createRangeSelect($label, $name, $start, $end) {
?>
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: Save the form and go to the Admin | Extensions | Module Manager.
Note
Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.
Tip
Tips and tricks appear like this.
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Chapter 1. Creating a Simple Form
In this chapter, we will cover:
Downloading and installing ChronoForms
Creating a simple form with the Form Wizard
Sending the form results by e-mail
Formatting your e-mail
Showing a Thank You
page
Editing your form with the Wizard Edit
Redirecting the user to another page
Backing up and restoring your forms
Introduction
Let's say that we want to add a very simple form to our Joomla! site. Probably the simplest is a newsletter sign-up. We will just collect the user's e-mail address and send the result to the site administrator. Later, in the book we'll be able