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This FAQs list is built with ChronoConnectivity and ChronoForms linked to Joomla! articles.
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| Are there any video tutorials?
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CFv4 Tutorials |
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There are some video tutorials in the FAQs here. The easiest way to find all of them is to type video into the FAQs 'Search for' box.
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| Asking questions in the forums
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CFv4 Other FAQs |
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This FAQ will help you get the best possible response from the products and the forums. Following these points will help you get the support you need as quickly and easily as possible.
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| Building a basic articles list
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CCv4 Tutorials |
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In this tutorial we will see how to create a basic list 'connection' by listing articles from the core Joomla! content table.
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| Can I set the page title?
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CFv4 Elements and HTML |
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Each Joomla! page has a title that shows in the Browser status bar or tab label. You can change this front-end page title by adding a Custom Code action to the On Load event.
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| Can I use Bootstrap with ChronoForms?
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CFv4 Elements and HTML |
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In Joomla! 3.0 the BootStrap development framework was added to the code base. BootStrap includes CSS for form formatting that give good looking results but it requires some HTML structures and classes that ChronoForms does not use. This FAQ includes a JavaScript snippet that can be applied to a form to use some parts of BootStrap.
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| Can I use ChronoForms with SobiPro?
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CFv4 Tutorials |
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Here a tutorial written by user hcharris: "The following instructions will guide you through integrating Chronoforms and SobiPro to send e-mail to an address in SobiPro using Chronoforms".
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| Do I need to validate ChronoForms? Isn't it free?
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CFv4 Other FAQs |
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The free version of ChronoForms is fully functional except that it adds a "Powered by" strap-line under each form and shows you a pink reminder message in the Forms Manager.
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| Email address domain validation
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CFv4 Validation |
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Q: I need the email field to not accept any email address other than ones that contain @mail.co.za
A: I got the question above today, the solution is easy using Serverside Validation
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| Error: "Could not instantiate mail function"
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CFv4 Emails |
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This error is usually seen when you set up a new site or upgrade an exisiting site. Here are some suggestions for finding the source of the problem.
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| Extending our articles list to include author data
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CCv4 Tutorials |
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In this tutorial we will see how to extend the articles list to include the Author's data from the Joomla! core users table using a One to One relationship (each Article has one Author).
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| Fatal error: Allowed memory size of . . . bytes exhausted
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CFv4 Other FAQs |
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The most common cause of this error is having an Event Loop action which is set to reload its parent event i.e. it's in the On Submit event and is set to reload the On Submit event. It creates a loop that runs until there is no time or memory left.
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| Fatal error: Class 'JModel' not found
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CFv4 Other FAQs |
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Whle this error messags shows up on ChronoForms pages it isn't a ChronoForms bug. Some Joomla! modules use the Joomla! JModel class without loading it - they assume that it will already be loaded.
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| Handling serverside validation errors . . .
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CFv4 Validation |
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By default ChronoForms shows errors from serverside validation at the top of the page and also in a message attached to the input where the error came from.
In this FAQ I've started to collect some notes on different ways of handling errrors.
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| How can I add a ChronoForms Captcha to my custom HTML?
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CFv4 Anti-spam |
GreyHead |
The ChronoForms Captcha is a convenient anti-spam check that can be added simply in the Wizard. If your form done's use the Wizard then you still add a Captcha by including the following HTML.
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| How can I add a colour picker to my form?
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CFv4 Elements and HTML |
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If you need your users to be able to select colours then adding a colour picker which shows them a range of coloured swatches to choose from can be helpful. This FAQ uses one particular MooTools based picker but could be adapted to other similar pickers.
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| How can I add a Confirmation Page to my form?
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CFv4 Actions |
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Sometimes it is useful to be able to ask the user to review and confirm the form data they have input before it is finally submitted. ChronoForms has a Confirmation Page action that can help you do this.
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| How can I add a Custom Client side validation?
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CFv4 Validation |
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You can create a custom validation by adding a validation function in a Load JS action in the ON Load event.
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| How can I add a file upload to my form?
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CFv4 File uploads |
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A file upload will add an input to your form that lets users select a file to be uploaded to the site server. ChronoForms lets you specify the allowable file types and sizes. This video shows you a simple example.
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| How can I add a HoneyPot spam check?
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CFv4 Anti-spam |
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There are several ways of protecting web forms from spam; one of these is the HoneyPot input - that's a form input that isn't visible to a human user but will probably be seen and completed by a spam bot. So if there is a value in the input the form is probably spam. This FAQ tells you how to set up a HoneyPot input.
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| How can I add a new column to a database table or change a column type?
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CFv4 Working with the database |
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ChronoForms v4 has a tool to Create new database tables, but does not include a table editor to change existing tables. Here are some suggestions to help with that:
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