Why can't I encrypt form code?

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rustyDusty 09 Nov, 2008

While doing some testing on a joomla site I had an earlier version of Chronoforms.
Everything was great, especially the fact that I could use an html encrypter to encrypt the form code.
But now with the 3.0 stable version of Chronoforms I can't seem to encrypt anything!😫
What happens? I'll tell you.
When I paste the encrypted data into the form code window and click apply or save, the page will flash a quick view of the form in plain text and then I am taken directly back to administrator control panel. When I go to Components -->ChronoForms and click the form in question I can see that my form code is unchanged.

In other words the form code window will not take encryption! Is this intentional?
Is there a way for me to encrypt my form code so that casual competitors in my small circle cannot just rip it off by looking at my source code? I know encryption is not fool proof but like I said, I'm just trying to keep the 'monkey see, monkey do' types from jumping on my bandwagon.

Max_admin 10 Nov, 2008

Hi rustyDusty,

I have no idea why this iwll not work, the text box will simply save any data inside, can you give me some of your encoded string to test with ?

Regards
Max

Max
ChronoForms developer...
Did you try ChronoMyAdmin for managing your Joomla database tables ?

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rustyDusty 10 Nov, 2008

ok here is form code.

 <table width="550" border="0" bordercolor="#000000">
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2"><div align="center"><strong>Our animation team is had at work making spots and webisode toons.<br />
        We also provide animation services for events, personal gifts, presentations, trailers, and commercial use.<br />
        Fill out the form below so we can realise your dream.<br />
      </strong></div></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2"><div align="center"></div></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2"><div align="center" class="style1">
          <div align="center"> ANIMATION REQUEST FORM<br />
          </div>
      </div></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2"> </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="152"><strong>Contact name:</strong></td>
      <td width="388"><label>
        <input name="show_title" type="text" id="show_title" size="60" />
      </label></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><strong>Business/Company:</strong></td>
  <td><label>
        <input name="Business_Company" type="text" id="Business_Company" size="60" />
      </label></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><strong>Budget:</strong></td>
      <td><input name="budget" type="text" id="budget" size="0" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2"><label></label>
          <label></label>
          <label></label>
          <label></label>
          <label></label></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  <table width="550" border="0" bordercolor="#000000">
    <tr>
      <td width="60"><strong>Address:</strong></td>
      <td colspan="5"><input name="address1" type="text" id="address1" size="75" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><strong>Address:</strong></td>
      <td colspan="5"><input name="address2" type="text" id="address2" size="75" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><strong>Phone:</strong></td>
      <td width="119"><input name="tel" type="text" id="tel" size="19" /></td>
      <td width="35"><strong>Fax:</strong></td>
      <td width="115"><input name="fax" type="text" id="fax" size="19" /></td>
      <td width="53"><strong>Email:</strong></td>
      <td width="141"><input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="19" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="6"> </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  <p align="left">______________________________________________________</p>

    <table width="550" border="0" bordercolor="#000000">
      <tr>
        <td><label></label>
            <label></label>
            <div align="center"><strong>ANIMATION PARAMETERS</strong></div></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <br />
    <table width="550" border="0" bordercolor="#000000">
      <tr>
        <td colspan="6"><strong>What kind of animation do you need?</strong></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><input type="checkbox" name="2D" id="2D" /></td>
        <td width="501" colspan="5"><div align="left"><strong>2D animation?</strong></div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><input type="checkbox" name="3D" id="3D" /></td>
        <td colspan="5"><div align="left"><strong>3D animation?</strong></div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><input type="checkbox" name="mixed_media" id="mixed_media" /></td>
        <td colspan="5"><strong>Mixed media?</strong></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="6"><strong>What do you want to see animated?</strong></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><input type="checkbox" name="logo_name" id="logo_name" /></td>
        <td colspan="5"><strong>Logo?</strong></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><input type="checkbox" name="mascot" id="mascot" /></td>
        <td colspan="5"><div align="left"><strong>Mascot?</strong></div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><input type="checkbox" name="scenario" id="scenario" /></td>
        <td colspan="5"><strong>Scenario?</strong></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <br />
<table width="550" border="0" bordercolor="#000000">
      <tr>
        <td colspan="5"> </td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <td colspan="5"> </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td width="307"><strong>Do you have a logo and or mascot design?</strong></td>
        <td width="29"><input name="design" type="radio" id="yes" value="yes" /></td>
        <td width="52"><label><strong>yes</strong></label></td>
        <td width="24"><label>
          <input name="design" type="radio" id="no" value="no" />
        </label></td>
        <td width="116"><strong>no</strong></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="5"> </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <br />
    <table width="550" border="0" bordercolor="#000000"><tr><td colspan="2"><strong></strong></td>
        </tr>
  </table>
    <table width="550" border="0" bordercolor="#000000">
      <tr>
        <td width="617"><div align="center"><strong>Briefly describe your logo, mascot and or scenario:</strong></div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td height="48"><div align="center">
            <textarea name="animation_description" cols="75" rows="5" id="comments"></textarea>
        </div></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  <label></label>
<table width="550" border="0" bordercolor="#000000">
  <tr>
    <td height="35" colspan="14"><div align="center"><strong>Animation length?</strong></div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="20" height="21"><strong>
      <label>
      <input name="length" type="radio" id="30_sec" value="30_sec" />
        </label>
    </strong></td>
    <td width="50"><strong>30 sec.</strong></td>
    <td width="20"><input name="length" type="radio" id="60_sec" value="60_sec" /></td>
    <td width="48"><strong>60 sec.</strong></td>
    <td width="22"><input name="length" type="radio" id="5min" value="5min" /></td>
    <td width="43"><strong>5 min.</strong></td>
    <td width="21"><input name="length" type="radio" id="30min" value="30min" /></td>
    <td width="50"><strong>30 min.</strong></td>
    <td width="21"><input name="length" type="radio" id="1hr" value="1hr" /></td>
    <td width="32"><strong>1 hr.</strong></td>
    <td width="22"><input name="length" type="radio" id="1_1_2hrs" value="1_1_2hrs" /></td>
    <td width="77"><strong>1 1/2 hrs.</strong></td>
    <td width="20"><input name="length" type="radio" id="2hrs" value="2hrs" /></td>
    <td width="46"><strong>2 hrs.</strong></td>
  </tr>
    </table>
<br />
  <table width="533" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="1"> </td>
      <td width="376"><div align="left"><strong>Upload and submit any logo/mascot reference materials <br />
        (photos / images) from your PC.</strong></div></td>
      <td width="142"><div align="right" id="upload">
        <input name="Upload" type="file" id="Upload" size="10" />
      </div></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="3"><div align="right">
          <input type="submit" name="Send" id="Send" value="Submit" />
      </div></td>
    </tr>
  </table>

This is what I turn it into using HTMLProtector
[code]
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"></SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT>To display this page you need a browser with JavaScript support.</NOSCRIPT><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"></SCRIPT>[/code]

When I click apply or save I am taken back to the admin page.

I have Load Chronoforms CSS/JS Files? set to yes. But no plugins are active.

Do I need to reinstall Chronoforms? Is the encrypted code too long?

Max_admin 10 Nov, 2008

Hi rustydusty,

I think this happens because of the new code processing done on V3.0, if this works fine on V2.5 then thats the reason!

you may need to inject this code in the chronocontact table to get it working!

Regards
Max

Max
ChronoForms developer...
Did you try ChronoMyAdmin for managing your Joomla database tables ?

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rustyDusty 11 Nov, 2008

This is a nightmare, mostly because of my wrong assumptions.

Chapter 1: I test Chronoforms 2.5 on a test joomla site with encryption and it works.

Chapter 2: When building my live site I install 3.0 stable with the ASSUMPTION that its just as good as 2.5 only better. But 3.0 will not accept encryption code in the form code window.

Chapter 3: So I uninstall 3.0, install 2.5 which does accept encryption assuming that it will work as tested in august. Only now the data is NOT passed through and so when I fill out an encrypted form I get an email with an empty template.

When I replace the encrypted code with html code the email template gives me all the data entered into the form.

So one version does not accept encryption and the other version does not pass the form data to the email template.
Can you make sense of this?

Max_admin 11 Nov, 2008

Hi, try to install V3.0 and put your encrypted code to the chronocontact table in the database directly!

Regards
Max

Max
ChronoForms developer...
Did you try ChronoMyAdmin for managing your Joomla database tables ?

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