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The ChronoForms 8.0.19 update is now ready for download with different fixes and enhancements.

We have published 2 new updates to ChronoForms v8 along with a content plugin to allow users to display forms in Joomla articles using the {chronoforms8}form-alias{/chronoforms8} shortcode.

New changes and features:

In the latest 8.0.8, 8.0.9 we have added many new features and fixed few issues reported by users on the forums.

This is a list of the new features added:

In the latest 2 releases we have fixed few issues and added some new features, here are the important ones:

The ChronoForms 8.0.12 update is now ready for download with 2 major new features:

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We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the best Joomla forms builder, ChronoForms version 8.

The new version has been written from scratch to support Joomla 4 and PHP 8

ChronoForms v8 is much faster than v6 and v7, it uses less PHP code and pure vanilla JavaScript and CSS for best performance.

We have also improved the admin interface to make it much simpler to build forms.

for the 8.0.0 release we have the following features:

1. Form Debugging to help you analyze the form data and processing.
2. MutiPage forms support, your form can have as many pages as you need.
3. Forms Views and Actions can now be mixed together for better form building capabilities.
4. Multi Field per line support.
5. Text, Textarea, Select and Checkbox fields are available.
6. All fields have valdation and few other advanced features, more to come later.
7. ReCaptcha is available and Honebot is securing all forms by default.
8. Send emails and Display messages using the Message view.
9. Let us know your requests on the forums.

The latest update is both Joomla 3.10 and Joomla 4.x ready, it should also work without issues on PHP 8.0

I apologize for the delay in this update, this delay has been forced on me by some dirty security organizations who claim to be protecting people, liberty and promote peace, mutual coexistence and save lives, while their job in reality is to coerce those who refuse to join them in doing the exact opposite of what they claim to be doing.

We are pleased to announce the stable release of ChronoForms v7, many fixes and changes have been added since the first beta release!

ChronoForms7 simplifies the form creation process, minimizes the configuration options, enhances the forms interface and performance, along with many new added features which we hope that you will enjoy!

Hello Everyone,

We have updated the website to fix different issues we had with the old website including low performance.

After the update, we found that existing login passwords are not working, which was not expected, so please use the "Forgot Password" link to reset your password using your existing email address.

The update has also caused the ChronoForms validation to fail, so we rolled a dummy update for ChronoForms v7 in order to fix this issue, the update just makes the validation compatible with the new website and does not add any new features, another update is planned for the near future.

The forums area has been improved but is not yet 100% functional like the old one, so please give us sometime to fix this.

Please do not hesitate to send us any thoughts or comments.

We are pleased to announce the release of Chronoforms 6.0.22 along with ChronoConnectivity 6.0.9

The new updates applies the following changes:

1. Fixes the update and validation problem for Connectivity!
2. The form designer has few new elements for lists display!
3. Display section is now "Display Form", and it has a display event to manage the form contents.
4. Display view action is added to help rendering views or sections easily.
5. The "Read Data" action has a new alt primary key setting for "Has Many" related tables, you can now connect 2 tables on any 2 fields with the has many relationship.
6. New "Save custom fields" action for Joomla to help save Joomla custom fields data for users, articles or any content.
7. The "Modify data" action is changed to "Data builder", it can now write data to the Data/Var/Session arrays.
8. The "Switch" and "Event switcher" action got some updates, now * can be used as a wildcard option.
9. More demo forms included with how to build instructions.

We have launched a demo website for showing the new ChronoForms 8 features, check it here

We are pleased to announce to the release of ChronoConnectivity v6, create and manage database data with extreme flexibility, read/update/delete data from any number of tables, one to one and one to many relations support, You can also search or sort the data to your liking, filter the data displayed, and export it easily to CSV.

You can also configure your app to upload or download files, and send emails.

Build forms quickly using the built in easy to use form builder.

Control the layout of your app using the different view units available, ChronoConnectivity 6 is using the Semantic UI framework.

Chronoforms v6.1.4 is now available for download, it comes with the following changes:

1. Improved form wizard admin interface.
2. Actions/Views names can now be changed in the form wizard interface.
3. New demo forms.
4. Fixed bugs with redirect message and plugin shortcode call in front article editing.
5. TCPDF remove header/footer settings.
6. Stored blocks are referenced by block id to keep selection when forms are moved to a different site.

Changelog:

• Many fixes and improvements.
• Form designer COPY feature, you can now clone existing elements in the wizard.
• Form designer SAVE feature, you can save existing form elements for later usage, saved elements are considered blocks, they appear in the wizard under the "More" section, and can be used in all forms, you may also backup all blocks and restore them into a different website, in other words you can have your own library of customized form elements to save time when building new forms.

We are pleased to announce the release of Chronoforms v6.0.18, the new release has the following changes:

1. Few minor fixes.
2. Admin interface improvments.
3. You can now use the {chronoforms6}form-alias{/chronoforms6​} shortcode anywhere, either inside an article or another extension, the shortcode will be replaced by the form, additionally the form will be unaffected by the Joomla cache and there is no ndeed to install the Chronoforms6 content plugin.
4. New option added for elastic validation.

A new update for ChronoForms v8 is out today, with the following new features:

1. File field, you can now upload files and attach them to your emails, you can choose the maximum file size, allowed extensions and how the file is named.
2. Hidden field.
3. Password field.
4. Checkboxes group field.
5. Radios group field.

A new update is out today with the following new features/changes:

1. PHP action to run PHP code in your form.
2. Redirect action.
3. Save Data action to save form data to any database table in your Joomla database.
4. Save User action to save new or update existing Joomla users.
5. Security question field to show a form field with something like 1 + 2 = ?
6. Honeypot field to add a honeypot trap for spam bots.
7. General enhancements to the admin interface.

Let us know your comments on the forums.

Changelog:

• Many small improvements and fixes.
• Improved wizard experience, you can now drag new elements to exactly where you want them to land in the designer.
• Chart element, feed the element with data to create nice looking bar charts.
• Google Address field: auto completing address field which can supply the different address components to other form fields.
• 2Checkout Payments gateway integration: accept payments on your form using the 2Checkout payment gateway.
• HoneyPot security test, the simple and quick form spam protection.
• Textarea auto expansion feature, when user types, the textarea auto expands instead of displaying scroll bars for better user experience.
• New chart statistics feature in the stored data view, you can now view statistics per field when you view the table data.
• New wizard events and area minimizing feature, minimize events and sections to save space.
• Zapier service integration.
• Multi element and multi value support in fields events, you can now target multiple elements in one field, and you can reference multiple values.
• Easily load your form into a popup which can be triggered on different events, popups can be triggered using a click on a form element, on page load, after some time or after a specific scroll distance.