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1. Create your form html with any HTML editor (e.g: Dreamweaver, NVU, etc).
2. Copy the resulting HTML code from your HTML editor.
3. Paste the code into your ChronoForms 'Form Manager' in the backend, choose your settings and save.

Powerful customization features

• Ability to use Javascript and CSS styles code in the form.
• Using PHP code in the form body or when submitted to do some serverside action like saving data or checking some thing.
• Drag and Drop form creation wizard for quick forms creation with no need for any other HTML tools! good solution for those on rush for a simple form or newbies!
• Setup as many emails as you need using a drag and drop board.
• Each email can have any number of TO recipients and any number of CC/BCC recipients.
• Each Email have a full dynamic set of fields,what the user write can change your email recipient and subject!
• Ability to setup an Auto Responder!
• Full control over the email(s) template(s) sent, yes, you can get candy emails created using WYSIWYG editor!
• You can Redirect users after submission to a thank you page OR a login page or another website...etc.
• Define the Submit URL if you are interested, useful for forms migrated from other applications to Joomla CMS.
• Store all your submitted data and view it very easily.
• Ability to View/delete stored data and ability to backup form results into XLS or CSV formats viewable on MS Excel!
• Ability to create DB tables and connect to any table to save or update its records, we can connect to the content table for example and let the submissions become website content!
• Include file upload fields in your form and have it attached/uploaded and add constraints on files uploaded (like max and min size and type).
• Add Captcha imageverification to your form to protect you from Spam.
• Very easy,Quick and Cool looking to setup Javascript fields validation!
• Easy to add Server side validation for those who care for full form security!
• Easy integration with payment systems like PayPal, 2Checkout.com or Authorize.net!
• Plugins support for converting your form to a Joomla registration form or integrating it with Community builder too!
• DEBUG option for checking the form workflow!
• Limit form submissions per second per user session, useful for protecting yourself from 2 submit button clicks!

We are pleased to announce the release of Chronoforms v6, The new version has more features and an easier to use interface, it also gives you more flexibility and control over the form layout and processing.

It's available for download for free in the downloads section.

We have just released the latest update for v8, with the following chages:

1. Sortable forms manager, you can now sort your forms list.
2. Sortable log records, you can now sort your log records by creation date, user id or IP address.
3. Fixed a bug in the Dropdown Multiple setting.
4. Fixed an issue with form alias to force no spaces.
5. Added TinyMCE editor support for email content and message content.
6. Added new Read Data action to read data from the database, the new action has flexible where statement code support unlike v7.

The ChronoForms v7.RC2 is now available for download for both Joomla and WordPress

Some bugs have been fixed and new Features have been added like a new Menu view, new Progress Bar view, Watchman behavior for the form, Translations manager and a new Demo form

The best ChronoForms ever is almost ready, the first release candidate is now available for download on the ChronoForms downloads page.

We are pleased to announce the release of Chronoforms 6.0.23

The new updates applies the following changes:

1. Fixes the table reader issue for the forms manager data links!
2. Fixes some issues in the blocks manager
3. Designer layout enhancements.
4. Some fields have received new events like "empty" or "not empty" or "match regex".
5. Switch action values can now use regular expressions.
6. Blocks can be directly created and edited in the blocks manager, and they can be "referenced" in the form using the new "Stored Block" view/action, so it's possible now to use the same block in multiple forms, any updates to the block will appear in all forms directly.

1. Categories -> Forums -> Topics -> Posts structure.
2. Lock/Stick topics or set forums announcements.
3. Posts reporting and topics manual activation by admins.
4. Posts attachments.
5. Global and distinct forums permissions.

Chronoforms v6.1.0 is now available for download, it comes with the following changes:

1. Upload action path fix.
2. Message action system position fix.
3. Read/Save/Delete data custom condition added.
4. New Form Log Data feature.
5. New Permissions settings.
6. New Classic mode to 6.1 mode converter.

The new v6.0.27 update is out with the new changes listed below:

1. Grid area updates.
2. New Star rating widget.
3. Form elements must be placed inside a "Form area" in new forms.
4. Action - View pairing, events will display views with the same name after they have finished.
5. Database actions settings updates.
6. New Joomla Plugins action.
7. New IF Conditions action.
8. few bugs fixed.

The Chronoforms v6.0.26 update is ready for download, it includes the changes below:

1. New "Container area" with "Reload" feature to reload multiple views at once.
2. Switch/Switch events bug fix.
3. New partitions area settings and fixes
4. Important fix for the languages manager.

Changelog:

• Many fixes and improvements.
• Form designer and frontend performance has been enhanced.
• New divider element in the form designer.
• 6.0.11 has an important fix to the wysiwyg editor, its now disabled by default so that it does not ruin any saved PHP code.

The new v6.0.28 update is out with the new changes listed below:

1. Save data fixes.
2. Events and Views are now pages.
3. New form advanced settings to help setup forms quickly.

Changelog:

• Many improvements and fixes.
• New Signature pad widget.
• New wysiwyg editor support for textarea.
• New load state hidden/disabled for fields.
• Email layout designer.
• Uploaded files names can be dynamically changed.
• curl support for Google reCaptcha.
• New fields events: AJAX Reload and Function calls.
• Dropdowns/Checkboxes/Radios will have their selected option label value included in the email using the auto setting.

Changelog:

• Fixes and improvements.
• More responsive design.
• Notification email designer.

The Chronoforms v6.0.25 is ready for download, it includes the changes below:

1. Improved form designer interface, events can now be closed.
2. New Dropdown settings to allow option text searching and addition.
3. Switch/Switch events bug fix.
4. Extra settings applied for the Message and Segment areas.
5. The "Display section/form" action has been removed and now the new "Form area" should be used instead, you can now have multiple forms inside one form page.
6. New "Switcher area".

Important core fix!

We are proud to announce the release of ChronoConnectivity V4.0, the new version is a complete remake of the old one, almost all the code has been rewritten. The result is a stronger; more modular and easier to use data manager for all Joomla users. We hope that you will like it, and look forward to hear your comments on our forums.

Download from here

ChronoConnectivity V4 requires Chronoforms V4 RC3.2 or later installed.

The main features of the new release are:

1. Multi Database tables support.
2. Admin area or frontend data listing support.
3. Support for all CRUD operations on 1 or more tables, plus supporting basic features like pagination, search, sorting, data filtering...etc.
4. Full users groups access permissions configuration.
5. Tasks Control support using the Chronoforms Events-Actions system*.
6. Auto or Custom data listing to save your time.
7. SEO url support with the basic Joomla SEF support.

Chronoforms v6.1.1 is now available for download, it comes with the following changes:

1. PHP notice generated by some fields has been fixed.
2. New Redirect time delay setting.
3. Actions/Views designer label setting is now available for all views/actions in the wizard under a different button.
4. The Data builder has been updated to v2.
5. New Global AJAX setting.
6. New Page template feature which can be used in the email action to provide a full page template preview.