Display contents of form in Joomla content?

Here's a question...

I want to build profile pages for athletes...basically, a page for players with their picture, sport, position, team, height/weight, etc.

Then, when content items include mention of that player, a link to the content could be added to that player's profile page.

My question is this...

Can I use ChronoForms to create the profile? I'm figuring I can...by creating the form with the necessary information.

The problem is that I don't know how to get that information from the database to a static content page.

The closest thing I saw was in the Baseball Component by Fastball Products: http://fastballproductions.com/demo/?PHPSESSID=95e5f54cd1f4a15fc491fce77d73ecc7.

Here's a sample profile:

http://demo.fastballproductions.com/index.php?option=com_fastball&task=player&id=17&Itemid=8

I want my content to be laid out very similar to the above example.

I'll have multiple sports, so I'd need a search function as well.

Any help is appreciated.

Hi share24,

The Profile PlugIn for ChronoForms will do this I think (it's already in the extension).

Basically it lets you design a 'form' that just displays information and use an id code (a player id for you) to tell it which information to pull out of the database.

Bob

Are there any examples on how to do this????

Hi altnetwork,

make a new form, enable the profile plugin in the plugins tab, now open the profile plugin config page and config it and save and that's it!

Cheers,
Max

What is missing?

I made a form, naming the fields identically to the database fields. I configured the profile page plugin for the form and saved it. I made a menu item with a SEF URL like http://www.whatever.com/myform

Linking to the form works, it opens with no fields filled, which is what I expect if I just go there directly.

So I made a page that writes a link like this: http://www.whatever.com/myform?userid=62

When I click on that, the URL is correct and has the userid, but none of the fields in the form are filled-in.

Do I need to add some code to the form inputs like <input name="fieldname" value="<?php echo somephp here ?>">

If so, what goes there?

Is there somewhere all this stuff is documented? Chronoforms *looks* powerful as heck, but I'll be darned if I can figure it out. All the documentation I've found is 3 PDFs that don't explain much beyond the lamest possible form being sent via email. Where are all these tabs in the form manager documented?

Hi jpatti,

Unfortunately we don't have full documentation for every piece, only the forums with previous asked questions!

Do I need to add some code to the form inputs like <input name="fieldname" value="<?php echo somephp here ?>">

Correct, you need :

<input name="fieldname" value="{fieldname}">

this will load the value, actually any field name inside 2 curly brackets will get replaced by the field value assuming you are passing a correct value in the ?userid=98

Regards,
Max