Form to post articles

How to allow users to submit articles via a form in Joomla.

Overview

The issue arises because the specific ChronoForms action for saving articles is not available in the newer version.
Use a custom PHP action within the form's submit event to call the appropriate Joomla classes for creating and saving articles.

Answered
ChronoForms v6
M. M.Abletech 19 Jul, 2018
Hi,

is it possible to use chronoform to let a user post throu a form?

I mean the form would have 3 fields:
TITLE
BODY
IMAGE
( the Author will be fetch by user id )
( the Category will be set by default )

And the article would be in draft until admin change status to publish.

I would use a DB READ AND DB SAVE. Any other suggestion?
Has anyone ever do it?

Thanks!
Gr GreyHead 19 Jul, 2018
Answer
Hi M.Abletech,

CFv5 had an action to do this but I think that Joomla have recently changed the way in which article data is saved and there isn't a CFv6 version that I am aware of.

It should be possible using a PHP action in your form Submit event and calling the Joomla classes used to create articles.

Bob
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