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Here's what I would like to do. I would like a user to be able to use a form of my design to fill out information. The form would then create an article in a specified section/category. That section/category cannot be changed by the user. My question is am I in the right place? I've searched for a while and have not found a clear cut answer to this. I am using Joomla 1.5.3 and I know there is an article submission form already but I want to create a custom one and control where the article goes once submitted. Is ChronoForms the right tool? Thanks in advance for any advice!!

Hi darrell.miley,

I'm sure that this is technically possible and it's been discussed here a couple of times *but* as far as I know no-one has actully built a form that does this - at least, if they have, they haven't posted about it here.

Creating the form is no problem - where it gets tricky is making sure that all the correct entries are then made in the joomla content databse tables for the results to be treated like an article.

Bob

Thanks for the response Bob. I had a feeling I was going to run into that. It's hard to believe that no one has ever customized the article submission process but like you said, they probably just haven't gone "public" with it. How about another idea then. Could ChronoForms submit a post to a phpbb3 forum? I've got an old form and some old php code that did this for me on a phpbb2 forum. Could this be used to basically enter the information on the form, hit submit and have the form post it in a specific forum using a predefined id?

Hi darrell,

I'm afraid that the answer is pretty much the same. Maybe PHPBB is a little tricker as the syntax and structure is outside the Joomla model. But basically it's still a question of writing the right things in the right table columns.

There were some attempts to write to FireBoard forums a few months ago - I recall that they came close to success but I don't think any final answer made it here.

Bob

Ok, thanks for the answers Bob. I've got a few leads on possible ways to do this but like you alluded to, they are fairly technical (hacking core files). I'll be sure and post back if I find any working solution.

Regards

Hi darrell,

I think this is straight forward specially if phpbb is on the same joomla database, I suggest you look at the phpBB forums for some code to insert a new post manually, if you couldn't then find some posts about how to migrate from fireboard to phpBB, they have some script to load fireboard posts and insert it into phpBB so this script will have the right SQL you need, then all you need is to prepare your SQL and add it at Chronoforms onsubmit! no core hacks anywhere!

Cheers

Max