Form manager will not save form

Very strange, if the Form Code includes a closing </textarea> the form definition will not save. Clicking Save, Apply, or Cancel does nothing. If I simply remove the text "</textarea>" the buttons start working again. Any suggestions? The code is below:

<h3>Corporate Member</h3>
<p> 
</p>
<p><input type="hidden" value="Corporate" name="MemberType" id="MemberType"></p>
<p>Name<br><input size="80" name="Name" id="Name"></p>
<p>Contact Name<br><input size="80" name="ContactName" id="ContactName"></p>
<p>Contact Position<br><input size="80" value="Broker" name="ContactPosition" id="ContactPosition"></p>
<p>Web Site<br><input size="80" value="http://www.crepso.com" name="WebSite" id="WebSite"></p>
<p>EMail<br><input size="80" name="EMail" id="EMail"></p>
<p>Phone<br><input size="80" name="Phone" id="Phone"></p>
<p>Fax<br><input size="80" name="Fax" id="Fax"></p>
<p>Logo URL<br><input size="80" name="LogoURL" id="LogoURL"></p>
<p>Description<br><textarea name="Description" value="" rows="4" cols="80" id="Description"></textarea></p>
<p><br><br><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"></p>

Hi broberts,

Try putting the type="text" attribute in the text input tags. Everything else looks OK to me.

Bob

I tried adding type="text" as suggested, made no difference.

The problem does seem definitely related to the tag </textarea>. < /textarea> works as far as saving is concerned. As does </ textarea>. </textarea > does not work.

Hi broberts,

I take your code and add it to the Form HTML box and save and its fine, I use FireFox 3.0, did you try with naother browser ?

I've tried it in Firefox 3 and IE 7. Same problem in both.

The form has a redirect url to a ChronoConnect page "index.php?option=com_chronoconnectivity&Itemid=28" and I've edited the AutoGenerate, below. Other than that it's all defaults.

<?php 
	$database =& JFactory::getDBO();

$database->setQuery( "INSERT INTO jos_crepso_members VALUES  (
     '' ,
     '".JRequest::getVar('MemberType', '', 'post', 'string', '')."',
     '".JRequest::getVar('Name','', 'post', 'string', '' )."' ,
     '".JRequest::getVar('ContactName','', 'post', 'string', '' )."' ,
     '".JRequest::getVar('ContactPosition','', 'post', 'string', '' )."' ,
     '".JRequest::getVar('WebSite','', 'post', 'string', '' )."' ,
     '".JRequest::getVar('EMail','', 'post', 'string', '' )."' ,
     '".JRequest::getVar('Phone','', 'post', 'string', '' )."' ,
     '".JRequest::getVar('Fax','', 'post', 'string', '' )."' ,
     '".JRequest::getVar('LogoURL','', 'post', 'string', '' )."' ,
     '".JRequest::getVar('Description','', 'post', 'string', '' )."'); );
if (!$database->query()) {
echo "<script> alert('".$database->getErrorMsg()."'); window.history.go(-1);
</script>
";
}
?>

well, which Chronoforms version is this ?

The filename is ChronoForms_V3.0_J1.5_BETA_1

No, please upgrade to BETA 2, backup your form, uninstall BETA 1 then install BETA 2 then rstore your form, then open your form and save it again, you will need to reconnect to table!

Well that solved the </textarea> save problem. When I try to view the form now I'm getting

Fatal error: Call to a member function setQuery() on a non-object in C:\...\Documents\XAMPP\htdocs\Joomla15\modules\mod_cblogin\mod_cblogin.php on line 147

well, seems nothing with Chronoforms this time, but just curious, are you connected to any tables ? if yes, what are they ?

All the forms are generating this message.

The form we've been discussing is attached to a table I created jos_crepso_members. BTW really like the new DB Connection tab. This table did not originally have recordtime, ipaddress, or uid fields. After the first failure and in looking at the AutoGenerate code I added the fields to the table. (My Joomla! & PHP knowledge is almost non-existent so I had no idea if this was necessary.)

I've also tried creating new forms. One uses the same form definition and table. The other is absolutely basic it simply has

<input type="text" name="Comment" width="100">

hi broberts,

Lets concentrate on your main form, disable the DB connection and don't connect to any tables then reopen the form page, do you still get the same error ?

DB Connection enabled or disabled makes no difference to the message.

Since the message indicated a problem in community builder (cb) code I uninstalled this legacy system and the problem disappears. CB was handling user authentication among other things.

edit: it appears that the cb stuff was causing problems with other chrono problems I was having. I had yet to ask about the fact that I couldn't get the form to actually save anything in the db. Once I uninstalled cb the problem vanished.