How to install plugins

Hello,

I'm trying to change the registration form of my Joomla website with your free version
before purchasing your product.

I installed your component like any other one but I don't understand how to install the plugins.
On my Joomla install I have a folder containing your component and its plugins in the same place.
However, I don't see the plugins anywhere in the admin section of Joomla.

My form is almost ready or at least it seems. I need to learn how to validate email address and password (from 2 entries).

It says somewhere that to connect to Joomla registration you need to set up the plugins correctly.
I don't not have access to plugin configuration right now. How do I do that.

When I tried to install the plugin files, I didn't know in which plugin folder to place them.
That's when I saw that they were in the Chronoform component folder.

Please help.

Thank you,

Laura

Hi Laura,

When you open Chronoforms > Forms management, cant you see the plugins listed on the left hand side ?

Yes I can.
I see them.

Thank you,

Hello again,

Does this mean that the plugins are installed?
I don't seem to be able to make the Joomla registration form change no matter what I do.
This is the most important feature I need and the reason why I want to purchase your form componenent in the
first place.
Do I need to add extra code somewhere?

I took the exact field names of the original Joomla registration form and placed them in the new Chrono forms registration form.
I put the field names in the plugin as required.
I selected the plugin for the form.
I selected yes to activate mambots
In the plugin tab I checked the Joomla registration box. I typed in 0 (i tried without anything also).
It just doesn't work.

Please give clear instructions.

I use Joomla 1.5.6
PHP 5

Thank you,

L.

Hi Laura,

show me your form code, a screenshot of the plugin config, a screenshot of the plugins tab, don't add 0, instead add 1

Regards,

Max

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. It's much appreciated.
You can view images at plugin and plugin Tab

javascript is very basic and needs to be improved but does the main job I want it to do.

if (email.value == '' &&  email.value == '')
return false;
if (password.value == '' &&  password2.value == '')
return false;

I'll PM you the HTML form code though.

Thank you,

L.

Hi Laura,

the fields names are different than those in your HTML, for example the Name field should be "nom", like in your HTML!

Cheers

Max

Hello Max,

Thanks. You're absolutely right.
Indeed I saw there was a problem so I changed but something really odd happened and I'm in trouble. The form has lost its name. It is really odd. I didn't even go to the general tab.

Please help,

L.

I PMed you!

I think this might interest other readers so I've placed your answer here as well.

The reason why the form name was deleted is because I used field name "name" and title "name".
You changed it to name="name1" but as the registration name of first field in the original Joomla registration form is "name", I don't see how this can work? You probably do.

The form name is restored in the admin but if I try to use "name" as a field name it disappears again. I just clicked on edit the form button to edit the field name and edited the form name again to restore the link to the form editing tabs in the admin.

I still have no connection between this form and Joomla registration form. I hope this can be solved.

Thanks,

Laure

Hi Laura,

to connect to the joomla regsitration you need to assign whatever field names in your HTML to the 4 or 5 Joomla registration fields, so if you have a field name in your form called "paris" and you want it to be the name field of the registration, make it like this :

Name Field : paris

Thanks Max,

I finally got it that I could call my Chronoforms form field "bannaCreampie" or anything else and "attach it" to the name field in the Joomla registration plugin.

I though I had to call them exactly the same.

Must I change the other fields so that they don't match Joomla's description also?

Thanks Max,
You give great support.

L.

Hi Laura, you need a username field in your form first, I PMed you!

Yes. Iadded the missing field and all works perfectly.

I was able to register myself but I didn't receive a confirmation letter.
How can I add this feature?

Thanks,

L.

Hi Laura,

this should be by enabling the "send email" in the plugin config, please check and let me know!

Regards,

Max

It works really nicely.

Thanks!

I have one more question though.
Can I make it so that when people register they don't have to enter a user name and that their email addresses become their user name automatically?

Is the profile plugin made so that people can modify their profile with the extra Chronoforms registration form plugin fields?
Do you have a tutorial for this?

Thank you,

L.

Hi Laura,

Can I make it so that when people register they don't have to enter a user name and that their email addresses become their user name automatically?

yes, at the registration plugin configuration, in the username field, write the email field name so both the username an email of Joomla will take your email field value!🙂

Is the profile plugin made so that people can modify their profile with the extra Chronoforms registration form plugin fields?

No, its made only to show them, not to edit them, to edit them you can simply use V3.0 BETA 2 and connect to the extra profile fields table, make your form fields the same as table columns names and load a field with the value of the primary key of the record to update the record!

Regards,
Max

No, its made only to show them, not to edit them, to edit them you can simply use V3.0 BETA 2 and connect to the extra profile fields table, make your form fields the same as table columns names and load a field with the value of the primary key of the record to update the record!

Thanks. I'm not sure I understood much of what you said but I'll try and take a look. I have the V3.0.

L.

Hi Laura,

create a new Chronoform and create a table for it and connect to this table then submit one form and see how it works, you will understand it quickly I'm sure😉