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Extract form data into an article

MacAcer 14 Sep, 2008
Hello,

First of all I'd like to give you a big thumbs up for a great component - got to love itšŸ™‚

Secondly I'd like to ask if it's possible to get the form data that is sent to the preset e-mail to write into an article, thereby making a complete list of all the registered users?

I'm using EventList to display the events, but as their registration function currently lack advanced registration features I decided to complement it by adding a chronoform registration so I may request the data needed for my event registrations. Just informing that a user intend to attend or not, doesn't quite cut it for me.

I'd like all that data to extract into a special access level article so the administrators can get a complete detailed list with all the attending users, rather than having to put all the different mails together to manually make a list out of the collected data.

Something tells me that this shouldn't be too hard to accomplish, but as my coding skills are bad to say the least, I was hoping to get some help from the more enlightened and talented.

Your reply would be much appreciated!
GreyHead 14 Sep, 2008
Hi MacAcer,

This should be fairly easy to do. I'd probably create a new form that read the database table and output it to an html table. (A ChronoForms form can be any html, it doesn't have to have input fields and a submit button.) You can have the form show on a page of it's own or embed it into a content page using the ChronoForms mambot/plugin.

That said, I'm a bit behind with the latest CF features and Max may already have an addon that will show a set of results as a table.

Bob
Max_admin 14 Sep, 2008
Hi MacAcer,

you can use ChronoConnectivity too, take alook at the tutorial from the first page.

Regards

Max
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MacAcer 14 Sep, 2008
Thank you for your anwsers.

I tryed to install ChronoConnectivity - it did say that it was successfully installed, but it doesn't seem to work.

When I navigate to Components > ChronoConnectivity > Connections Management and click "New", the General and Legend tabs are empty it's just the Admin config tab that works.

Attaching additional system info in case you might have use for it to tell why it won't work.

System info:
PHP Built on: Linux pemlinweb03.crystone.net 2.6.9-023stab040.1-smp #1 SMP Mon Jan 15 22:29:34 MSK 2007 i686
Database Version: 4.1.21-Max
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 4.4.7
Web Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
Web Server to PHP interface: apache2handler
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.6 Production/Stable [ Vusani ] 12-August-2008 22:00 GMT
Max_admin 15 Sep, 2008
Hi Macacer,

at the ChronoConnectivity tab there are some patches, or you can install the attached file directly

Regards

Max

[attachment=0]Component.zip[/attachment]
Max, ChronoForms developer
ChronoMyAdmin: Database administration within Joomla, no phpMyAdmin needed.
ChronoMails simplifies Joomla email: newsletters, logging, and custom templates.
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