Hi there,
I bought ChronoForms for an email submit form a couple months ago, it was perfect for the task. I now have another project, this one much more involved, and I'm trying to find the best way to attack it, and whether ChronoForms would be well suited for it???
I need a way for a user to fill out a form that creates entries in the database that include name of document, author, owner of the document, date published, etc, along with a large list of check boxes (characteristics) that that given document could fall under. So, out of 20 possible choices, a given document might fall under 5 of them, for instance.
Once submitted, I need a way to then search against those entries, based on a form that gets filled out, to return those documents & information associated with those documents that meet those criteria. Displayed on the front end. Sorted alphabetically. Preferably by % relevant.
Is this possible with ChronoForms? If it is,any tips on where to get started with something like this? I'm confident I can build the initial forms, but what to do from there to enter into the database / search to pull from the database, I need to resolve.
Any input would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Jonathon
I bought ChronoForms for an email submit form a couple months ago, it was perfect for the task. I now have another project, this one much more involved, and I'm trying to find the best way to attack it, and whether ChronoForms would be well suited for it???
I need a way for a user to fill out a form that creates entries in the database that include name of document, author, owner of the document, date published, etc, along with a large list of check boxes (characteristics) that that given document could fall under. So, out of 20 possible choices, a given document might fall under 5 of them, for instance.
Once submitted, I need a way to then search against those entries, based on a form that gets filled out, to return those documents & information associated with those documents that meet those criteria. Displayed on the front end. Sorted alphabetically. Preferably by % relevant.
Is this possible with ChronoForms? If it is,any tips on where to get started with something like this? I'm confident I can build the initial forms, but what to do from there to enter into the database / search to pull from the database, I need to resolve.
Any input would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Jonathon
Hi Jonathon,
Chronoforms can handle the first part which is submitting the form with some PHP lines of code, the search function is harder to do and will need a good amount of code written to handle and output the search.
Cheers
Max
Chronoforms can handle the first part which is submitting the form with some PHP lines of code, the search function is harder to do and will need a good amount of code written to handle and output the search.
Cheers
Max
Hi Jonathon,
As max sasy the form is the easy part of this project - it might well be worth your time reseraching some of the exisiting MySQL search tools and seeing if something can be adapted for use as a search engine for that part of your project.
Bob
As max sasy the form is the easy part of this project - it might well be worth your time reseraching some of the exisiting MySQL search tools and seeing if something can be adapted for use as a search engine for that part of your project.
Bob
Thanks for the responses guys. When you mention existing MySQL search tools, are you referring to open source code out there, or Joomla extensions for that task? I just bought LQM which could handle the queries, I believe, though I've not used it / read much yet...
Thanks again,
J
Thanks again,
J
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