Form posting into forums

There was a thread posted about this a while ago, but it was for Joomla 1.0.12 and Fireboard 1.0.0, and I'm using 1.5.7 and Fireboard 1.0.5RC2, and I don't think there was ever anything further discussed with the thread.

Other thread: http://www.chronoengine.com/forums.html?cont=posts&f=2&t=8124

I've currently installed Chrono Forms, and made a form as well as a formatted output email, but what I need the form to do is submit itself to the forum I have setup on the site. Basically what I'm after is a form which firstly requires the user to be logged in, and then once submitted posted a formatted thread using the variables from the form, into a thread on my forum from the user himself. We have this on our old website but it is SMF, and the form we have is temperamental, but it does submit to a thread formatted and by the logged in form submitter.

I'm personally horrible at writing code from scratch, and I only partly manage by editing and fiddling with code by others, so in this situation I'm fairly stuck.

If anyone can suggest something or help me with this will, I would be very thankful as we are trying to get this site up and running as soon as possible, and this is currently one of our main obstacles.

Kind regards and future thanks
-Taydus

Hi Taydus,

I think you can use the same code as there and add those 2 lines at the top of the code:

global $mainframe;
	$database =& JFactory::getDBO();

remove any global lines too in that old code.

Cheers
Max

Hi Max,

My friend tried inputting the code and tells me that it didn't work. He believes that it is due to the code being for an older version, although he can't tell because he has no proper experience with Joomla.

Although while we would like that to work, we have a way to get around that, but right now our problem is that the form looks rather bad because it is all on the left side of the page.

Here is a link so you can see what I mean:
http://www.anthemwow.com/sev4/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=Sevapp

Is there any way to change that?

Thanks in adanvce.

-Taydus

Hi Taydus,

You can edit the css file style1.css. Look for this around line 146 and change the width value:

.form_element label {
display:block;
float:left;
line-height:22px;
vertical-align:middle;
width:150px;}

Bob