Posting in an Article

Hey 😀

First off, I want to thank you guys for the awesome Joomla Components you are making😀 The Chromo comments and the Chromo Form are awesome😉

Ok, so I am pretty new to Joomla and I am creating my own page. One of the things I want on my site is the ability for both visitors and members to be able to submit articles on my site. So I would like to have a form that has a field for the title of the article, a short description of it, and a text area for the article, author name, url, and captcha. It would also be nice to be able to have bbc code in the form.

Once I have such a form, I would like to make it to post in a section, like for example in a news section. I do not know if this would work but it would be nice to have a option in the form were the submitter can choose in what category it will be posted.

If this would work out then that would be great😀 Another thing, I am not sure if this will work, is to not make the article publish before the admin (I😉 ) confirm it.

I hope I'm not asking to much, but I have been trying for hours and the result has just been major headaches😛

Thanks a lot for your support,

Heckler 8)

Hi Heckler,

Are you using the ChronoForms Submit Content form? It will do some of what you want here - I'm not sure if it fully enables content moderation.

Please notice that there's a small extra fee for this Add-On.

Bob

Hey,

thanks for the reply😀 No, I am not using the submit content application, because I can't find the Chronoforms V3.0 BETA 2 version. And for the extra fee, are you talking about the license? If I get money I might buy it, is the 25 dollars license for all the chrono extensions?

Thanks.

Hi Heckler,

It will run with ChronoForms v3.0 Stable

Max will need to answer the licensing questions.

Bob

K, thanks. I have downloaded the Submit content form, but I am not quite sure on how to use it... :?

Thanks for the support Bob😀

Hi Heckler,

Get V3.0 stable installed, at the forms management area click restore, and then choose the .cfbak file you downloaded!

Chronoforms license is 25$ and is optional, only if you need to remove the link from your forms, there is a licenses page link at the left of the home page, the content submissions form is a paid application for 20$, 7 days trial!

Regards
Max

Hey again😀

Ok so I downloaded the submitcontent file from the forum. When I restore it, it says that the file cannot be restored because it's extension is submitcontent.cfbak.html... Need help.

Scratch the above😉 Just tried using FF3 and when I download the file it donwloads without the .html extension. So I'm guessing it's a Safari problem.

Can you offer multiple categories with the Content Submit and Chronoforms 3.0? Or is it something where you need to submit a specific area.

Hi wolfcreek,

you can add a dropdown to your form with the categories and in the value attribute of each option you can add the correct category id and give the dropdown field the correct name! let me know if this is hard to do and I will show an example!

Regards
Max

Hi Max..
my name is Luca.. I'm Italian.
Can you show me an example? I didn't understand how to select a specific section and category.

Thanks so much..

Hi Luca,

try to use this code in the form HTML to show a categories list:

<?php
    echo JHTML::_('list.category', 'catid', '1');
?>

let me know!

Regards,
Max

Hi Max..

Thanks for the code.. this makes the menu with the dropdown of categories, but the selection has no effect.
The article is included in the one section without having to be assigned a category.

Hi Luca,

I will try this an post a new Submitcontentform to work with the new V3.1 and include the categories/sections dropdowns!

Regards,
Max