Can I use chronoforms for the joomla user details form?

Hey Guys,

I have totally fallen in love with chronoforms! I recommend it to everyone : )

I was wondering if I can use chronoforms for the user details form in Joomla 1.5?
Is that what the "Profile plugin" is all about ?

Thanks,

Hi Samoht,

Thank you! what should the user details page in joomla do ?

Max

Hi Max,

Basically it is the default place for Registered users to see/update their profile information.
The Joomla default form allows for some site control ( like choosing which editor you want to use if you have publisher rights etc ) But I don't really need those things. I want to use chronoforms because I want some flexibility in the future with the profile pages. Maybe have a tabbed form to handle different aspects of the users account. For example, one tab would handle personal info and another tab would handle business info.

I guess I don't need to hack joomla core to do this - but just set up a chronoform that pulls from the correct tables?

Hi samoht,

If the profile info is in a single table like jos_users you could connect a form up using the DB Connectivity tab. If you have supplementary tables then it gets a bit more complicated.

Bob

well, there will definitely be more than one table.

But I just realized that I can use the Mambot to insert cf forms into content pages - so I can create each form I need and construct my users profile / account pages via joomla's normal front end (but restricting access to "registered" users). To simplify I could have and entire "users" menu that navigated between these pages instead of one tabbed form. I think I just over complicated the thing in my mind.

Thanks for all you help! - you guys are great!

Hi samoht,

Just a little though - nothing directly to do with ChronoForms - I have successfully used the Jumi module to control page access. You can add a module with no output (I usually put them into the DeBug module position) but that checks the user Object and the page url and redirects if they are in the wrong place.

For example I was working on a site where we wanted new registrants to fill in a 'profile' form - once anyone logs in the Jumi code checks if they have filed a profile and will only let them access the profile form until they have.

Bob