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Is it possible to have a full form with name email address phone numbers all that stuff and then have specific fields sent through joomla to populate the fields in the contact page?

For example: A new prospective employee fills out our application. At the end of filling out the application a few fields we have preselected from the form automatically setup a joomla login (we already have that part figured out) and fills in their address, phone, fax and other info into their contact information?

This would really help us out as it would fill in a type of employee directory immediately after they register/apply to work with us.

Hi Gatsu,

Should be no problem, use the Joomla Registration Plugin for the registration bit then set up a DB Connection to the contacts table.

Bob

I'm sorry but how do we do this? I'm pretty clueless as to how to get this started.

Hi Gatsu,

Please check the DB Connection tutorial from the Tutorials tab above. test with a couple of fields on a simple form.

Bob

Perfect! that worked.

One last question. Is there a way to get the user_id that is going to be generated from the joomla! registration plugin?

Each user has their own unique ID how do we get that unique ID to insert into one of our database tables?

Hi Gatsu,

The UserID is available in the Joomla User Object once the Registration is complete. Provided that you have the work-flow sequence correct ChronoForms will add it to the table as cf_user_id. If you update the table before the registration then the cf_user_id will be '0' (the guest id).

Bob

I see thank you, how do we have it so i adds it to the table as id instead of cf_user_id ?

Hi Gatsu,

Look up the id from the Joomla User Object and set a value in the Post array:

<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
JRequest::setVar('id', $user->id);
?>

Bob