After creating a form, the chronoforms Admin panel works fine. But when I create a DB table and connect it to the form, the Admin Panel suddenly has code written all across the top of the panel and the emails that I set up become RED even thought they were GREEN before I connected to the DB.
I've searched the forum and can't find a solution. I've tried turning the DB off and back on; and I also made sure the motools upgrade was disabled. I'm using Chronoforms 3.2 and Joomla 1.5.22. I've attached a pict of the problem.
I've searched the forum and can't find a solution. I've tried turning the DB off and back on; and I also made sure the motools upgrade was disabled. I'm using Chronoforms 3.2 and Joomla 1.5.22. I've attached a pict of the problem.
Hi LoriMo,
I've never seen this symptom with a DB Connection before :-(
I can only guess that there is something odd about the form code that breaks the JavaScript. What you are seeing is a whole of of the ChronoForms script displaying in the browser.
Please take a Form Backup using the icon in the Forms Manager and post it here (as a zipped file) or PM or email it to me and I'll take a closer look.
We have seen a similar symptom before with chunks of code appearing in the admin view. I don't think this is the same; but you could try using a different browser as that sometimes helped with for other users.
Bob
I've never seen this symptom with a DB Connection before :-(
I can only guess that there is something odd about the form code that breaks the JavaScript. What you are seeing is a whole of of the ChronoForms script displaying in the browser.
Please take a Form Backup using the icon in the Forms Manager and post it here (as a zipped file) or PM or email it to me and I'll take a closer look.
We have seen a similar symptom before with chunks of code appearing in the admin view. I don't think this is the same; but you could try using a different browser as that sometimes helped with for other users.
Bob
Greyhead,
Thanks for your quick response. I've attached a backup of the form that caused the problem. Please note, I also opened some of the other forms that I created on the same website. These forms were never connected to databases and the admin panel was working fine but now they all have the same javascript error.
Please note that my problem is twofold: the javascript error and the email functioning not working.
When I test the form, the debugger says that the emails were sent but the only email that gets sent is the email to person who filled out the form. The email that should be sent to the website admin, doesn't always arrive. This may be related to the issue of using the Dynamic From Name and Dynamic From Email. I tried using your forum suggestion to use a static "From Email" in conjunction with a "Dynamic Reply To" but it didn't work either. (I'm not sure that I fully understand how this works).
Thanks for your quick response. I've attached a backup of the form that caused the problem. Please note, I also opened some of the other forms that I created on the same website. These forms were never connected to databases and the admin panel was working fine but now they all have the same javascript error.
Please note that my problem is twofold: the javascript error and the email functioning not working.
When I test the form, the debugger says that the emails were sent but the only email that gets sent is the email to person who filled out the form. The email that should be sent to the website admin, doesn't always arrive. This may be related to the issue of using the Dynamic From Name and Dynamic From Email. I tried using your forum suggestion to use a static "From Email" in conjunction with a "Dynamic Reply To" but it didn't work either. (I'm not sure that I fully understand how this works).
Greyhead,
I also sent you a PM with my back-end info if you need to check on other issues that may be conflicting with my chronoforms installation.
I also sent you a PM with my back-end info if you need to check on other issues that may be conflicting with my chronoforms installation.
Hi LoriMo,
I've just checked the backup from and that seems to be fine. It saves to a database table and sends emails OK (with the fix to the Setup below). And I don't see any errors in the admin area with or without the DB Connection enabled.
I'll log on to your site later and take a look there.
I changed the second Email Setup to this
[attachment=0]23-02-2011 21-27-58.png[/attachment]
Bob
I've just checked the backup from and that seems to be fine. It saves to a database table and sends emails OK (with the fix to the Setup below). And I don't see any errors in the admin area with or without the DB Connection enabled.
I'll log on to your site later and take a look there.
I changed the second Email Setup to this
[attachment=0]23-02-2011 21-27-58.png[/attachment]
Bob
Hi LoriMo,
I logged in - I don't see any problems in the back end using FireFox, Chrome or IE8. Maybe clearing your browser cache will resolve this problem.
I made the changes to the econd Email Setup and I've set "ChronoForms handle my posted arrays:" to 'Yes' so that the checkbox array saves correctly in the database.
I haven't so far received an email though. {It arrived safely a little later.]
Bob
I logged in - I don't see any problems in the back end using FireFox, Chrome or IE8. Maybe clearing your browser cache will resolve this problem.
I made the changes to the econd Email Setup and I've set "ChronoForms handle my posted arrays:" to 'Yes' so that the checkbox array saves correctly in the database.
I haven't so far received an email though. {It arrived safely a little later.]
Bob
Thanks,
I see the changes you made in the email setup and I see that admin panel looks normal in others browsers. I did notice, however, that form is resized in Firefox. It runs off the right side of the page. Do I need to tweak anything in chronoforms code?
I see the changes you made in the email setup and I see that admin panel looks normal in others browsers. I did notice, however, that form is resized in Firefox. It runs off the right side of the page. Do I need to tweak anything in chronoforms code?
Hi LoriMo,
Please tell me more about the form being too wide in FireFox, I don't see any difference?
Bob
Please tell me more about the form being too wide in FireFox, I don't see any difference?
Bob
Greyhead,
I designed the form on a MAC and everything looks good in Safari on both the front and back end. However, some of the visitors to my site are reporting that the form is partially cut off on the right and after they enter information in the "Name of Organization box," (or any box on the right side of the form) the whole form jumps to the left. This is being reported for people using IE8.
If you look at the form code I used, you will see that the top section of the form is comprised of tables. I used the tables because I wanted some of the input boxes to appear horizontally instead of vertically. Could the use of tables cause the problem? If so, should I try using multi holder?
I designed the form on a MAC and everything looks good in Safari on both the front and back end. However, some of the visitors to my site are reporting that the form is partially cut off on the right and after they enter information in the "Name of Organization box," (or any box on the right side of the form) the whole form jumps to the left. This is being reported for people using IE8.
If you look at the form code I used, you will see that the top section of the form is comprised of tables. I used the tables because I wanted some of the input boxes to appear horizontally instead of vertically. Could the use of tables cause the problem? If so, should I try using multi holder?
Hi LoriMo,
I checked in IE8, Chrono and FireFox and don't see any movement.
There is a problem that the validation isn't working. It seems that YooThemes suppress the files from loading for some unknown reason.
I also checked the form without the template, validation is then OK except in IE8 where there is a JavaScript error from the Yoo Shadow box.
I suspect that there might be some movement because the validation adds an empty span after some inputs that affects IE8 but that's impossible to check while the validation is broken.
Bob
I checked in IE8, Chrono and FireFox and don't see any movement.
There is a problem that the validation isn't working. It seems that YooThemes suppress the files from loading for some unknown reason.
I also checked the form without the template, validation is then OK except in IE8 where there is a JavaScript error from the Yoo Shadow box.
I suspect that there might be some movement because the validation adds an empty span after some inputs that affects IE8 but that's impossible to check while the validation is broken.
Bob
Hi LoriMo,
I don't think that there's a fix in reset.css. There's something more radical that the template is doing that means that the files that ChronoForms tries to load are blocked. You can possibly try loading them by adding code to the Form HTML box and see if that does the trick.
There is a CSS fix for the error message, that's been posted a couple of times recently. Hard to be certain that's the problem without seeing the error though.
Bob
I don't think that there's a fix in reset.css. There's something more radical that the template is doing that means that the files that ChronoForms tries to load are blocked. You can possibly try loading them by adding code to the Form HTML box and see if that does the trick.
There is a CSS fix for the error message, that's been posted a couple of times recently. Hard to be certain that's the problem without seeing the error though.
Bob
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