Need help adapting an old form to ChronoForms

wstover 16 Jun, 2011
Hello, I am just starting to work with ChrnonForms and I need help moving a simple form to my Joomla 1.6 site using ChronoForms. It is form that allows visitors to sign up for our email list. At this point I just need to figure out to send the form information to the cmanage.php file that handles the sign-ups. I read through a couple of the tutorials and I think I have a basic idea of how the software works, but not with this specific function.

Here is the html for the form.


<form name="frmMain" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="http://accounlimited.com/mailinglist/cmanage.php">
<div class="table_wrapper">
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>E-Mail:</td>
<td>
<input type="text" maxlength="100" size="25" name="email">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> First Name: </td>
<td>
<input type="text" maxlength="100" size="25" name="first_name">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Last Name: </td>
<td>
<input type="text" maxlength="100" size="25" name="last_name">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Company:</td>
<td>
<input type="text" maxlength="" size="25" name="custom4">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Zip Code:</td>
<td>
<input type="text" maxlength="100" size="25" name="zipcode">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phone Number:</td>
<td>
<input type="text" maxlength="100" size="25" name="phone">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="rows" width="450" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
</table>
</div>
</form>


Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!
-Wayde
GreyHead 21 Jun, 2011
Hi wstover,

In the Forms Manager click the New icon.

Copy and paste your form HTML - without the <form . . .> and </form> tags. Click the Code tab and paste it into the box.

Click the General tab; give the form a name and save it.

Click the Save icon in the Toolbar.

Click the Wizard Edit link for your form; then the Events tab to the right and drag a Show HTML action from the left hand box into the OnLoad event at the right.

Click Save again, then the Front-end view link. Check that your form looks OK.

Check the tutorials in the download area and add other features as required.

Bob

PS Personally I'd probably recreate the form in the Form Wizard, that may prove simpler in the long term but either approach should work OK.
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