I was able to create a new form using ChronoForm but when I clicked on the form link I saw it automatically placed the form within the Joomla template. Is there any way I can program ChronoForm so it will give me the option to remove the template? This will be useful for linking to the form within a wrapper (IFrame).
Thanks
Hi Curtis782,
Frankly I've no idea - will the mambot work inside a wrapper? I'm guessing that it doesn't. Maybe Max has a better understanding?
Bob
I'm not quite sure what a mambot is (am a Joomla novice presently). For some reason I believe I saw a reference to a mambot in Joomla 1.0 but since upgrading to 1.5 haven't seen this. In any case this would be a very useful feature for ChronoForms, if it has the ability to create forms without placing the Joomla template around it.
Hi Curtis,
The mambot allows you to put ChronoForms forms inside a normal Joomla content page, there is a version released for 1.5.
Please can you say a bit more about what you are trying to do, I can't quite work out why you'd want to embed Joomla based forms into a static site? Wouldn't it be easier to use Wufoo?
Bob
Hi Bob,
I took a quick look at Wufoo and it appears that service allows people to build forms and have them hosted by Wufoo. I built my form through Dreamweaver and pasted my code in ChronoForms.
When I finished creating my form in ChronoForms, it gave me a link... the form was placed within my Joomla template on a page and I was hoping to have it placed on the right column of my template instead, appearing on all of my Joomla pages (it is a basic 'Get Involved' form where we gather info on users).
It sounds like a mambot is the way to do this if I understand you correctly. I am using 1.5 and understand mambots are now labeled plug-ins... do you know how I can accomplish placing a form using a mambot/plugin inside my content? I am very new to the CMS.
Thanks,
Curtis
I just saw your offered the mambot/plugin in your Downloads section and read the instructions.
"This mambot must have ChronoForms component in order for it to work. You just need to put the name of the form you want to show between : {chronocontact}&{/chronocontact}, Example: {chronocontact}form1{/chronocontact} where form1 is the form name which will be displayed!!"
I tried placing "{chronocontact}form1{/chronocontact}" as the Link in a custom wrapper module and got a page not found error (expected this). Also tried placing this in a custom HTML module but it only displayed "{chronocontact}form1{/chronocontact}" as plain text. I am just looking for a way to place a small form on my template's right column so it appears on all web pages.
Hi Curtis,
In Joomla-speak those blocks in the side columns, the top and the bottom are called 'modules' and, at the moment ChronoForms doesn't work in modules. It's on Max's to-do list and he has spoken about having something 'shortly' but sometimes these simple little add-ons are much more complicated than they look.
Bob