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Ok I have just been getting familiar with the Chrono forms and spent the last day and a half trying to get my forms to work. I am using Joomla 1.5 and have installed Chrono Forms Version 2.5 J1.5 RC1a

I have had several issues with the program and would like to try to get them figured out.

1. Contractions (can't, won't, wasn't, etc) do not go through the form, I have been playing with the html code in the actual form, and I can get it to show up as wasn\'t or won\'t in the e-mail it is sent to, but picky although is not my bag, is a big deal to others.

2. I could not get the image verification to work either. I get errors whenever it is enabled. I opened a thread for that here but have not heard anything about it as of lately.

3. I have decided to use my own Script to process the mail, this will at least take care of my Contractions issue, however the image verification will not work at all, won't even show up, My guess is because I am using an outside script to handle the form.

I like the chrono form and would like to use a licensed version, but I don't want to use half of it or some of it. I would like to know if anyone else has had any of these same issues and how to get them resolved.

Hi a6april,

I have Magic Quotes ON and the contractions pass through my test form OK - though they appear escaped with a slash which isn't very pretty.

I haven't found your thread on imageverification yet - make sure that the diagnostics on the AntiSpam tab say Ok and set 'Type of Image' to 'Without Fonts'.

If you choose to use an external mail script then you need to do the integration with ChronoForms. ChronoForms uses the mosMail function which is about as standard as you can get.

Bob

PS it's hard to help unless you give specific descriptions of the errors. I still don't really now what's happening with contractions or with imageverification.

Hi Bob,
Thanks for the quick response and that was great, I set everything exactly to what you said and whammy, my troubles were over.

I really don't like the \'s in the email but I guess I can live with it unless they say something, then I will have to use another script and tie it in.

I was trying to figure out a way to change the e-mail template to html but not too much of a big deal, do you have a sample code that you insert into the Form Code / Email template:Box.

I was assuming something like:

{subject}<br>
{name} [tab, tab] $whatever the field was called

or am I way off lol.

If I use your sample code here:
Name: <input name="name" value="" type="text"><br />
E-mail: <input name="email" value="" type="text"><br />
{imageverification}<br>
<input name="submit" value="Submit" type="submit">

What would the email template look like?

oops I found the tutorial, Let me give that a try

Thanks Bob, your support here is awesome!!

Thanks again

Hi a6april,

When I have a moment I'll go and try to track down the '/'s - it should just be a question of adding stripslashes() in the right place.

If you want a table form of results email then using the default setting is probably best. You can pretty up the labels using the Field titles tab.

If you want to use a template then anything is possible. It's HTML though so there are no [tab] characters. Most people use the template to create a more narrative form of email like:

"<p>Dear {first_name}, Thank you for joining our site. We see that you have {number_of_children} children and wish you good luck on your holiday to {destination}. The site team.</p>"

Bob

That sounds great I will give that a try. Keep me posted if you can about the slashes in the e-mail, that would be great!

I have one more question, how do you make sure a specific form is under ssl?

Is that as simple as when creating a link to it, use the https or is there something in Chronoforms that makes it refresh to https?

I want to say thank you Bob for getting back to me, I am really impressed with all of the quality help in this forum, It is amazing the lack of it I see around the web, someone asks a question and then get criticized for their question and no real help is offered, just rude comments or 'good luck with that' attitude.

I believe any product is better with good support, and I am very, very, very happy with ChronoForms. My evaluation is way over and can't wait to pay for this product, it is worth every penny!!!

Thanks Bob!!!!

Hi a6april,

Sorry, I've been busy for while.

Max posted a code snippet to check for ssl just a week or two ago. Search through the forums and you should find it.

Glad you find the help useful, thanks for the thanks.

Bob