About to buy, can chronoform do this?

Hi all,

I am building a website for a client. I am thinking to use joomla. One of the most important function that the website must be able to do is that, it must allow the customers (users) to fill out relevant fields in the contract (name, DOB, address...) ,not necessary to display the whole contract but rather just fields to be filled. They then press the print button or submit button to get a page with the pre-formated contract with the information just filled in by the users, then the users will print and sign the contract and mail it to my client's office. On the other hand, the contract with the information filled by the users must be save in the database so that the admin and only the admin can do the same thing.

I am just wondering if chronoform is capable of doing this?

I am looking forward to any suggestions that may arise.

Thank you

Hi hommer,

Chronoforms can do all this but after you have the contract page filled with data it may not be possible to print it, may be if we can get some PDF generated with the contract and then the user can open the PDF and print, but this feature is still under development!

Cheers

Max

Hi Max,

Thanks for the reply. Will I have to manually write php code in order to do that or it can be just easily configured in administrator back-end? Can I use the built-in pdf export function of joomla with chronoform?

Thanks
Leo

Hi Leo,

At the moment you'd have to write code. It might be possible to do something by using the ChronoForms mambot to put the form contents into a content page *and* find a workaround that enabled mambots in the pdf-writer. I've seen people write about this I've never seen it done!

Bob

Hi Greyhead.

Can you show me the codes for that? I mean the one you have you put manually so Chronoform will export those fields on the form into pdf file and attach it to the email?

Thanks in advance.
Diva

Hi Diva,

Sorry, I don't know how to do it myself. I'm going to try another experiment this week and will report back if it succeeds.

Bob

Hi, GreyHead...

I wish you the best of luck. I hope it can be implemented to the core.
Thanks for a great com!

I want to export all submitted information to PDF, is it finished?

Hi bgixjm,

I'm afraid not, I got what I needed working by creating an article that could be output to PDF using PhocaPDF.

Bob

Hi bgixjm,

I'm afraid not, I got what I needed working by creating an article that could be output to PDF using PhocaPDF.

Bob

Very appreciate your immediately replay and it sounds good.
Now I put the submitted information into a table of the database. So how to creating an article when the user submit the information?

Hi bgixjm,

I saved the detailed info into a form database table, then wrote some simple PHP to assemble it into a 'page' format suitable to savew in the jos_content table as an article (basically the page HTML goes into the introtext or fulltext tables and you need some other standard entries). If you download the submit_content form from the Downloads area here you will see most of what is needed in the form code.

Bob

I am the beginner for Joomla and PHP. So whether I can refer to your code?

Hi All,

Have we had any luck with this to date? Pretty keen on getting this form; http://www.ecentricmarketing.com.au/chronocontact/enquire1.html and posting a PDF back to the visitor that filled in the information, possibly with my branding on it.

NB. That the form is over a few pages

Thanks,
Michael