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Verification works in FF, but in IE8 the page submits with Everything empty. Yes, jQuery is in noConflict mode. Here's the page: http://thecap.carinsurancesecrets.com/index.php/web-form.html

Thanks for the help.😛

Hmm, still no answer. Anyone out there? Free imaginary beer for the next three answers (I figure this being IE, at least two answers won't work, since nothing works that easy with IE. Can't we outlaw that browser? All webmasters should refuse to write for it. We need to get together on this :twisted: )

Hi cybervigilante,

Sorry that you didn't get an instant reply but it was around midnight on a Saturday night :-(

I ran your form through the W3C HTML validator and a couple of possible problems showed up: (a) the form is inside <p> tags and (b) you have some element ids that start with # - neither of these are 'legal' HTML and may be causing problems (there are also some repeated ids which are also not allowed but I don't think those will break the validation).

Bob

Thanks muchly. When my boss, who is the money man, finally gets around to paying me for this, I'll try to insist we buy the program. (He'll hate the ad-link so he probably will. I could hide it but I'm not going to tell him that.😀 )

It was the P tag thing. I actually didn't put them in . A nosy Editor did it for me and every time I deleted them it would put them in again. Nosy Joomla editors can be really annoying - except it's a good editor and I don't want to keep switching to the raw editor since I'll just forget and my high-end editor will screw me up again. Thankfully, replacing the p tags with div tags worked and the editor left them alone. I can see correcting quotes and arrows but I don't know why it insists on putting p tags all over the place.

Hi cybervigilante ,

I agree about the editors - I often end up looking at the HTML they create and wonder how it's possible to add so many unwanted tags. Mind you I also saw an article yesterday that had been copied and pasted in from Microsoft Word . . . .

Bob

Thanks, I just bought you a beer, although from the convenience store, not a rare German Pilsner from a posh Fifth Avenue eatery 😀 (Actually, I prefer Really dark beer - so dark it's almost bread.)

A question about the book. I know it doesn't cover some new stuff in the latest Chronoforms. But my next major concern is databasing, which is too hairy to just to at blind as I usually do :mrgreen: Is it still enough up to speed on that?

Hi cybervigilante,

Thanks for the beer. I would not recommend that you get the CFv3 book to learn about using CFv4 with a database there are just too many differences in the admin interface (though any specific DB queries in the book will still work OK).

Bob

I have it figured out for the basics. Here's a suggestion (or a query if the feature is there but I missed it)

Training someone to access the backend and download a database table in csv format, so they can read it in Excel, strikes me as a dubious proposition. I'd just as soon not have some business guy roaming around the backend, or having to explain navigating the back end to them. Yet they will want the tables, since business types love their Excel 😛 But if you haven't seen it before the Joomla backend is scary 🙂

It would be nice to have a frontend button or link, that you could put in a content article, that would simply show or download a specific table in csv format for Excel - one table per button. That's about as idiot-proof as I can come up with, even for an MBA lightbulb I could limit access with regular Joomla user access control, and not have to explain the backend or have people roaming around in it 🙂

Hi cybervigilante,

If this is CFv4 you can create a front-end form just like this. Use the Authenticator and CSV Export [GH] actions.

I recently created one that also used the Event Switcher [GH] action to allow the designated users to download any of six different tables from the front-end.

Bob