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I have successfully built a few simple forms using Chronoforms but this next project will be a lot more complex, so I have a few questions (and I would really appreciate your response. TIA)

1) For starters, is it possible? Can I build a survey that also registers a user to the website but only if they want?
The alternative would be to build a simple registration form and then send the "Thank you" pag to the survey proper. Would either work?

2) I am using version 4 on a Joomla 1.5 site. Is that OK? I know there is practically no documentation for it. Should I uninstall and install the older version? Is that even possible?

3) I need to save the data to a database. I know that's possible, but I got stuck there a couple of times. Probably for the lack of documentation or my brain being stuck. Is there a step by step instruction?
From what I understand, I have to crate a new table. can't Chronoform create the table on its own? Is there a SQL statement I can just plug into PhpMyAdmin to create the table? That would be a lot easier.

That's about it. Most important, of course, is the Chronoform ability to do what I need. If any of you think it's either impossible or too hard for a first timer, please let em know.

Thank you so much.

EDIT: of course, as soon as I submit this, I find teh version 4 tutorials. I must have read an old post before this where someone else discusses the lack of documentation for V.4 and I took it as being still the case. Sorry.

Hi conticreative,

I would definitely use ChronoForms v4 as there is no easy upgrade from v3 to v4 should you later decide to switch the site to Joomla! 2.5 (1.5 is now past its 'end of life').

There is documentation for v4 slowly appearing. I'm writing a few more FAQs each week. It does take some time to work out how the new version 'works' well enough to be able to write about is sensibly.

You can build a survey and include an optional registration. I'd probably use my Event Switcher [GH] action to handle the optional part.

You can create a table from an icon in the Forms Manager toolbar in both versions. By default this will include a few standard columns plus columns for all the inputs that ChronoForms can find in the Form HTML. You can add or remove columns and change the default types. You can also save to tables created in PHPMyAdmin or other MySQL tools.

Bob

Thank you Bob, I feel much better now. It must be easy to miss that icon to build the table because it's not like I didn't look. But I have also been in a hurry to try the software.

Thank you again for the replay.