Hi Guys,
I've been using Chronoforms for a few days now, since I updated my site from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5 (previously I used CK Forms). I really like the Forms Wizard for easily creating new forms with its drag and drop functionality, top marks for that!
I mainly use forms for competition entries, so there are a few things I wanted to ask to make my life a little easier.
1. I have the form set up and working as I want it to, except I would like the person who submits the form to get an "Thanks for your entry" email to the address they enter on the form. How can I do this?
2. I'm using reCaptcha across the site to protect contact forms, is it possible to use reCaptcha with Chronoforms to protect them (I know CF has its own captcha system, but for the sake of uniformity I'd like to use reCaptcha).
3. I always want to store the forms data and it seems a little long-winded to have to manually create a DB table then allocate the table to the form for each one. Is it possible to set an option to do this automatically? If not, consider it a feature request. :wink:
Thanks for any help, and for a great addition to Joomla. 🙂
I've been using Chronoforms for a few days now, since I updated my site from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5 (previously I used CK Forms). I really like the Forms Wizard for easily creating new forms with its drag and drop functionality, top marks for that!
I mainly use forms for competition entries, so there are a few things I wanted to ask to make my life a little easier.
1. I have the form set up and working as I want it to, except I would like the person who submits the form to get an "Thanks for your entry" email to the address they enter on the form. How can I do this?
2. I'm using reCaptcha across the site to protect contact forms, is it possible to use reCaptcha with Chronoforms to protect them (I know CF has its own captcha system, but for the sake of uniformity I'd like to use reCaptcha).
3. I always want to store the forms data and it seems a little long-winded to have to manually create a DB table then allocate the table to the form for each one. Is it possible to set an option to do this automatically? If not, consider it a feature request. :wink:
Thanks for any help, and for a great addition to Joomla. 🙂
Hi DJBenz,
1) Please see this FAQ
2) Please see this FAQ
3) No, the DB table creation and DB Save action setup are not automated; and probably unlikely to be unless Max has a brainwave. One of the problems is that to do it properly requires understanding more about the form inputs and their types. I'm sorry about that; but it is pretty quick to do manually if you accept the default settings.
Bob
1) Please see this FAQ
2) Please see this FAQ
3) No, the DB table creation and DB Save action setup are not automated; and probably unlikely to be unless Max has a brainwave. One of the problems is that to do it properly requires understanding more about the form inputs and their types. I'm sorry about that; but it is pretty quick to do manually if you accept the default settings.
Bob
Thanks for the info. 🙂
For No. 3 I agree it's easy enough, although it's also easy for me to forget and only realise when the entries start coming in. 😀
For No. 3 I agree it's easy enough, although it's also easy for me to forget and only realise when the entries start coming in. 😀
OK, so I finally got round to following the FAQ to set up a user reply through the form. I'm using the easy wizard and I set up Email 2 as the reply, with dynamic Reply-to taken from the input on the form.
However, I've noticed that once I add the user-reply functionality the form stops working completely. No data or emails are submitted, nothing is added to the DB and no reply email is sent. The form does not even carry out the redirect it should, it just returns to the same page the form is on.
The strange thing is, if I test the form with the built-in functionality it reports that it runs through the correct steps as required. Any ideas? 😟
EDIT: Just checked over the other forms on the site and NONE of them are working correctly, even the ones that weren't originally set up with user reply.
EDIT 2: Just set up a brand new form with only Name/email/submit and a redirect and even that isn't working. :o
However, I've noticed that once I add the user-reply functionality the form stops working completely. No data or emails are submitted, nothing is added to the DB and no reply email is sent. The form does not even carry out the redirect it should, it just returns to the same page the form is on.
The strange thing is, if I test the form with the built-in functionality it reports that it runs through the correct steps as required. Any ideas? 😟
EDIT: Just checked over the other forms on the site and NONE of them are working correctly, even the ones that weren't originally set up with user reply.
EDIT 2: Just set up a brand new form with only Name/email/submit and a redirect and even that isn't working. :o
OK, after much messing around and searching, it looks like Joomla caching is affecting the form submission. Given that I really need to use caching it looks like I'm going to have to find another forms component that doesn't give these issues.😟
Hi DJBenz,
I don't think that caching will effect the emails or the normal form submission. You can check with your browser web developer tools.
What will be affected by caching is the Captcha or Security Questions actions as they store really on a current answer key being loaded with the form. I think that ReCaptcha may avoid this but is JavaScript dependent. The Joomla! Security Key checks will also fail if the form is cached.
I'm not certain but that I think that is similarly true for any forms component.
Bob
I don't think that caching will effect the emails or the normal form submission. You can check with your browser web developer tools.
What will be affected by caching is the Captcha or Security Questions actions as they store really on a current answer key being loaded with the form. I think that ReCaptcha may avoid this but is JavaScript dependent. The Joomla! Security Key checks will also fail if the form is cached.
I'm not certain but that I think that is similarly true for any forms component.
Bob
I don't think that caching will effect the emails or the normal form submission. You can check with your browser web developer tools.
Hi Bob, thanks for the speedy response. The caching does indeed affect the form submission, I tried with caching off and everything works fine. Turn it back on and it stops working (with or without Captcha). Using the 'test form' icon everything works OK whether caching is on or off, but that would make sense as the test page wouldn't be cached.
I'm not certain but that I think that is similarly true for any forms component.
I tried JSN Uniforms and that works flawlessly with caching and reCaptcha enabled.
I did find another thread on the forum where a user found that caching affected the function of the form: <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chronoengine.com/forums.html?cont=posts&f=2&t=88688&p=308011">www.chronoengine.com/forums/viewtopic.p ... 8&p=308011</a><!-- w -->
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