Mambot documentation

Two things:

1. This site is painfully slow. It's not my connection, but I'm waiting five minutes or more for pages to appear.

2. I've installed the mambot. The confirmation message tells me what tags I'm to use to include the form on a content page, but if I don't write that down, where do I find the code? I sincerely appreciate this component, but the lack of documentation for it is utterly maddening!

For instance, here's the documentation for using the mambot:

Download the ChronoForms mambot from the download page here, make sure it is installed and published on your site, create your form as usual, then insert There is no form with this name, Please check the url and the form management in the content page where you want the form to appear.

Huh?!!! What does this mean?!!

Please keep in mind that this component is being used by people who are Joomla beginners and not coders.

So, please, what are the tags I need to place in the content pages to make my form appear?

Hi randy270,

I apologise on Max's behalf, for the site. I have no idea what is making it so slow in the last few of days. Last time this happened there were some problems with the forum but upgrading the software seemed to fix that until this week.

The cryptic message is a side effect of the forum upgrade as it changed the parsing of all the old messages and allowed mambots into the forums. If you tell me where you found that I'll fix it. Meanwhile here are the instructions from the download page.

Bob

Thanks for the quick reply. I found that documentation in the mambot FAQ. I figured from the syntax that it was a coding issue, but I'm pulling my hair (or what's left of it) out trying to find an answer to a basic question.

Again, thanks for the great piece of software.

Hi randy,

Did you find the answer to the basic question? Or are you still pulling hair? The easiest thing to do is to post the question here. I'll answer if I can.

Bob

Hi, yes, I did finally figure it out thanks to your help. There was one other thing, though, that was omitted from the instructions. You also need to go into the Plugin Manager and enable chronocontact. It was not enabled by default.

From a previous question, yes, my install issues for the mambot were solved by changing the permissions on the entire Joomla directory and its contents to 777. Once Installed, I changed permissions back to 755, but this made me nervous because I don't know if every folder and file in the directory is supposed to have that permission setting.