Use ChronoForms to create a Joomla Category Filter

I hope someone can help! I've looked through the plugin and documentation and cannot see if this can be done...

I'm hoping to create a form on my Joomla website that does the following:

Dropdown One = Select Countryn (Categories)
Dropdown Two = Select place in above country (Tags)
Checkbox One = Select trip duration (3 options, Tags)
Checkbox Two = Select Option (Yes / No, Tags)

And on Submit, the visitor is shown the results in a new page.

Is this possible with Chronoforms? And if so, can someone provide guidance on how this would be achieved?

Hi MattH72,

The answer is probably Yes. I'm not all that familiar with how Joomla! stores categories or tags but I assume that you can access them using either Database queries or by loading the corresponding Joomla! classes.

What kind of results do you want to display at the end?

Bob

Hi Greyhead

Thanks for the response!

Ok well, in short I want the results to show in a new page, and these would be the combined filters of the selected items from the form...

So if someone selected, say, Cambodia (a category) in Dropdown one, then Angkor Wat (a tag) in DD two, click the 7 nights (another tag) checkbox... The results page would open, and display only articles with those tags under the Cambodia category.

Hi MattH72,

Should work OK but it would need quite a complicated query to find the results you need.

You might look and see if there isn’t an existing extension that will let you search by category and tag.

Bob

Thanks Bob, I'll look for alternative options first - although I have already, to be honest, and had no luck.

If anyone comes across this post and has done this before, please let me know🙂