Here you'll find a collection of ChronoForms v3 How-to documents. They fall into two broad but overlapping groups:
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The last part of the jigsaw was to configure the form to modify the names of the uploaded files to include the name of the person submitting them so they are easier to retrieve from the upload folder.
For anyone that needs to accomplish the same thing, I just wanted to recommend your fantastic document "Chronoforms Uploaded Files and Folder Names" which is clear, concise, and easy enough for a relative novice (such as my humble self) to follow.
It didn't take long to achieve the desired result. Well worth the very reasonable $8!
bazza_vr6
Some of the documents are free but the more advanced or longer ones are priced at a few dollars.
Here's the current list of documents:
Two ways to use ‘conditional’ CSS: depending on the browser being used; and changing the look of a Thank You page depending on form results.
Moderate difficulty, requires some PHP and CSS
This How-to document links to the recipe ‘Adding your own CSS styling’ in Chapter 3 of the “ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
Important: This document was written for ChronoForms v3 on Joomla! 1.5; it may be possible to adapt the contents to ChronoForms v4 and/or Joomla! 1.6 but this has not been tested.
ChronoForms will allow you to save date for a form to more than one table using the DB Connection tab. You can also add code by hand to connect to a second database
Simple to use; connecting to a second database requires MySQL knowledge
This How-to document links to the recipes ‘Saving Form Data in the Database’ in Chapter 4 and ‘Getting information from a DB table to include in your form’ in Chapter 12 of the “ChronoForms 1.3 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
If our site allows registered users we will often find that we need to link the user to the saved data. This document shows you how to get the User ID and save it into a form input so that it can be saved with the form data.
Simple to use
This How-to document links to Chapter 4, ‘Save form data in the database’ of the “ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
ChronoForms allows you to export records to Excel and CSV formats. This document has some help tips and suggestions and a recipe for handling large exports.
Level: Advanced - requires some PHP and MySQL knowledge.
This How-to document links to the recipe ‘Exporting your results to Excel or a CSV file’ in Chapter 4 of the “ChronoForms 1.3 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
Six pages
Contents: Diagnosing Export problems; Hand-coding special exports; Connecting to another MySQL database; Connecting to a Microsoft Access database; Exporting large files; Specify a character set for an Excel Backup.
ChronoForms has default validation error messages that show in bold red after the input boxes. Sometimes these can break a page layout or just look untidy. This How-to document tells you how to change the formatting.
Level: simple, requires some CSS knowledge.
This How-to document links to the recipe ‘Customising validation error messages’ in Chapter 5 of the “ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
Note: This tutorial is for ChronoForms v3 only.
ChronoForms includes a range of common validations but they don’t meet every need. Because ChronoForms uses the LiveValidation library it’s fairly easy to add custom validations.
Level: advanced, requires some JavaScript knowledge.
This How-to document links to Chapter 5 ‘Form Validation and Security’ of the “ChronoForms 1.3 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
Contents include:
ChronoForms has a submit_content form for you to download. This form will put the results from a simple form into a Joomla! article. This document shows some ways of working with the submit_content form to do more.
Level: moderate, requires some PHP and Joomla knowledge. 10 pages.
This How-to document links to the recipe ‘Using a form to create a Joomla! article’ in Chapter 6 ‘Showing your form in your site’ of the “ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
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ChronoForms provides basic code to handle uploaded files. This document shows you how to extend that basic code to create flexible file names and use different folders.
Level: moderate, requires some PHP and Joomla! knowledge.
This How-to document links to the recipe ‘Renaming files’ in Chapter 8 ‘Uploading files from your forms’ of the “ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
ChronoForms provides basic code to handle uploaded files. This document shows you how to create a ‘list’ display of uploaded images. The techniques can be adapted to work with other kinds of files as well.
This How-to document links to the recipe ‘Accessing uploaded files’ in Chapter 8 ‘Uploading files from your forms’ of the “ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
The ChronoForms Book looks at several ways of creating Form HTML with the help of the ChronoForms Wizard; other sites like Wufoo; and web development tools like Dreamweaver. Sometimes though you just need to sit down and do it the hard way. This document covers the basics of HTML for creating forms.
Level: basic, requires some HTML knowledge.
This How-to document links to Chapter 9 ‘Writing Form HTML’ of the “ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.
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