ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbook

ThisbookisthemissingmanualforcreatingformsonyourJoomla!site.Usingsimpleexamplesthatyoucaneasilyfollowwewillshowyouhowyoucancreateformsofalmostanykind.Mostofthechaptersfocusononetopicstartingwithsimplerecipesfornewusersandthenaddingnewfeaturesthataddmoretotheformbutmayalsorequiremoreknowledgeandexperiencetoimplement.Otherchapterslookinmoredetailataddingspecialfeatures,orcreatingformstoperformparticulartasks.Againtherecipesrangefromthosethatanewusercaneasilyimplementtothosethatwillhelpmoreadvanceddevelopers.Eachrecipeiskeptassimpleaspossibleandsetoutsothatitcanbeeasilyimplementedwiththecodesupplied;andtherecipesarealsoasetofbuildingblocksthatyoucanusetocreatemuchmorecomplexformsusingseveralrecipestobuildyourform.Asfarasspaceallowswehaveexplainedhowthecodeworks,whatfeaturesofJoomlaorofChronoFormsweareusingandwe’veofferedsuggestionsinthe‘There’smore...’sectionsforwaysinwhichthebasicrecipecanbeextendedoradapted.Thecodeexamplesarecompleteandcanbeadaptedbynewuserswiththeminimumofcustomizationortheycanbeasastartingpointfordeveloperswithmorecodingexperiencetobuildonandadapttocreatefullycustomizedformapplications.Thisisapracticalhands-onbookforpeoplewhowanttoaddformstotheirJoomla!site.Whetheryoujustwanttoaddasimplenewslettersign-upformoracomplexmulti-pageinteractiveformyou’llfindhelpfulsuggestionsandrecipesthatwillgetyourformsworking.Manyrecipeswillwork‘out-of-the-box’usingChronoFormsbuilt-incapabilities;othermoreadvancedrecipesrequiresomeknowledgeofJoomla!,HTML,CSS,PHP,MySQLorJavaScript.Thereisworkingcodewitheachrecipethatyoucanadapttomeetyourspecificneeds.