Feedback Fields (admin defined)
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- Brandon Parrish
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Can you set up admin defined feedback questions that will go into a database or send back in email format like I have done on my old site?
www.brandonparrish.com/data.html
Thanks,
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- Brandon Parrish
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- GollumX
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There a a number of forms components on the JED. One which I use and vouch for is Chronoforms. Its is a commercial component but with a free version you can test before buying. AFAIK the only difference between the free and commercial versions is that the free one has a link back to the developer.
I also like Performs (noncommercial), but it does not support writing to a db... only sending an email with the responses yto a specified address.
I have also heard good things about Facileforms and RSforms, but never used them myself. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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- Brandon Parrish
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Thanks man, So chronoforms can link to a database? Would this be a program i would just install in joomla like a new module? I am not an expert on JOomla i have only been using it for 2 weeks. Here is what i have so far.
ridersurance.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
If you go to Get a free life quotetab and click the link, those fields are basically what i am looking to do. Right now those fields only go to an email and i manually enter into Outlook(sucks) so i am looking for a more automated version that would go into a database. What database would you recommend with chronoforms?
Thanks for your help!
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- Terp
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Fabrik is my favorite; tried all the rest, but settled on Fabrik given its ability to display tables/grid views with filters, search query, etc, etc, etc.
I am not quite sure why people cut and paste html code into Chronos...why not just cut the form code into a custom module?
Or, instead, why not click 'element'...select drop-down, radio button, checkbox, etc, save, publish form. I'd rather not create the forms, then bring into joomla; I'd rather have them made for me within Joomla.
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- GollumX
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Brandon, you'd have to have basic db knowledge to do it though. Create the necessary tables with the columns and fields you need, then go into chronoforms config and give it the details.
Fabrik sounds good Terp. Isn't that a re-incarnation of Facile forms?.. or is it different altogether?
Terp wrote:I am not quite sure why people cut and paste html code into Chronos...why not just cut the form code into a custom module?IMO Chronoforms just makes things a little easier is all... you can input any php processing you want done before or after the form is filled, add validation and/or other nifty js before or after the form is submitted. Choose where the user is re-directed after the form is submitted. If you grab yourself a free version you'll quickly see wy it can appeal in some cases.
Of course ideally it could all be done in Joomla with point and click ease, and while Performs does that well, it sounds from your description that Fabrik has the whole package. I'll give it a spin with my next website. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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- Terp
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Fabrik 2.0 is in alpha and designed for J1.5.x; however, Fab 1.0.x is pretty polished and runs under J1.0.x.
It does allow you to save form data in the db with a check of the box ("record in database?"). It allows you to add some fancy js or php or css to each and every element/form; table views/grid views of the data (which was my biggest need...want users to enter data into the database and allow other users to query those data, filter, search, etc).
I could go in an create a complex form with drop-down conditioning, hidding/displaying fields based on previous responses, set up a table of data, style it, etc...in about 10 minutes. I create "elements," which are the fields themselves (radio buttons, text fields, dropdowns, checkbox, joins, etc), then I create a "group" and add elements to that group (nice when you have multiple forms...group for "Member Information," which would include name, website, email, etc...and rathter than create the fields again for other forms, simplly create a new group and add the questions you want for that group)...then create the "Form" with a few clicks (link to menu option, save to database, or the option not to save in db for things like 'refer-a-friend' or whatever)...associate the group with the form, a few clicks, and the form is published.
You can also show the data in a table/grid view simply by linking the 'table' to a menu item (or the fabrik module if you want it in a module position)...set parameters for each field...."display in table, add to page title, advanced search by range, filter, dropdown, word search, eval, etc...
I believe it is the old mosForms project on steroids, but too new to Joomla to know what that was.
Yea, I tried Chrono and seemed better than the rest (given my love of data and data-driven sites, the ability to save data in the db and have users query those data was the only requirement I had when deciding to switch from DNN to Joomla), so I spent a couple months trying them all out...there was one that sounded like exactly what I needed (Db query I think the name is), but required a serious command of SQL.
Chronos does do what I needed, sort of, but I didn't like having to fire up Dreamweaver (or google for html form code) and cut and paste all the html over to the extension, then play with regular expressions for the validations (again cutting and pasting them over), etc, etc. But it was more powerful than the rest, in my opinion.
Why I like Fabrik so much is everything is already there for me...I name the field, select the type of field, decide if it's saved in the db (and supports creating the table, groups, elements, etc in a seperate db outside from your Joomla instal), and publish it....table is automatically created, fields added I wanted added to the table display, and all the validations/search/query/filters are all parameters you simply click/check in the backend. I don't cut and paste any code (unless I am dropping js into the "JavaScript" text box that applies it to a particular form or field).
If you do take it for a spin, Gollum, let me know what you think of it. 2.0 is getting there, still some issues to iron out, but loaded with so many more bells and whistles that I get a semi just thinking about it.
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- Terp
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Wow, just saw the size of my last post. I guess I am a total Fabrik fan because what took me about 6 months to accomplish in the asp.net world took me about an hour the first time I tried Fabrik...did exactly what I need and needed no js/php/SQL knowledge whatsoever. </soapbox>
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- GollumX
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With a review like that, it'd be criminal for me not to try it!!
Thanks heaps Terp.
I suggest you copy/paste that into the JED listing as a review... there is no better way to thank a joomla extension developer
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- JEM
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Nothing to do with Joomla but here's what I use.....
www.web-site-scripts.com/
www.web-site-scripts.com/form-maker/index.html - Thanks,
jim
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