I don’t use Joomla, but sometimes a friend or a colleague of mine ask me some tips. My answer could be: in Drupal it will take 5 minutes.
Since I’m very open-minded, today instead of replying in that awkward way I try to found an alternative to a very useful module for Drupal called Webform. I’ve found a limited but working equivalent for Joomla called JForms.
Tested on:
- Joomla 1.5
- JForms version 0.7 RC1
Installation:
- Install the extension using URL installation and paste the extension link (zip file from link above).
- Create a new form (see the visual howto below) with at least one field, one button, a form title, and a Thank you page (eg. index.php)
- Save the form.
- Create a new menu item from Menu > Main Menu > JForms > Standard forms and fill the Select Form field.
Now that you’ve a form, you can use it from your site (click on menu item written created on (4) ).
If you have to link two forms together (eg. Customers -> Company), you have to use the DBList field.
- Create the Firm form
- Create the Customers form
- On Customers form add a DBList field
DB List field must have these values:
Table name | #__jforms_9c7aa |
Field key | id |
Field value | hcf94 |
Field sort | hcf94 |
- Table name is the table name (mydbprefix_jforms_9c7aa) with the placeholder #__ instead of mydbprefix_.
- Field key is id. The form select value will be set to an univocal id instead of the raw value.
- Field value: value as displayed by the user.
- Field sort: sort the list by this field.
HTML result:
<select style="width: 70px;" id="h4443_14" name="h4443[]"> <option selected="selected" value="1">Barilla</option> <option value="2">Parmalat</option> </select>
When creating a new customer, you’ll see a dropdown with a list of companies from the Company table and the two forms are connected.
See also:
- JForms
- visual howto
- http://jforms.mosmar.com/wiki/0.7/elements/dblist (partially wrong howto)
Thanks. Your Post Help me lot…:D