BreezingForms: Trinity




Create powerful and ergonomic forms in minutes.
Includes many nice features like file upload progress bar, summary pages, "pay to download", turn fields on/off, effects and more. See videos!
+ NO DOMAIN OR SERVER RESTRICTIONS, NO "MAGIC" EXPIRATION!
+ No extra payment for additional features, it is all-in-one.
+ Ease of use but covers all form aspects
+ Handles small forms to complex form applications
+ Provides some nice user experience
+ Offers 3 form editors - suits everybody's taste
All three modes share the same power but each has its own audience:
* QuickMode:
A form editor for the non-programmer and people who want their forms to be done very quickly but nice looking.
* EasyMode:
A form editor for layout centric form creation. Very powerful but simple in usage. Ideal for designers.
* ClassicMode:
A wysiwyg editor for creating forms. For technicians and fans of FacileForms.
Important features:
* Ajax file uploads with progress bars
* Turn fields on/off conditionally
* Maxxlength for textareas including "chars left" display
* Summary item: Create summary pages quickly (including calculations if you want)
* Integrator - Use your forms to integrate with other extensions
* User Editable Forms
* 18 and counting form items (from simple input to captcha items)
* Multipage forms
* Built-in PayPal and Direct Payment (Sofortüberweisung)
* Built-in Captcha system (updated in build 727)
* Works perfectly with Jollom: http://www.crosstec.de/jollom-spam-protection.html
* Built-in calendar item
* Many pre-defined validations and actions
* Custom scripting
* Unlimited reply-to fields
* Reply-to files: attach files from your server to reply-to addresses
* Reply-to for select lists
* Reply-to addresses as sender addresses
* Custom mail subjects
* File attachments from upload fields for admin and user mails
* Multiple recipients for the admin notification mails (themeable)
* User data is shown in the email notifications
* Database storage of all submitted data
* CSV & XML Creation: Export submissions data into CSV or XML
* Full Joomfish 2.0 Support for the classic mode
* Documentation and tutorial videos
* Frequently updated
* Fast & effective support (free 4 all + paid tickets for urgent cases)
- This extension requires registration to download.
Thanks Markus, I appreciate all the hard work you have put in on this project to make it a great solution.
BreezingForms was initially frustrating (and I've been creating forms for many years) and I was about to give up, but I was frustrated even more with the other forms so I persisted with Breezing and am glad I did. It now easily does what I want (I only use the Quickmode, I'm not sure about the other modes).
I would not have made this breakthrough without sending questions to Markus.
And support is very quick and helpful! Thanks to Markus.
Now, that is not to say this is not a very impressive extension. It does do most everything it claims and does so very well. However, there are some pretty glaring bugs that you will have to work through and some functionality I was stunned to find missing. Basically, it is well worth the money paid but sometimes money isn't the issue but instead time is. For me time was more the important factor and I don't think many of the reviews on here prepared me for the extra time I would have to spend working around bugs.
First, with QuickMode some minor yet essential CSS fixes were necessary to get it to display as it was clearly intended to. I'm not talking about customization, I'm talking about straight up CSS mistakes that caused clearly unintended display issues. The fixes, once discovered, were very small and subtle ones such as changing an element's display property to block and setting margin-bottom properties. Once these fixes were made, and they should be part of the core package, everything displayed beautifully.
Also, the editor in the backend will often and unpredictably either not saved intro content (it will pop up as if nothing was ever entered) or not open with the editor pane at all. Sometimes its just a matter of refreshing the page and trying again to get it to work.
The Flash file upload option did not work for me as it generated errors and you could not remove a file selection once made. I ended up not using the Flash option.
Another thing I was stunned to find was the lack of validation options. You would think a phone number validation script would be a standard and included with the package. How about a Zip Code validation? Or even a numbers only validation to ensure no characters/letters were entered. Now, there is an option to enter your own validation scripts but I could find little to no resources on how to do this through the application. This is where I will probably have to lean on their support, but if it were just documented I wouldn't have to =0
One more issue is working in the backend can be INCREDIBLY slow at times. Sometimes, and I counted, saving the form changes could take up to 30-40 seconds. I've never seen that with any other extension.
There were plenty of other small bugs BUT, the fact is that this is a very impressive application overall and for every little thing that was not thought of there are about 10 great examples of things that WERE thought of.
So, I write this review to give a future user some realistic expectations and to let them know that it is not a flawless application as many of the other reviews might suggest it is. That having been said, the application does do everything it claims even if in some cases it takes a little arm twisting.
All in all...thanks for a great extension, it really saved my ass in having to deploy a solution in about a week's time.
Hi,
first thanks for the review.
In short you had these problems:
- Flash upload: Definetly file permission issues on your server (maybe wrong ownership). No script can handle that but problems like this can solved contacting your host.
- "One more issue is working in the backend can be INCREDIBLY slow at times":
Checked your internet connection? Especially the backend is really fast. We put A LOT of work into it. That's why it called "QuickMode" ;)
- "Also, the editor in the backend will often and unpredictably either not saved intro content":
FCK has currently a bug that causes this sometimes, I suggest to use tinymce or jce until it is fixed (unfortunately we couldn't workaround it like we did for JCE).
We will look for the CSS but it should be already ok, maybe it was just a matter of taste you were refering to?
Regards,
Markus
Very happy with this. It's a lovely 'toy' to play with the interfaces and it does the job perfectly. This is what paid extensions should be like - better than expected.
The component itself is really feature- packed. It has so many options I haven't even discovered yet.... but its easy enough to make forms very quickly.
I've tried most of the other form components and finally found this one. Now I won't use any other.
Cheers Markus
thumbs up !
Highly recommended!
Most of what I need is working out of the box or can be extended. Other plugins can't do that. Thumbs up, highly recommended!
The support for questions and issues is wonderful, Markus really has put his heart and soul into this product and it shows. There is a minor learning curve to make sure you understand how all the functions work to get the most from the product, and to assist, you have his web site with video and written tutorials and also his forum.
If you are looking for a Form generator that works well and has heaps in reserve, this is it.
all in one im happy about this extension!
very good support - what do i need more!?
Breezing forms has allowed me to create a truly powerful and beautiful form for my site. Without Breezing Forms it would have taken me SO much longer. A MUST HAVE for all Joomla Developers!








