Mad4Joomla Mailforms Popular ComponentLanguage

Mad4Joomla is a very easy-to-use Joomla component for the creation of email forms. Preferences of this product are a better usability, classification in categories, working with templates, helptext to formfields, file upload as attachment, special routing technics to destination email addresses, integration of content in form pages and a very special new captcha technique. Thereby it is possible to build complex and huge contactsystems. Examples: jobs, reservation, contact, donations, polls etc.

Mad4Joomla Mailforms used to be the first form extension focused on usability.
Our aim is to provide a component which is easy-to-use and stable out of the box.
Meanwhile there are nearby 100.000 satisfied users of Mailforms.

For whom is this extension?

- For those who don’t want to care about complex settings and need a quick and easy form creation.
- For companies who are providing Joomla services to customers.
This is an extension which every customer does understand and can create forms within minutes.
- For beginners, advanced users and professionals needing an extension which doesn’t cause trouble and saves time.

The new release will delay aproximately to november or december 2009. We ask for understanding

ENJOY THE MAILFORMS TUTORIAL @ PROJECT PAGE.

If you have problems first read our F.A.Q.'s:
http://www.mad4media.de/mad4joomla-mailforms-faq.html

Caution! Installing a new version causes loss of data!

Dear User, this extension contains a small visible copyright link to us as copyright holder. We consider it as a small thank you. It helps to promote our component. This is common practice on many joomla extension and supported by the FSF. See also the footer of JED.
If you need a copy with hidden link back for any reason, you can request this for a small fee on the project page.
The small cost does not cover our time/development costs, but does help us pay for hosting costs.

We appreciate translations. You can download the seperated language files at the project page.
Just send us your translations and we'll publish them in a new package.

RANK OUR POPULARITY BY THE SUBMITTED LANGUAGES OF OUR USERS:

Included languages:
english , german , traditional chinese , simplified chinese , french , dutch , slovak , portuguese (frontend)
hungarian (frontend) , danish (frontend) , russian (frontend) , spanish (frontend) , italian (frontend)

Included but not published translations:
spanish (frontend and backend), turkish (frontend and backend), japanese (frontend and backend),
polish(frontend),swedish (frontend), italian (backend), croatian (frontend), catalan (frontend)

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I have tried most of the forms components available on Joomla Extensions, both free and commercial. This is the only one where I didn't run into problems. The installation and configuration is simple, the options pretty straightforward, nice-looking interface with good features, like tooltips, choices of file extensions for file attachments and more... and it works!

Without reading any documentation, I was able to play with it for a few minutes and get a basic form soon after. The basics of what you need to know is if you plan to use it for multiple forms in different areas of the site, you might first make categories for the forms. From there, make one or more templates - the templates aren't merely layout elements, they're where you'll set up your input fields. After that, creating the form is merely choosing a title, assigning an email address, which template to use, and what text to display. You use the built-in tools to link your form to whatever menu you want, and you're good to go.

I would consider this one 100% perfect if there were more options for alignment (I notice that I have to make large input fields in order to eliminate large gaps between the question and the answer.) You can do some adjustments, however, out of the box, and folks like myself may be able to do more through CSS. If it had a multiple page option, that would be excellent, too, but as is, this component is a great option, that does not cause any headaches.

I thank the creators for making this available.
bykuettrektal on October 30, 2009
Mad4Joomla is software like it always should be. Namely very intuitive. Using a brand new software can be strange but this feels familiar. Because it is non-commercial I suggest to everyone to try it out.
Two thumbs up.
simple to install, easy to use. great value.
bycwailes on October 27, 2009
Great product, easy to use. It is a real time saver. Will definitely give a donation for further development.
byfonitsua on October 26, 2009
Great forms processor. Easy to use. Needs a few more features (even for a fee), such as branching to another form, etc. -- if the answer is yes/no, then it jumps to a form (section). Otherwise, this is an excellent component. Took me less than an hour to produce a usable return form.
bynl94568 on October 22, 2009
This is a super easy to integrate form tool and exactly what I was looking for. I used it for one of my real estate clients to collect information regarding home values. Fit the bill perfectly.
Easy to use. Pretty straight forward. I set-up a more info request form within 20 minutes. My form had single line user input, and multi-selectable radio click group, a question multi0line and an add attachment area, and captcha submit.
Like said, this component is easy to use and You have lots of possibilities including having Your users load up their own files.
The support You can take for granted, because of prompt reaction (ile {joomla}/administrator/components/com_mad4joomla/config.mad4joomla.php to 0755 (or in my case 777).
Here are my salutations to this supporting team.
Andre
Although mad4joomla undoubtly works like a charm for a simple website, I think it lacks some important features for more complex forms. I would like to have the opportunity to group elements of the form (for example, on the taxation request page for a small taxation office, I'd expect the opportunity to see a different section for the person requestion, as well as the specific house information).
Owner's reply

Thank you for the review. We appreciate constructive criticism.
Neverthenless we don't agree to the term: 'otherwise overated'.
Don't forget that Mad4Joomla Mailforms is a spare time project. Shortly we will publish an additional commercial version with a lot of improvements and extra features. If this lacks also on features you may use the term 'otherwise overated'.
If you compare our project to other non commercial form extensions you will see the vantages of Mailforms.
The huge popularity of Mad4Joomla is based on stable performance and very simple and easy usage.
If we start extending the component with lots of extras there can be two results.
1. If we do this in our spare time, the component will be more complex to use and we will lose our unique feature of being very easy-to-use.
2. If we extract some of our business time to extend our software and publish an additional commercial version, the unique feature "very easy-to-use" will remain.

Please reconsider if you review us as 'overrated' and vote 'average' that you get a stable and probably the most easy-to-use form extension for free!

byfranztuning on October 16, 2009
It is always satisfying if a software doesn't make trouble.This is a good example. Mad4Joomla works almost like an exe file. The only difference is that you must install it with Joomla's native procedure. After installing Mad4Joomla doesn't cause any problems, you don't have to care about languages, the configuration settings are minimized so that nobody will be scared of an information overload. I created a working form in approximately 5 to 7 minutes. This is how all Joomla extensions should be.
I was a little sceptical upon reading the reviews on how easy this component was! I had tried all the other forms here and found them either difficult to understand or the need to hack the Joomla core files. Even after hacking the Joomla core files some of these forms dod not work! So I installed mad4media component and created a form. It took just minutes! Fantastic. No hacking, no coding and the forms look clean with a great captcha at the bottom. A component like this has been needed for a long time and I didn't pay to have their link removed! It deserves to be there!
byHoosier3D on October 13, 2009
I am so thrilled to have found this very useful extension! I was amazed at how easy it was to set up and publish my first form. I didn't even need to read any documentation. I read the steps provided on screen when accessing the component within Joomla and had a working submission form within 20 minutes! WOW!
byricosuave on October 10, 2009
Very easy to handle, instant multi language support means none extra language installing needed. Form creation goes very quick. Simply perfect.
byweby_gr on October 9, 2009
It is easy to use and does all you need. I am very happy you builded this and it worths the copy with hidden copyright link.

Thank again
by3cerd1972 on October 4, 2009
easy to install, use and exstensive clear tutorial in the project hp. Strong reccomand if you search tool to be instant ready to publish

thanks
bymcidea on October 2, 2009
Excellent! Easy to install, easy to use, perfect support!
What I have to say about this extension is not much because there are not many points to discuss. This extension is simply perfect for my needs. But I want also point out the excellent support service. I got telephone support in my native language (German), my problems have been solved in one call. I don't know if this belongs to the fact that I purchased a non copyright copy but even though the support used to be very good.
Overall this has a lot of potential. I found several bugs with it though which means I dont think I will use it.

Editing a form - I had to edit one field at a time and click save to get these to all update. Half the time they didnt so I edited a form about 8 times (then clicked save) to change 4 fields.

Spacing of the form itself on the front end is bad. I had half of the text fields off the side of the page.

Kaptcha just doesnt display any codes so I have to turn this off.

Thats the bad... the good is that I like the way it formats and emails and includes other user data for you. It is quite easy to use and create a forms with.

Overall fairly good, its a shame it has a few bugs though.
byhaitasung on September 28, 2009
This extensions is very good. Had some problems and got fast support. I only can recommend this extension.
I am impressed. I tested 5 form extensions and this is the best. no thoughts over unnecessary things, working like a charm and easy to use. This component is excellent.
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