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This person claims that 99% of all reviewers are liars and he is writing the truth?
We know THIS IS A FAKE REVIEW just to down rate Proforms.

Just a small note to the “reviewer”: We have software which can detect and compare reviews by the style of language and the writing style.
After we will have localized the cheater (s)he will have nothing more to laugh ;)

WHY A FAKE REVIEW?

1.)Almost all of our reviewers (99%) leave a name which shows us from whom the review is. Not this one.

2.)The username could be found neither in our customer database, nor in our ticket system. Not even parts did match on any customer of us.

3.) The username or any further interpretation of the username couldn’t be found in our email correspondences of the last 2 years. There were no topics matching to the “review”.

4.) We hadn’t even one user which was not satisfied in the last 2 months.

5.) The very first thing a real customer does is to open a ticket and ask us until the problem is solved. As already mentioned no matching names in the ticket system and no matching topics in the ticket system.

6.) There is a full documented PDF handbook of Proforms for free.
Even if this would be a real user and, let’s say be “handicapped”, he/she could read the manual and would be able to understand everything within a day.

7.) Please note that the review doesn’t point any special functional issues. This is because the “reviewer” doesn’t use and thereby doesn’t know the software.

Thank you for the review.
But we can not accept the “Great for Beginners” statement.

If you are advanced enough to write own code and want to alter the views of a component you don’t need a form component at all. You can write your own form extension.

A form component is made for people who like to create a form easily via user interface.
You can also create complex forms with Proforms but need to follow our software design and logic.

♥ Why does Proforms not use Joomla MVC?
Because the Joomla MVC is not enough to cover the complex functions of Proforms.
If we would use the MVC the view would have a single command which is not the role of a view. It doesn’t make sense for us to use the Joomla MVC.

♥ Why does Proforms have a table structure?
The table structure is the best way to structure the layout without overhead.
It also helps to fit the layout in many “difficult” Joomla templates. The “tableless layout” philosophy is obsolete since the browser- and search engine technologies have been improved significantly.

♥ “…which makes it almost impossible to customize the look and feel and add anything AJAX-y - jQuery, etc.”

So, how can we? We use JavaScript validation and other AJAX techniques by default and it works like a charm. E.g. the registration app does use an eyecandy AJAX interface for checking information.
The fact that we use dojo framework, allows conflictless working together with all other JS frameworks. If you have problems to include jQuery than you have a conflict with Mootools or another pre-installed JS framework but not with dojo.

MVC is not a dogma. Special technologies require special software design patterns.
If you insist on MVC feel free to use one of all the other excellent form extensions on JED.
If you like to use Proforms with all of its benefits you need to learn Proforms’ software architecture, when you like altering the source code.

The reason why over 140000 sites are using Proforms is not buried in the fact that “cracks” can alter the software as desired, but that also designers and beginners are capable to customize it to their needs.

Proforms will always focus on the best possible usability and security.