ChronoForms 
Version
V4.0 (last update on Apr 30, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
288
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
17 December 2006
Editor's Note
- Free version displays a link to the developers site. Upon installation, users will be prompted for an optional validation code to remove the link.
Chronoforms is about 6 years old, today it comes with a huge list of features with a very easy to use drag and drop interface to help you build any type of forms you may need, some of the features included are:
1- Basic forms features like fields creation..etc
2- Emails processing.
3- Data validation on form (client-side - JavaScript) and on server.
4- Data storage and management. (Let's you create a table for your form, save data to this table then manage it later) (ChronoConnectivity provides even more management capabilities)
5- Security with built in Captcha + ReCaptcha support.
6- Different Joomla functions. (Joomla registration forms, User Login or Article submission..etc)
7- Access Control to your forms.
8- Payment Integration (Authorize.net - Paypal Pro - 2Checkout.com)
9- More utilities for common stuff needed like CURL - Email verification - Confirmation pages..etc
10- endless control using an events based system which lets you control everything inside your form if you want to, plus the ability to use PHP code wherever and whenever you need.
Support:
1- Big set of free PDF tutorials covering most of the basic features.
2- Free forums with more than 70,000 forums posts covering almost any question you may think about, We try to answer everybody's questions and comments on our forums or through private emails.
You are welcome to visit us :)
Just...Awesome, really...it puts joomla Bordless!
I was looking for a quick and simple way to put a form on our new Joomla web site. Not knowing what to expect I downloaded and installed without looking at any instructions. I fumbled around with the wizard for a few and I had a form on my site doing exactly what I wanted.
The documentation link here is broken, you may want to go directly to the main website until fixed.
The supporting web site is laid out nice, very professional, I could easily find what I was looking for. The FAQ section was very useful, and I enjoyed the tutorials. I even glanced around the Forums which answered another question I had.
The licensing terms are not bad, quite surprisingly inexpensive. You get the full version, no limits, only if you want to remove the Powered By link at the bottom of the page you need to purchase the inexpensive license.
To sum it up, it’s a great product, good supporting documentation, and they offer great support. Thumbs up all around!
The documentation link here is broken, you may want to go directly to the main website until fixed.
The supporting web site is laid out nice, very professional, I could easily find what I was looking for. The FAQ section was very useful, and I enjoyed the tutorials. I even glanced around the Forums which answered another question I had.
The licensing terms are not bad, quite surprisingly inexpensive. You get the full version, no limits, only if you want to remove the Powered By link at the bottom of the page you need to purchase the inexpensive license.
To sum it up, it’s a great product, good supporting documentation, and they offer great support. Thumbs up all around!
A few things about Chronoforms:
- This is by far the best package I have seen to deal with forms...It is extremely well thought and designed
- The team is so friendly, so knowledgeable and so prompt to help beginner folks like me that I find this one of the key human factors in this difficult world
- Same applies to the entire Joomla community and I'm glad to feel like being part of it at my very low level
Thanks Bob and Max!
Phil
- This is by far the best package I have seen to deal with forms...It is extremely well thought and designed
- The team is so friendly, so knowledgeable and so prompt to help beginner folks like me that I find this one of the key human factors in this difficult world
- Same applies to the entire Joomla community and I'm glad to feel like being part of it at my very low level
Thanks Bob and Max!
Phil
I've tried nearly all of the form mods and this is far and away the best. Fully customizable and easy to use. Granted, it takes some time to figure out, but once you do you'll be making forms in a flash. The captcha support and customization alone make this worth while. I can't imagine a better form creator. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
This form generator offers all the posibilities you have dreamed of. The support is very efficient.
Bravo! (in french)
My needs : sending emails to more than one recepient with attachements, auto answering, no data storage on the server.
Bravo! (in french)
My needs : sending emails to more than one recepient with attachements, auto answering, no data storage on the server.
Owner's reply
Thank you very much for your review, one note is that all your needs already exist! ;)
#1- you can setup any number of emails and each one may has any number of recipients!
#2- you can setup an email with a "Dynamic To" to send to the user who submitted the form!
#3- saving data to database is switchable in the DB connection tab!
ChronoForms has been a huge asset to creating great forms for our client's sites. I love being able to use my own form code. All the flexibility and functionality of Chronoforms has made it so much easier to get my forms working just as I like within my Joomla sites. Great extension! Its a definite keeper in my collection of extensions that I use over and over again from site to site.
One of the Best form management Component one can find for Joomla 1.5.
Thanks and All the Best.
Thanks and All the Best.
I've been using a different form management program (a commercial one) for some time and have always been frustrated with it. This component blows it out of the water. I literally sat, for the first 5 minutes of writing my first form, cursing myself for not finding this software before paying for "the other one". This is good stuff!!!!
Considering I hadn't even touched html code in perhaps a decade, and had never touched php or any other 'newfangled' coding until about five days ago, the fact that I could instantly use Chronoforms to create what the site I'm creating needed says a LOT about "ease of use".
And when I did have a question about whether or not one requested use was even a possibility with the form creator, I had an answer- and step by step tutorial for doing it- in less than a day.
And when I did have a question about whether or not one requested use was even a possibility with the form creator, I had an answer- and step by step tutorial for doing it- in less than a day.
Unfortunately this application is not working for me. I need specific email outcomes generated in order for the email lead to be auto entered into our outlook database in user created forms. Despite it not working for my unique purpose, I have never seen such great support. I used the forums and had quick responses and was even directly contacted by the developer to help assist me and all this without paying a dime... imagine if I actually had a budget to offer these wonderful programmers. Max, thanks a million for your time. I will use Chronoforms in the future and I will be making a donation. I can't imagine why or how this would or couldn't work.
After spending a couple hours in figuring out what does what, this component is truly awesome. Once one figures out how the interface works, its truly a powerful tool. If you are a developer and you want a quick and easy method of creating forms, then this is the tool! You have control over pretty much anything and can do pretty much anything, extremely customizable. If you are a novice web developer, then you dont need to know much to construct a form.
My hat is off to these developers. I have to create a lot of forms under a tight deadline and this tool saved me an all-nighter.
Although, I would make a suggestion. For when you add a form link in any of your menus, there should be some text boxes to allow one to add content to the form in the menu item creation component. I know you can add the HTML manually to the form, but often I am developing Joomla sites and then leaving maintenance to the user... they will struggle if they dont know joomla or web development for that matter.
My hat is off to these developers. I have to create a lot of forms under a tight deadline and this tool saved me an all-nighter.
Although, I would make a suggestion. For when you add a form link in any of your menus, there should be some text boxes to allow one to add content to the form in the menu item creation component. I know you can add the HTML manually to the form, but often I am developing Joomla sites and then leaving maintenance to the user... they will struggle if they dont know joomla or web development for that matter.
Nice component. I enjoy using the Form Wizard and especially the drag-and-drop feature. Although I encountered some minor bugs, I'm impressed with the fast and friendly support of the developers. Nice work...
I have nothing bad to say about this component. Great interface, no bugs and amazing support. There are pdf files available with instructions about basic scenarios, useful and easy to use FAQS and very kind people helping in support forum. I am completely satisfied with this component and it's performance. Well done!
One of the best (if it´s not the best) components ever.
* Just SO useful.
* Simple, complete and friendly.
* Impeccable documentation.
* And an excellent support team.
Upper the level of any commercial component by far.
My sincere congratulations to the support team, and special thanks to Max.
* Just SO useful.
* Simple, complete and friendly.
* Impeccable documentation.
* And an excellent support team.
Upper the level of any commercial component by far.
My sincere congratulations to the support team, and special thanks to Max.
This is by far the best form component I have tried to date (and I have tried both free and commercial ones before this). Extremely easy to use and produces very nice looking and sleek forms (unlike a well known commercial product I have tried previously..)
The only thing that bugged me was a slight glitch in the Wizard form creator. When saving the form, the lightbox would constantly insist on being just below my field of vision, and scrolling down caused it to jump down further, creating an endless white page where you could never quite catch up with the bugger. This, however, only occured on the part where you design your form. Changing to the e-mail page was all it took for the form to be saved.
The only thing that bugged me was a slight glitch in the Wizard form creator. When saving the form, the lightbox would constantly insist on being just below my field of vision, and scrolling down caused it to jump down further, creating an endless white page where you could never quite catch up with the bugger. This, however, only occured on the part where you design your form. Changing to the e-mail page was all it took for the form to be saved.
i initially had some problems with fields not appearing in e-mail output. I went to the support forum and found the answer immediatley! ( be sure to use an underscore instead of a space in the field name ) Max at chronoengine.com answered my question within a half hour, and i was off and running!
Thanks to the team at chrono forms for their GREAT custumer support ( i was really surprised!)
Thanks to the team at chrono forms for their GREAT custumer support ( i was really surprised!)
I have to admit, I still do not know how to use this form's "wizard" function, however, that didn't stop me from using ChronoForms and its functions (I simply created my forms offline and pasted them into the "form code" section of a newly created form).
There's always that initial learning curve (in fact, I ended up uninstalling this component the first time I saw it) but after giving it a "second chance", I was elated with it's functionality and ease of use.
If you need a feedback form on your website, a more complex form with db access or whatnot, this is definitely the component to use.
There's always that initial learning curve (in fact, I ended up uninstalling this component the first time I saw it) but after giving it a "second chance", I was elated with it's functionality and ease of use.
If you need a feedback form on your website, a more complex form with db access or whatnot, this is definitely the component to use.
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