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Easy install and I had forms up and running in minutes. I highly recommend Phil's forms.

I have bought several components from Phil Taylor. Joomla Forms is pretty easy to use and after you have done one form you can produce the next in just a few minutes. The key advantage for me in using this is the ability to add submit actions. It would seem pretty standard fair to (a). Save to the databae (b) submit by email and then (c) direct the user to a page elsewhere. I don't know what the limit is on adding these, but it would seem endless.

A great piece of work and you always get personal help from Phil if you need it.

I have bought three different components from Blue Flame (several of each) for use across three different sites. All good.

I tried various non commercial version for a form in joomla but wasn't happy. I paid for Phil's component and works like a dream!! Its absolute paisa vasool (paisa vasool = bang for your buck in Hindi - An Indian language) :)

Thanks Phil, I hope more and more developers make such outstanding products - they are worth it even with the price attached.

I'm fairly new to Joomla! (coming from the design community rather than coding/programming) and tend to look for extensions that are fairly straight forward to install and set up, not to mention get to work. Phil's Joomla Forms fits the bill.

I've looked at all the usual suspects for form creation and been sorely disappointed by many of them. This one however is different – it works!

I did have a small installation issue which turned out to be the fault of my host rather than with Joomla Forms. However, before I discovered the real culprit, I contacted support for Joomla Forms and received some fairly immediate helpful suggestions as to how to fix the problem.

After moving to a more helpful host, the installation and set up of Joomla Forms went smoothly and without a hitch. I had my first form created and working within ten minutes.

For anyone buying this, please take time to view the really helpful videos Phil has posted on his website. These walk you through the process of creating your first form and was the clincher for me buying this. I wish more developers did this.

I did find a small conflict issue with the use of JCE Editor 1.5.1 in conjunction with Joomla Forms. On contacting Phil, I'm assured that this is being corrected and I look forward the update which incidentally I am assured will be free as are future updates once you have bought the product.

Thanks for a great product.

Jon

This is an excellent component. Allowed me to create the contact form I wanted without relying on the contact module of Joomla!.

I had one issue on redirecting after submitting. I emailed Phil and got an immediate response. It was actually a very easy process that I just overlooked.

Support was very quick and the problem was actually mine not the programs.

If you need any forms on your site, it is well worth the small investment Phil asks for. It will save you that much in time the first time you use it.

Great Product & Great idea on reducing the pricing. Made me buy! $9.99 is a great fair price and eliminated me going around looking elsewhere. May have even prevented looking for a hacked copy too. ;) lol Honest but true, I am easily willing to cough up BP$9.99 for more.

Heck, for what I needed to do I could have most likely done within Joomla template coding, but I figured it would take at least 30 minutes to figure it out and your program made it simple and gave me future capabilities! Cheaper than my time....Made it a "No Brainer"!

It's like the record business...at US$15 people download the albums, make the tracks $0.99 and people think nothing of coughing it up, yes?

Keep up the good work and I wish you luck with your pricing experiments!

Thanks

Exactly as advertised. Great support from the author is very much appreciated. JoomFish integration is promised and greatly needed. However, you will not be disappointed in this purchase. This is almost the perfect form submission package and will be as the developer keeps adding to it.

A great extension, I tried several form extensions before settling for this one as it was a perfect balance between ease of use and power. It has features that I didn't even think of and that I'm now using!

I did have some issues initially with getting the email working since my host puts extra restrictions on SMTP mail but after commenting out the SMTP authentication all worked well. I'm glad I could get it all working as this extension is a joy to use.

I am using this extentions since 2008 and I'm very satisfied.

Absolutely great product

I used to build with frontpage (I am so old) and php formbuilder but since I've been on joomla have been struggling with forms

But not with your joomla forms Phil!

Built this form below in a matter of minutes - great stuff! And trust me - phpFormbuilder or FrontPage were nowhere near as easy as this was.
Thanks again

Dennis

Just great stuff from Phil, as we've come to expect... so impressive... just read the reviews below, I'm not going to repeat the comments again!

Two little extras would be nice:
1) different options for how required fields are displayed, the red stars aren't massive eye-candy and it doesn't say on the form what these mean

2) a plugin so a form could be displayed anywhere in an article.

Thanks Phil!

Dave.

This is the ideal tool. I had forms up & running in no time. Tons of features and possibilites. I really love it.

Same remark as the previews reviewer, I took me some time to figure out that you could have multiple actions executed after a form was submitted. I finally figured it out by checking out the demo server and the 3 forms available there.

This is absolutely the perfect forms system for Joomla and it does everything it claims; certainly everything I want it to do. If you're looking for a Forms Creator you shouldn't need to look any further than this one.

My only tiny caveat is that it isn't immediately obvious how it all works together and I would have given up if I didn't "feel" that it was a winner. Setting up the form is easy enough and there's lots of flexibility. However, I got a bit stuck when it came to the last bit, namely Submit Actions. Senior moment perhaps but I didn't realise (and nowhere in the FAQs does it mention) that you can set up any or all the available functions. Indeed you must! The trick is to make sure that the last one in the list is Redirect and you'll find it works like a dream. Just don't give up if you don't quite get the concept at first - it really does work superbly!

This is the first product I have ever posted a review for. If you need to create forms you need this. The file upload field alone makes it worth having (when I think of how many components I have tried just looking for a SIMPLE file upload feature). This is simple to use, has so many features it just gets better and better the more you play with it, yet it is designed in such a way that the more advanced stuff can be ignored if you just want a simple form. Watch the video and try the demo and you will be sold.
I did not have any of the installation issues some other people had, the product worked right out of the box. A comprenensive user manual would be a great addition or a few more videos, but the absence of these do not diminish my high opinion of this product.
Highly recommended.

I've used many of the Non-Commercial and Commercial forms creation and management extensions, and I honestly wasn't expecting anything too different out of this one. Once I actually got this installed and created the first form, I was amazed at it's straight forward, admin friendly, robust ability to pump out virtually any form creation you can imagine. My time is valuable to me and my clients, and I was able to make amazingly complex forms in 1/4 the time. Hats off to a masterful dev team!

Of the form extensions I've tried they’ve been cumbersome and occasionally costly both in financial terms and my time.

This one though I have to say is almost perfect. Intuitive, easy to use with an excellent array of options and appended explanations make this tool very easy to get to grips with.

The only imperfection is the inability to add a form into a module…. however I noted on Phil's website a soon to be released update will tackle this issue.

I created my first form in no time at all. If programming isn't your forte or you’re just short on time then I would have to recommend you give this a whirl. You’ll look like a superstar to your clients.

The support is faultless; I received a response to my query in just over an hour.

Best investment I've made on any Joomla extension to date!

Hard to fault this, even at UKPound 30 (Australian $65....ouch!) it's well worth it.

Easy to install and get going, couldn't be simpler to do your first form.

But beyond that there's so much depth, ability to customise emails, multiple (non-captcha) spambot checks, simple to add Submit Actions...etc

There's options to edit the CSS/HTML/Javascript, go as deep as you like.

Only thing on my wish list would be a wysiwyg layout editor, like the old Facile Forms, where you can nudge the fields into the pixel-perfect position.
However there IS a Custom Smarty Template which I havn't tried out yet so possibly that would help alter the layout.

Good support too, Phil responded quickly (allowing for time zone differences) and helpfully.

Phil, you rock. The use of Smarty Templates was genius. I was able to group the forms, control formatting, and make the form do pretty much anything that HTML can do on the front end side. Amazing what happens when a few different very cool technologies are put together.

The only thing that I would have liked to see (perhaps for a future version) is the ability to specify which events I want to respond to using JavaScript. It should probably be done so that we can click on a "New" link to add more scriptlets to a field. Then, at runtime, you just spin through all of the scriptlets/events and pop them into the input field tag. Currently, it looks like you only support ONBLUR. However, if I want to do something other (like ONCLICK), can't be done (at least I can't see anyway of doing it), other than with JavaScript injection at runtime to add events to the fields at runtime (not very pretty or elegant).

Also, I thought that a few more predefined types would also be helpful, like a Telephone Type with automatic validation. This is very typically used in websites and would be very useful. The date picker/entry type needs a little tuning as well. It should force you into the format that you enter and should allow anything other than numerical digits. It should automatically place the slashes "/" and colons ":" move the cursor into the right spot for the next digit. Social security numbers should automatically add the dashes "-" as well and not allow us to enter them. The number of equal-digits should automatically be set for the predefined fields like these. There should also be a predefined type for federal numbers, which are the same amount of digits as SS#, but have different placement for the dashes (only using one dash, instead of 2).

Another thing I would like to see in a future version is the use of Fieldsets for grouping fields onscreen. The inclusion of this one feature would have made it easier for my forms, and would not have required that I use Smarty Templates.

Regardless, of these missing features, I still thought that this form generation product was easy to install, easy to use, and easy to learn. After a few hours of working with it, I feel comfortable of saying that I've mastered all of its basic features and am working my way through the advanced features, such as redirects for an Action (awesome that they added this).

Too easy. I had a problem with it loading but when i contacted Phil he fixed it immediately. 10 minutes after that a professional form was on my website. There are so many options to get the form you want. Top score.

Thanks
Phil

I love Phil's products. They are smart tools, with good
user interfaces, thoughtful touches, and so efficient. This form tool just plain works. See his demo, prove it to yourself.