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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.

This was a breeze to install, but took a bit of time to get used to for setting up my first few forms. Had a couple of issues with GPG, but with stellar support was able to get it solved.
These guys are heroes when it comes to support, and they are very fast!
I give them the top rating for my experience with them.

Keep it up!

Not being a programmer, I rely on well built tools to create Joomla sites for my clients. Phil Taylor builds great tools and Joomla Forms is a perfect example.

I had a late night email from a client "requesting" a form to be added to their site for a presentation to their boss the next day. I'd just received an email from Phil with a link to demo Joomla Forms.

I've used his previous form tool - Phil-A-Form (Joomla 1.0) - with success so I checked out the demo. Half an hour later I had downloaded, installed and used Joomla Forms to create a perfect form on my client's site.

Joomla Forms has enough options to cover most of the typical requirements for an online form running in Joomla. The documentation on how to use those options is solid and a sample form is included so you can see exactly how it works. The online forum is well organized and Phil is active in answering questions and solving issues.

Even if I were a programmer, I'd use this tool because it's fast, flexible and reliable.

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This is hands down the easiest and most powerful form creator available for Joomla 1.5. I was sold after using the demo for 5 minutes. There are a couple of other very good form generators, but this one blows them both out of the water. Try the demo out and see for yourself.

Having tried most of the Joomla 1.0 and a few of the Joomla 1.5 Form Generators, I can say without doubt that this is an extremely intuitive extension.
Within an hour I had it installed and working with a unique form of my composition.
Very impressed!
Also received very fast support when I emailed them a quick question.
Good work!