I've tried others - some are good , some are complicated.
CKforms is the easiest and most reliable way to produce forms for a Joomla website. You really don't need a manual to use it. Simple but can produse sophisticated forms.
All data stored on site was emailed to me - not 1 missed mailing submitted data.

I only wish it could handle Joomla registration and perhaps a terms and conditions enable for submission ... but can get round that with form components.

Ive been using Jevents calendar for 2 years - no problems... and just got paid membership for the extra addons. It was well worth it and when I had a problem the developer fixed it immediately - my fault as I missed installing one of the plugins. Even without membership the support has always been good.

It seems like the development is moving ahead at a fast pace and nothing compares to it if you want TOTAL event management from a calendar. I cant find anything better.

From 'Fair' to ' Very Poor' is a big step ...but a fair rating would be an over-rating on this point.

Its simple and works well but I would say one massive minus point is that comments are separated and only visible in the site language they are input in. Nightmare for users swapping languages to see what everyone said!
So if someone viewing the site in German makes a comment it cannot be seen by someone viewing the site in English ... this may simply be caused by browser settings.
There is no admin setting for this at this time and when I posted a message on the developers forum there was no comment - just a link to an article to manually add tables and values to the database.
A simple note explaining the current situation on this wouldve made a big difference... will an admin fix be available in an upgrade, or left like it is ... view this link and do it yourself with phpmyadmin?

For that poor response this review is justified.

Works better than most (free ones) Ive tried. Works wherever I choose - no problems at all.

I receive over 30 spam emails a day from the 'Contact Us' standard form. It's hard to believe CAPTCHA isn't standard in Joomla and several�other CAPTCHA plugins have caused problems.
QContacts is one extension that stopped spam and was easy to install with no problems - great little extension, thanks a lot.

The description here on the Joomla site is very different from the developers site. Great extension but it does the opposite of it says it will do here.

"Universal User Integration" ... sorry no! Its a one way integration from other software. Forget integrating your Joomla users in a message board. Joomla accounts are totally useless/meaningless at this stage in its development.
Ideal for message boards that want a portal - useless for joomla users that want a message board.

This text from the developers site should be on the Joomla extension description - I cannot believe it was left out!

What does JFusion do?

* JFusion will force Joomla to use an exteral software as the "master" of usermanagement."

"What can JFusion not do at this stage?

* JFusion does not have user-sync at ths stage, which makes it unsuitable for people with a large Joomla user database, to extend their Joomla installation with a forum (user-sync will be added at a later date)"

This is pretty explicit ... why isnt it written here. It means I gota move all joomla accounts in to a message board.

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