Introduction

Contact forms, Forms

Smooth newbie introduction, professional feature set, flexible validation, nested conditional fields, customizable email, user data management, user inputs in frontend, native spam protection, Gratis.


visForms comprises both, all basic standard features including responsive design that any contemporary form generator should offer, and a rich professional feature set free of charge.

We spent quite some time to provide useful succinct documentation including technical overviews and step-by-step introductions. The support forum keeps 600 active users, 900 themes. Each and every question has its solution. If the answer is covered by documentation we point you to the right spot. Besides, feature implementation is still based on forum user ideas and suggestions.

Bundled with our SpamBotCheck plugin, you don't need Captcha anymore. You can of course if you want to.
The plugin stops spam at the very source. It leverages major DNS and e-mail black list providers to prevent spam sources from registration and login into your site.

Using visForms means security of your investment. Even thought you don't pay for it. You spent time using it. We continuously dispatch new features addressing user demands. Future Joomla! releases will be supported. If you like to enhance your forms beyond of what a form generator does, into an intermediate sized web application, there's a charged Subscription offering a variety of tools for that.

Features

Security

  • Bundled with an enhanced version of our prominet SpamBotCheck plugin for effective online spam-protection without Captchas
  • Captchas optionally available
  • Secure file upload
  • Javascript and PHP validation of user inputs
  • Full ACL support
  • Email cloaking for formular text

Responsive form layouts

  • Supports responsive Bootstrap default and horizontal form layout and visForms layout
  • Custom text, which can be added before or after each form field
  • Select position of required text in form
  • Select position, where to dispaly the required asterix for required fields
  • Label may appear as placeholer

Form as a module

  • Show your forms in all possible module positions

Support for all default HTML form field types

  • Hide field labels and use placeholders instead
  • Text inputs: text, email, date, url, number, hidden, password
  • Textarea
  • Selects and radios
  • Single checkbox and checkbox groups
  • Buttons: Submit, Image, Reset
  • File upload
  • Additional field separator

Flexible field validation

  • Use any individual regular expression to validate the user input of text fields
  • Compare user inputs in two or more fields with equal to validation
  • Validate for unique field value in database
  • Build-in field type specific validation for email, number, date and url

Conditional fields

  • Show/hide a form field, depending on the value selected in an other field
  • Define as many conditions for a field as you like
  • Nested conditional fields

Customizable result messages and emails

  • Use user inputs in result message and receipt email
  • Either use default result message or create a custom result message or redirect to a specific page after form submit

Backend management of user inputs

  • Store submitted user inputs in database
  • Export data to CSV format
  • Edit stored user inputs
  • Restore edited user inputs to the values submitted by the user

Display stored user inputs in the frontend

  • Menu type for list and detail frontend view
  • Exclude fields
  • Exclude records
  • Sort data
  • Set list limit

Native multilingual support

  • Allows you to create forms and fields in different languages. So, if you build a multilingual website, you can do this natively and won't have to worry about it.

Basic import of Forms created with Breezingforms

Developer features

  • Comprehensive build-in event system
  • Develop own plugins to control and enhance visForms functionality with additional custom code

Miscellaneous features

  • Enable URL parameter to set default values for specific fields
  • Administration batch copy of forms and/or fields
  • Uses Joomla! auto-updater to keep you informed about updates
  • Basic import of Forms created with Breezingforms
  • Free removal of "Powered by" link
  • Continuous implementation of new features as requested from visForms users
  • Online documentation

Extension Plugins for visForms

The charged Subscription wraps numerous plugins, each adding more sophisticated features.
Below just three examples to give you the idea:

  • GDPR compliancy feature
  • Display a single form definition several times but having specific start values. Place them anywhere in the front-end, such as in articles or in modules.
  • Configure your form to support multiple notification e-mails having different addresses depending on the user input. This way, your form dispatches the notification e-mail always to the person in charge.
  • Show stored user input anywhere in the front-end like in articles. This includes choise of visible fields, complete control on data selection, strong search filters, ordering and plenty of display options. All achieved by editing a tiny configuration string.
  • Edit stored user inputs in the front-end

visForms umfasst alle grundsätzlichen Feature, darunter auch Responsives Design, welche ein moderner Formgenerator besitzen sollte, sowie zahlreiche professionelle Funktionen ohne Kosten für Sie.

Wir verbringen einige Zeit damit, eine nützliche und prägnante Dokumentation mit technischen Übersichten und Schritt-für-Schritt Anweisungen zu pflegen. Das Anwenderforum hat aktuell 600 aktive Benutzer und 900 Themen. Wirklich jede Frage hat ihre Lösung. Falls die Antwort durch die Dokumentation abgedeckt ist, verweisen wir Sie auf die entsprechende Stelle. Neue Funktionen werden weiterhin hauptsächlich durch Forumsbeiträge angestoßen.

Gepackt mit unserem SpamBotCheck Plugin benötigen Sie kein Captcha mehr. Sie können selbstverständlich falls Sie es wollen. Dieses Plugin stoppt Spam direkt an der Quelle. Es verwendet verschiedene große DNS und E-Mail Blacklist Provider um Spammer von Registrierung und Login auf Ihrer Webseite abzuwehren.

Wir liefern ununterbrochen neue Feature. Zukünftige Joomla! Versionen werden unterstützt. Falls Sie ihre losen Formulare zu einer kleinen Web Applikation erweitern wollen, so gibt es eine kostenpflichtige Subscription. Mit ihr werden mehrere Plugins zusammengefasst, die Tools für diesen Zweck liefern.

Die Featureliste:

——>Sicherheit:
* Mit SpamBotCheck Plugin für Online Spamschutz ohne Captcha
* Zusätzliche sind Captcha möglich
* Sicherer Datei Upload
* Javascript und PHP Validierung der Benutzereingaben
* Voller Joomla! ACL Support
* E-Mail Cloaking in allen Formulartexten
——>Responsive Layouts:
* Unterstützt responsives Bootstrap Standard-Layout und horizontales Bootstrap Layout
* Individuelle Texte ober- oder unterhalb des Feldes
* Unterschiedliche Positionen für den Text "Pflichtfeld"
* Unterschiedliche Positionen für den Pflichtfeld-Stern
* Feld Label als Platzhalter direkt im Input
——>Formular als ein Modul
* Erlaubt die Platzierung von Formularen in allen Modulpositionen
——>Unterstützung für alle Standard-HTML Feldtypen:
* Text Inputs: Text, E-Mail, Datum, URL, Zahl, versteckt, Passwort
* Textarea
* Listboxen und Radio Buttons
* Checkbox und Checkbox Gruppen
* Buttons: Submit, Image, Reset
* File Upload
* Feld Trenner
——>Flexible, individuelle Validierung:
* Individuelle reguläre Ausdrücke (regular expression) zur Validierung der Texteingaben
* Benutzereingaben in zwei Formularfeldern auf Gleichheit testen
* Auf Eindeutigkeit der Benutzereingaben in der Datenbank testen
* Eingebaute Feldtyp spezifische Validierung für E-Mail, Zahl, Datum und URL
——>Bedingte Anzeige von Feldern:
* Anzeigen/Verstecken eines Formular Feldes, abhängig vom Wert in einem anderen Feld
* Beliebig viele Bedingungen
* Schachtelung von bedingten Feldern
——>Anpassbarer Ergebnistext und E-Mails:
* Benutzereingaben in Ergebnistext und Ergebnismail verwenden
* Standard Ergebnismeldung, ein eigener Ergebnistext oder die Weiterleitung zu einer beliebigen URL nach erfolgreicher Übermittlung des Formulars
——>Benutzereingaben verwalten:
* Benutzereingaben in der Datenbank speichern
* Daten in eine CSV-Datei exportieren
* Benutzereingaben editieren
* Editierte Eingaben auf die ursprüngliche Benutzereingabe zurücksetzen
——>Anzeige gespeicherte Benutzereingaben im Frontend:
* Menütyp zur Listen und Detail-Ansicht im Frontend
* Felder von der Anzeige ausschließen
* Datensätze von der Anzeige ausschließen
* Datenliste im Frontend sortieren
* Anzahl Datensätze pro Seite festlegen
——>Native Unterstützung für Mehrsprachigkeit:
* Formulare und Felder in unterschiedlichen Sprachen erstellen. Wenn Sie mehrsprachige Webseiten erstellen, können Sie das mit visForms nativ tun, ohne zusätzliche Erweiterungen.
——>Feature für Entwickler:
* Integriertes umfangreiches Event System
* Entwicklung eigener Plugins zur Kontrolle und Erweiterung der visForms Funktionen
——>Verschiedenes:
' Diverse Feature mit denen Sie Ihr Formular DSGVO konform gestalten können
* Elementarer Import von Formularen, die mit Breezingforms entwickelt wurden
* Die Verwendung von URL-Parametern zum Setzen von Defaultwerten in Formularfeldern kann bei Bedarf individuell für jedes Feld angeschaltet werden
* Stapelverabeitung zum Kopieren von Formularen und/oder Feldern
* Verwendet Joomla! Autoupdater, um Sie über Updates zu informieren
* Kostenlose Entfernung des "Powered By"-Links
* Kontinuierliche Implementierung neuer Feature entsprechend den Wünschen von visForms Anwendern
* Online Dokumentation
——>Nützliche Erweiterungen, die zusätzliche Anwendungsbereiche erschließen
Die kostenpflichtige Subscription umfasse zahlreiche Plugins, die Visforms nützliche Zusatzfeature hinzufügen
Hier nur einige Beispiele um Ihnen eine Idee zugeben:
- Ein und dasselbe Formular mit unterschiedlichen Defaultwerten an unterschiedlichen Stellen im Frontend mehrfach anzeigen. Platzieren Sie die unterschiedlichen Instanzen des Formulars an beliebige Stelle in Beiträgen oder Modulen.
- Konfigurieren Sie Ihr Formular so, dass die Ergebnismali an unterschiedliche Adressen geschickt wird, abhängig von Eingaben, die der Benutzer im Formular gemacht hat. So geht die Ergebnismal immer an den zuständigen Ansprechpartner.
- Gespeicherte Daten überall im Joomla! Content anzeigen. Dies umfasst die Wahl, welche Felder sichtbar sind und vollständige Kontrolle darüber welche Datensätze angezeigt werden. Das alles wird über einen kleinen String, den Sie in Ihren Beitrag einfügen, gesteuert.
- Gespeicherte Daten im Frontend bearbeiten. Sie haben, bis auf Feldebene genau, vollständige Kontrolle darüber, wer welche Daten bearbeiten darf.

Godd but...



Posted on 05 December 2013
VIS form is good. It is very easy creating forms but there is no option for editing stored information. The link back is annoying.
Owner's reply: Hi,
thank you for the review.
visForms is a Form Generator. It's purpose is to allow you to create forms easily and without knowledge of HTML or CSS and to allow users of your website to send information to you.

It's neither designed as nor ment to be a data management system (which would include editing data submitted by your user). You can delete recordssets of submitted data and you can export data into a csv file where you may edit and change them for your further use.

Aicha

very useful



Posted on 19 November 2013
After several attempts, finally the real deal.

Best for me.

Thanks

Very Helpful



Posted on 19 November 2013
Thank you for making this extension available. I found this very helpful and so easy to manage. Much more that being free it is backed up by professional friendly people. It takes a big heart to give big things for free, congratulations!

Excelent and easy



Posted on 12 November 2013
As I say, excelent and easy to use, the only thing i was unable to do is to show the tooltips and other text fields in other languajes
Owner's reply: Hi Donleo, thank you so much for your review. Visforms works natively with Joomla! 2.5 language implementation. You would have to create a different form for every language (you can just copy the whole form with all fields with the duplicate button), link it to an menu specific for that language and translate the texts (Tooltips, Custom Error Text and so on). Regards, Aicha

Good form extension



Posted on 12 November 2013
This is actually a great form extension.

Easy to use and versatile and I am greatful that someone has kept CK alive. The bad it is not Joomla 3 ready.

Pls make it Joomla 3 compatible.
Owner's reply: Hi, thank you so much for your review. I will make this work with Joomla! 3 but it will take me some more time. It will be available before the long term support for Joomla! 2.5 ends (which will be in the second half of 2014). Regards, Aicha
Great extension! Simple to use, flexible, customizable great graphics, equipped with everything you need and that sometimes is not even in commercial products. The support is really good! A non-commercial product highly recommended!

Great Form



Posted on 13 September 2013
I love this form, it's work for me and good form for non commercial version.

Easy to use and like CK form and form can make me easy to use and easy to create
I needed a simple form with a few questions and a comments box, and was surprised at how hard it was to find a free form extension that would actually work on a multi-lingual site. And since we are watching expenses closely right now, I needed something free.



Visforms does that and much more, giving you lots of options and making your forms intuitive for users, yet the admin interface keeps things straightforward. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to use it.



It also works in ways that give you plenty of flexibility. Instead of having it attached to a menu, I created a module and used Joomla 2.5's {loadmodule} tag to have the form show in a normal article.



You can also copy the language files and add as many as you like.



There is only one tiny downside: Although it has it's own css file for styling, some templates will override your settings anyway. When I viewed the page source, I found that Visforms' css file was loading first, so my template overrode my desire to remove the background from the text fields.



This is fairly trivial, however, and I don't want to dimish what is a great extension!
Owner's reply: Hi Dave,
thanks so much for that detailed response!

In my opinion any extension should fit into the template layout as best as it could. If your template overrides your desire to remove backgrounds, that is the layout of your template and I think the form you create with visforms should look the same way in the first place.

Nevertheless you could make the css selector in visforms css-file stronger than the one in the template css-file and that would override your template style regardless of where the files are included in your template.

Kind regards,
Aicha

Great Work



Posted on 14 May 2013
a great form for its own page and also great form to position where you like on any page works great with both email and save to database
I have long searched for a form component, which has an upload function, and here I found it! ...

By the way, a great support, keep it up!
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visforms

Version:
5.4.1
Developer:
Aicha Vack
Last updated:
May 06 2025
1 month ago
Date added:
Nov 19 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
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Compatibility:
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