JForms

WYSIWYG Form Creator for Joomla!

Features

Written by Mostafa Muhammad

Saturday, 27 September 2008 04:07

End user perspective

Single screen form creation using Easy WYSIWYG Form editor.
A variaty of form elements:
HTML elements that allows the user to have HTML within the form.
Joomla! User Info Element that collects data about the user from Joomla! Database.
Ability to define validation rules for different form elements.
Ability to define who has the permission to fill any given form.
Ability to define default (Pre-selected) value for most of form elements.
IP Tracking.
AJAX based Records manager featuring control over what fields to display and a simple keyword search.
Generated forms are accessible and compliant with xHTML standards.
Everything is validated on the both client-side and server-side.
Ability to send submissions to any number of E-mails.
Ability to send users confirmatory messages.
Customizable E-mail messages.

Developer perspective

The component has a plugin based design that allows the developer to easily create new form elements and control how they are validated(Javascript and server-side), Stored or retrieved from the Database.
The developer can also modify existent form elements to meet his needs without having to modify any core files.

Screencast

This is a screencast showing the component in action, please note that the version in the video is outdated, if you would like to see the component's full potential go ahead and download it

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:07

Comments (14)

good

Hi...

I've tryed several other form components, freeware and commerical, and as my conclusion, jForm is one of (or the) best. It's very simple to use due of it's ajax-powered UI, the records-viewer is well integrated and form validation is done on client and on server-side. I LOVE IT 8-)

Best regards,...

Have searched all over for a easy to use form component and overlooked Jform. What a mistake! This component is easy to use and simplifies building forms, saving time and money when building client sites.

Nice Job

Thank You

First time using JForm, i must admit, i've been using many other form components, never seen something close to JForm. It has made my joomla skills up. Thanks to the JForm Team. God Bless you all!!!
From Cameroon

I have favor to ask, how can align the form content to the right?

Thanks,
Talal

You will need to change the CSS files for your JForms theme, If you're using the default "Probably you are" , You'll need to modify the following CSS file
/path/to/joomla/components/com_jforms/views/form/default.css

Changing every "left" to "right" and adding a "direction:rtl" should do the trick

What about "direction:rtl" where should I add that in the file?
plus

In the name of ALLAH.
thanks for your support.
I do " rtl " direction in .6 but in .7 beta I can't find CSS files.
How I can rtl & how I can Validation of non-english text in filds.
thanks alot

Hi, I am using your wonderful component and I need all de labels in spanish.
How can I change the subject of the emails (sent to the user and to the administrator)?

When will you publish a spanish package? If you want I can sent you all the labels translated.

Form Labels aren't translated using language packages , Labels are displayed as is, you set their values in JForms Backend and they are displayed on the frontend without changes.

As for the subject of the E-mail , you can find it in the language files
/path/to/joomla/administrator/components/com_jforms/language/en-GB/en-GB.storage.Mail.ini

Please use the forum if you have any further questions please use the forum

hi!
I want to set direction to RTL to make a persian forn.
plz help me.

In the name of ALLAH

Thank you very much Mostafa for this effort. JForm really is a comprehensive and wonderful component.
But I've a question about this component, that is:
I've created a form for registration or "create an account" using your product "JForm" and it works well but I want Registered users to login using the data "user name & password" they entered in the "create an account” stage. I don't want the default Joomla login Form as I have more fields and data to add in the form.
and How to check up any field to be unique like "user name"?

I hope you can understand me.
Wishing you all the best and with a thousand of thanks,
Asmaa

Well, I am afraid that there is no way to do that in the current version of JForms, I plan on implementing this later on, but until then you will have to find another way.

You can use Fabrik to do this , check this thread
http://fabrikar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10557

Hello Mostafa,

I'm currently trying to create the xml-definition for translating JForms elements via JoomFish Translation component. The form itself wasn't that difficult, but I think I'm getting things wrong with the form elements (database table "jforms_tparameters"). Do you have any idea how to make translation possible or do you even have the needed xml-files?

Thanks for this great form component - I'll appreciate your help.
Daniel

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Well - should have searched the forum before posting here. I found your joomfish plugin and I think that's all I need for now.

Thank you!
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