Hi guys,
Does anyone of you know a good free joomla extension to create forms? I have searched the joomla site but most of them are commercial and the free ones very lite and buggy. I have Joomla 1.5 installed.
I need to make some forms for my site 34life.org to subscribe some volunteers.
Thanks in advance.
I ran into this myself. I didn't have an issue buying one of the form packages, but none of them did what I wanted, so I created my own.
What I ended up doing was to take the Zend Framework's Form classes and strip out the dependencies with the rest of Zend, and also most of the controller stuff. I then just created a module that defined all my forms (arrays of Form Elements, but with hooks to put custom logic in) and loaded them into articles using the {loadposition xxx} syntax.
I did this under a tight deadline, and haven't been able to clean it up to offer as an actual project. It did work quite well though, and there's lots of code that you can lift from Zend.
I've had a little bit of experience with http://www.chronoengine.com/ which was simple enough for a non technically minded client to set up a simple email inquiry form. The free version does have a "powered by chronoforms" link underneath each form though.
definetly the best is breezing forms for joomla, here are some demos:
Hi Jerph, sure you can do that for quick and dirty forms but there is a lot more than just displaying form items like record management. These Joomla! extensions usually take care of everything for you already. One even uses auto-layout which is very time saving: autolayout example
We've been using JForms for quite some time now and all of our clients are very happy with it. You can design your forms by dragging and dropping form elements onto the form. You can setup mail notifications and export all data in a multitude of formats (csv, xml, xls to name a few).