Can someone please help me with implementing a customized form into Magento?
I have created a PHP form that works outside Magento that collects user data and allows them to upload a file. I am clueless as to how to get this functioning in the Magento environment. We are already taking advantage of the internal form with a contact us. This one is a feedback form to collect user data.
I have been digging around in Google for a couple of hours now and the only scenarios are how to get aspects of their forms working, not how they got it in there in the first place.
Your responses are appreciated. I am even open to you just giving me the right link to look at.
There is a good article about how to create a custom form in magento: Create custom form.
It describes how to create a route in config.xml, how to create the controller php (where you can handle the post action), and an example of the template file.
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I am working on creating a Joomla based web service that is easy to use. The end goal is to allow customers the ability to manage the site from the front-end with no back-end (administrator) access. To accomplish this task I am using K2 that has existing front-end editing. Then behind the scenes we will provide technical support. Essentially, non-techy customers can easily manage their site, with us managing the tech side of things.
I need to provide a few forms (Contact, Event registration/payment and Donation payment). These forms also require that certain aspects of the forms can be updated via the front-end leveraging K2. (eg. The email address to send form submissions to.) With most forms components this can be done easily from the admin panel, however this is too complicated for non-techy customers and means we would have to provide admin access instead of just front-end. Not a good solution.
I have created a K2 contact Form plugin that will allow a customer to update where the email is sent on submission, when logged into the front-end with correct permissions. So far so good. I chose a plugin to accomplish this so we could leverage the existing front-end editing.
The issue I ran into is how to make my plugin create a table, preferably on install, as well as save form data to that table on successful submission. I'm not sure that this is possible using a plugin and have not found any documentation or sources mentioning how to accomplish this task.
I was hoping someone may be able to confirm either way if this is possible? Any suggestions, comments, etc would be greatly appreciated.
While installing plugin you can create DB tables, Its not a big deal create the SQL file with proper table query and set that inside your XML file.
Also you can create a forms(with many fields) inside your plugin file, But the problem is you should have any components controller and model related to this form submission task. Bcoz form submission you cannot handle inside plugin file, it should required a controller and model files.
So basically your plugin have related components then you can achieve it with form action like below.
<form action="index.php?option=com_yourcomponent&task=your_controller.your_function">
For creating DB table while installing plugin check this link
Hope its helps..
I've searched and search but to no avail. I cant find a simple way to have the registration form on a page in my wordpress site. I've seen a lot of plugins that kind of do it but they also make you customize the form or have a gazzlion bugs in them. I just want to reproduce the register form that appears at:
www.example.com/wp-login.php?action=register
I dont want a members plugin either as I am in the midst of creating my own CRM type plugin.
Here is an (old) article about customizing your registration / login form:
http://digwp.com/2010/12/login-register-password-code/
Recently I have stumbled upon a situation in Joomla 3.1.1 where I need to add a custom field attached with default registration form.
I surfed the existing resources which say that I should navigate to
joomla_root/components/com_users/models/forms/registration.xml and then change the file accordingly.
I have done that but nothing is showing up. I also need to change registration.php in model and controller too. So, I need your inputs on how to do that. I can't use profile plugin or commercial extensions.
One more thing that I've noticed is the fact that changing registration.xml file and such things work perfectly fine in Joomla 2.5 but isn't working in 3.x.
Joomla ships with a user plugin called "profile" which may contain the fields you want to add already.
In the administrator go to extensions/plugins, filter by type and choose "user", then find the "Profile" and open it. Check out the options on the right handside, enable the plugin and voila.
Warning: most templates override the registration form and they usually don't fire the correct plugin events. If this is the case, your users will only see the "standard" fields in the registration. And if you set any fields as required in the plugin, they will not be registered, but redirected to the complete registration page (the user component), where they will find the fields they already filled in except for the passwords, which can be quite annoying.
If the "profile" fields are not sufficient, copy the profile plugin and build your own.
Do NOT modify the profile plugin or com_users files like you have done, this is Joomla core and will be overwritten when you next upgrade.
Eventually it turns out that the problem was a component called K2.I tried this custom registration stuff in joomla 2.5 and then suddenly thought how about disabling K2 System Plugin..It worked.
Im posting the steps to do so:
1.Navigate to joomla_root/components/com_users/models/forms/registration.xml and add a field there.
2.Then open up joomla_root/components/com_users/models/registration.php and then in the function register() change ur custom fields.
3.Don't forget to add a field in ur database table #_users which you have added in registration.xml
Depending on whether you needed the custom field to be added to the database or not, you could use a form building component such as RSForm!Pro or ChronoForms. They both can tie into the user registration system in Joomla and give you a lot of flexibility in custom emails, adding info to database tables, etc. This would insulate you from any core updates that could wipe out your modifications. I believe Chronoforms is free as long as you don't mind a link back to the developers in the form.
If you can't do that, I would make sure that I had a backup of the files that I modified handy before updating the site. Joomla 3.1.x is a short term build so you have a higher risk of those files getting changed than if you were working on a Joomla 2.5.x site.
I am writing a component for Joomla 1.5. There is a need for a Form in it, infact three forms are needed.
I have searched and looked a lot but could not find where to start so that i should be able to show the form on the front end. The forms will show up in the front end depending upon user information. There will be some difference in each from.
How can i program the form? I know how the components are written, but confused about how forms are integrated in components.
Here you can find a good tutorial about creating a Joomla Component http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_Component_-_Part_1
Probably you have to create 3 views for each form.
i want to create a custom form with some fields that i could add/edit/delete on database
how integrate my form with wordpress?
do you know a website ,that have a tutorial about this process ?
thanks
There are plugins that allow you to create custom forms (cformsII), and with some additional PHP knowledge you can retrieve the data using their API. I found this tutorial that quickly goes through installing, configuring and retrieving data from this plugin. That same page also listed some additional forms plugins that are worth looking at.
Another option is to do this using HTML and PHP without the use of a plugin. The following link will give you some insight in how to start and some code that can get you started:
http://www.paulmc.org/whatithink/2009/02/05/using-wordpress-templates-to-create-forms/
Note: There is a plugin called Formidable but only the Pro version allows you to easily retrieve the data from the database.
This is a really involved question, so it shouldn't be asked here.
P.S. Not specific to WordPress but http://teamtutorials.com/web-development-tutorials/php-tutorials/inserting-data-into-a-mysql-database-using-php