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Support => General => Topic started by: mlapl1 on September 03, 2008, 04:38:54

Title: Making forms and dropdown menus
Post by: mlapl1 on September 03, 2008, 04:38:54

Hello everyone

Can anyone tell me if there is some component or module etc... which will enable me to easily make a form (e.g. like a contact form or something like that).

Also is there some way of making a dropdown menu like the one at the top of the admin template (you hover the mouse over a menu item and a whole list of sub-items appears below).

I have looked around a bit but cannot find anything.

Thank you
Andrew

Title: Re: Making forms and dropdown menus
Post by: datahell on September 03, 2008, 14:53:20

There is component Facile Forms but it is for Elxis 2006.x. I dont know if it works fine on Elxis 2008.x.

https://www.elxis.org/extensions/legacy-downloads/elxis-2006-components.html (https://www.elxis.org/extensions/legacy-downloads/elxis-2006-components.html)

Title: Re: Making forms and dropdown menus
Post by: xmanhattan on September 03, 2008, 14:56:42

I tried to use that but it did not appear to work properly under 2008.

Title: Re: Making forms and dropdown menus
Post by: mlapl1 on September 03, 2008, 22:14:38

This actually raises a serious problem. How can we produce secure forms which are linked to our websites?

Cheers

Andrew

Title: Re: Making forms and dropdown menus
Post by: datahell on September 03, 2008, 22:54:29

The easiest way to do it is by using an external form which is being displayed inside elxis with wrapper.

The second option (the best technically) is to create a small component that will display just the form you want and will execute it's action.
The creation of such a component is extremely easy if you know some html and have a basic knowledge of php. If you have the html form ready the creation of the component is no more than 1-2 hours work. What is a component? It is ANY php file inside folder components/ that is being included automatically by Elxis when you call it from the URL using it's name with the global variable $option (for example $option=com_myform).

This is the simplest example for the file structure of a full working Elxis component:
components/
      com_myform/
             myform.php

Call this component like this: index.php?option=com_myform

I think I should write a small tutorial some day of home you can create your own simple components...

Title: Re: Making forms and dropdown menus
Post by: mlapl1 on September 04, 2008, 01:21:45

Thank you very much for this response. I have just discovered elxsis and I like it very much. I am seriously thinking of switching to it from the other CMS systems I am using and the issues I am raising are related to this hope.

All the best
Andrew