I love Breezing Forms, but the old Wiki is outdated and/or practically dead and this forum is lacking in a lot of areas, plus, let's face it, there is very little in the way of documentation, FAQs and Tutorials.

Here are a few things that would make our lives easier:

The ability to edit the layout of the forms in Dreamweaver or other HTML editor The ability to edit the layout of emails that are sent from the form in Dreamweaver or another HTML Editor The ability to use Visibility without putting the form in an iframe The ability to dynamically auto-fill a field based on the value of another field - ie. Zip Code ==> Populates City. A good library of form examples for people that are new to the extension The ability to dictate the width of Fieldsets in Quickmode. A 'Solutions' section of the forum where people can post solutions to common problems. The ability to use a smaller or different Captcha imagesmaller or different Captcha image A complete list of the syntax for the various BF functions like 'ff_getSubmit' etc.

If anyone has any ideas or links or whatever, or if I'm way off base and all these things exist, please reply to this thread and let me know. There are some super smart people on this forum.

erichhaubrich wrote:


This would help me quite a bit as well. Also, some reference to the structure of the forms in the mysql database. I prefer to write forms in excel, save it as a csv and upload it directly into the database. However, I couldn't make heads or tails of the structure using Quick Mode, and the advanced modes are pretty daunting without better documentation.

A lot of the interaction you do with the DB is done in Before Form pieces, Actionscripts and in the Integrator. It does need more documentation, you may find some of what you need by looking at the sample packages. Maybe do a search in the forum for ' JFactory::getDBO()' or ' $db->setQuery' or other code that talks to the DB.

Yesterday I added a new table to my Joomla database called 'jos_titleorders' and put the fields I needed into it. I will be using a Before Form piece to create a Joomla user, another script to log them in automatically, then the Integrator to add data to this new table.

You could do something similar by creating the tables you need, exporting the table to CSV in PHPMyAdmin, populating the data into the fields in Excel then re-importing the tabel into Excel. - There are probably easier ways to do that also, but I'm a SQL newbie.

Post a basic description of what you're trying to do and maybe some of us here on the forum can help.

Also, check out the Facebook Fan PageHere. As it grows you'll find more and more solutions there.

I agree. I am just trying to get basic database functionality and I have only seen examples for the classic mode. I see snippets of code and people who have apparently been successful, but I'm still just trying to clear the first hurdle.