Joomla extension RSForm! Pro Tips, Tricks and Advanced Usage

Alexandru Plapaana

RSJoomla! CCO

What is this all about - RSForm!Pro

- Multi-page forms

- Integrating form submissions with other actions

- Custom validation rules and security aspects

- PHP scripting areas

- Conditional fields

- Form calculations

- Payments and eCommerce

- Free discussion

Multi-page forms- pagination using a JavaScript - ease of use- validation triggers- visual input by displaying a

progress bar- maximum flexibility: Preview

before submit, conditional page

What can you do with form submissions ?

...ok what else ?

Mapping tool

Post to location

Scripts

Complete control over validations- Required, Alphanumeric, Email, Email DNS, Unique

Field, Unique Field per User, USA ZIP Code, Phone Number, Credit Card, Custom Validation(Characters), Passphrase, IP Address, URL, Regex, Same Value as Other Field

- PHP validation via Scripts called on form process area

- creating custom validation rule

Built-in XSS protection & Spam

- this is triggered on certain keywords like “script”,”link”

- various spam protection mechanisms: captcha, invisible captcha, noCaptcha, reCaptcha, Akismet

Conditional fields

- show or hide fields

- check against empty values:{if {field_name:value}}this text gets displayed only if the placeholder has a value{/if}

Form calculations- field A = field B + field C - field D *

field E

- basic math operations

- can be combined with payments (small workaround)