02 Feb |
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 Joomla's out the box Contact component is...lacking to say the least. You can't add additional custom fields, and the forms are submitted to email only, not saved to a database. The core developers say Joomla is just the framework and they intend for third party developers to create better extension, but I say phooey, Joomla SHOULD come with a powerful forms extension like every good CMS should. Enter Fabrik , which use to be MosForms from the Mambo days. We've tried virtually every forms extension out there, the main contenders are Phil Taylor's Phil-a-form , Facile Forms , and Fabrik in my opinion. Each has strengths and weaknesses. Phil-a-form's main advantage is an easily templated html email that's fired off when the form is submitted. Other than that, I felt Phil-a-form was cumbersome and the termanology was confusing. Facile Forms is like forms for dummies. They make it simply to update the form layout for CSS challenged, but once you look at the database structure you'll never use it again. Fabrik is the most well structured and after a small learning curve is the easiest to use.
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