PhilaForm Joomla Form Building Component
I had a VERY stressful website job and was way over budget. The thing that was giving me the most heartburn was a form I had to build with 80 fields! That’s right: 80 fields! I have built some large forms by hand writing php code, but it’s very time consuming. And when you add a database to the form, even more time consuming.
I’d read about a couple form tools in the Joomla Extensions and both seemed to be powerful, complex tools. But I was stressed and out of time and I wanted a simple point-and-click form builder that wasn’t going to take three days to learn. And then I discovered PhilaForm Form Building Component for Joomla. This component was a real lifesaver for me. I was able to install and build the 80 field form and the database in about 4 hours!
This component has an easy-to-use javascript verification script for checking almost any field validation you can think of. Even with 80 fields, the verfication was fast and intuitive.
The only downside to this script is the cost and the support. The component costs around $40 U S dollars. That might seem kind of high, but when you consider the time savings, it’s worth it. Money well spent. But for $40 dollars, I expect at least some reasonable forum response time. I posted two quetions on the forum over two weeks ago and neither of them have been answered. There was an indication that Phil Taylor, the developer, had a heart attached sometime in the last two months, so maybe he’s still recovering from that. Luckily, the software is pretty easy to use.