mojoPortal Tips: Making a Form Pop Up a Lightbox with Form Wizard Pro

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 December 2012 12:00 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 13 December 2012 12:00

Recently, I worked on a project for a client who had a special request for custom functionality on their site. Instead of using the standard newsletter e-mail capture, they wanted an additional form that would present in a lightbox after the user entered their e-mail and clicked “submit” for the first form. I did it, using a custom form handler and some jQuery – this is how.

I started by creating the first custom form that mimic’d the standard newsletter e-mail capture format, then implemented a custom submission handler, as described here: “Implementing A Custom Form Submission Handler”. Fairly straightforward, up to the point where I had to sort out how to enable the second form to pop up in the lightbox. It’s easy enough when you’re calling a link from a page: just add the “cblink” class to your link. It’s a bit trickier when you’re leveraging a form submission, so I got a bit more creative.

nopCommerce Tips: Adding a Custom Label or Title

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 08:41 Written by Carole Bennett Wednesday, 17 October 2012 12:00

When customizing a nopCommerce installation, it may be necessary to add a custom field or title; in order to ensure that you can support that custom field in more than one language, it’s a good idea to add it to your language resources. Here’s how to do that.

1. Log into nopCommerce as an admin, and navigate to the Administration area

2. Click on “Configuration”=>”Languages”, and next to your preferred language (in this case, “English”), click “View String Resources”.

3. Click the “Add New Record” button on the left; enter a value for the resource name, and the title of the link you’re creating as a value.

How to Add a Feedback Page in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 August 2012 12:51 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Sunday, 26 August 2012 12:00

Several of our Elgg users were looking for a way to allow site feedback in their Elgg network. This article will give a step by step guide on how to show a feedback form in Elgg 1.8

1.  Download a plugin called “Elgg 1.8: Feedback”, which can be downloaded here

2. After downloading the plugin, upload the plugin to the mod folder of your Elgg network to install it. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this article.

3. After that, please sign in as an Administration and go to the Administration Dashboard:

Customizing Product Enquiry Forms with FormBuilder and Products Modules

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:35 Written by Ken Griffith Friday, 15 June 2012 12:00

Suppose you are building a catalog website in CMS Made Simple that uses the Products Module and you want to show a contact form on each product detail page. With this little trick you can customize the Subject line of the enquiry form using FormBuilder to include the Product Name automatically.

To do this, use the standard Contact Form in FormBuilder. we look up the field id of the Subject line in your Contact Form. You can do this by checking the “show field id” option in Formbuilder’s Preferences Tab.

Let’s say for example, the field number is “40″. Now, in your product detail template just put the following FormBuilder tag:

How to Add An Anti-Spam Question to Your Dolphin 7 Join Form

Last Updated on Sunday, 15 April 2012 06:30 Written by Mscott Tuesday, 17 April 2012 12:00

If you’ve worked with Dolphin for any length of time you’re probably aware that spam signups are an on-going problem. In the past I’ve covered some techniques to stop these unwanted guests from spreading their advertising all over your site. Today I’ll show you how to add a “spam question” to your join page and stop even more of them.

We’ll start out by logging into the Dolphin admin panel and going to the “Builder” menu on the left side menu. Then click “Profile fields” and drag a “New_Item” block to the join form. Click the new block and change the “System Name” to “SpamQuestion”. For the “Caption” enter any question you like. For this example, we will use “What’s 3 + 2?” Now click the advanced tab and put a check mark next to “Mandatory” and under “Check” enter this: