more Form element
for YOOtheme Pro
This plugin makes it possible to build a nice looking form with the YOOtheme Pro builder. You can make use of many field options including multiple file uploads and even hide the whole form within a modal.
Protect the form with the built-in Icon Captcha or use Joomla's standard captcha which may be of type Google ReCaptcha, hCaptcha, EasyCalcCheck+ and Cloudflare Turnstile. Admin and visitor can receive a beautiful styled eMail. Furthermore you can redirect your visitor to a custom page including all the data or stay on the same page and post data silently. The data is also saved to a database which you can access by an optional free component. If you'd like to import the data, the csv attachment will assist you easily.
There are special use cases in the FAQ section to proof this form builder manages nearly every need! Feel free to contact us if you need any help.
Features
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Form settings:
- horizontal or stacked layout
- up to three columns
- default, primary or secondary card style
- submit button styling
- built-in Icon Captcha spam protection
- use of Joomla's default captcha
- hidden spam math and honeypot function
- blocklist for all fields and timer to send the form
- modal form option
- custom redirect with get or post data
- hidden post url submitting
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Form items:
- input types: text, select, textarea, radio and checkbox
- min and max values
- GDPR option
- date, email, multiple file attachments, numbers, phone, text, time and url inputs with required option
- label, icon and width styling
- pre-select values via url
- hidden fields (e.g. user ip, Joomla user, Server URL)
- masked phone numbers
- CleanTalk spam protection compatible
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eMail options:
- copy to sender
- cc and bcc recipient address
- recipients selectable only by name in form
- different mails for visitor and admin
- eMail header, content and footer styling
- use of variables in subject, header & footer
- form data attachment as csv or xsl
- form data vCard attachment
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Database:
- option to store submissions in database (fields submitted as JSON string)
- delete option after XX days
- including a free component to manage and export submitted form data in Joomla!
- including modules (front- and backend) to list latest submissions
- option to store submissions in database (fields submitted as JSON string)
Demo 2

Karen

Tom

Michael

Alice
Write Karen
Write Tom
Write Michael
Write Alice
Demo 3
Demo 4
Demo 5
You can also collect various hidden data
FAQs
- text (date, email address, files, numbers, phone numbers, text, time and url)
- textarea
- select
- radio
- checkbox
- GDPR (checkbox with GDPR text)
- Hidden (value, date, user ip, user agent, Joomla userid, Joomla username, server ip, server host and server url)
- Section (add anything you want with the editor)

Please select input type "text". File uploads can be added by text type "file".

You can simply set hidden values which will not be emailed to the customer like date, user ip, user agent, Joomla userid, Joomla username, server ip, server host and server url. You can also define a custom hidden value or use values from the URL (GET variables).
To use GET variables simply add the hidden value $_GET['variable'].
The form can be submitted to email addresses (TO, CC and BCC) including a CSV or XLS file containing all inputs. Also to the user as a copy (without attachment and hidden fields), as also as redirected to a new page as GET or POST data and optional as POST hidden in the background. This means you can process the data already in the background. Furthermore the data is stored in the Joomla database, too.

You can activate this option in the eMail tab.
Yes, you can. The options are already built in, so that you can use nice contact buttons instead of the forms e.g. in a team gallery like in Demo 2. Make sure that the section doesn't have an animation set-up, as this will block the rendering of the modal.

Please check the section the form is placed in and deactivate the animation. The animation will not be triggered on the modal so that the content will stay hidden. You can just put the form into a new section. If you want to open the modal with your own button just add it as HTML with <button uk-toggle="target: #ownid" type="button">
Yes. more Form can use the built-in Icon Captcha method or make use of the standard Joomla captcha like Google ReCaptcha, hCaptcha, EasyCalcCheck+ and Cloudflare Turnstile.
In order to use captcha plugins make sure it is selected as standard captcha in the global Joomla configuration and activate the option "use Joomla's standard captcha" in the element settings tab.
To use the Icon Captcha you only need to activate it in the element settings.
The Icon Captcha can be translated in the element settings. Translate the text "Please click on the icon:" to your language.
The icons themselves are the ones delivered with YOOtheme Pro. You can find a list here. The first icon in the list is (home). You may wish to translate this to "house" in english.
In order to do so you will set:home=house
More icons are added and configured line by line.

more Form uses the captcha that you set up as the default one in the Joomla global configuration. Please check that you have set a captcha there and activate the use in the settings tab of more Form.
Also make sure you are not using more than one form with a captcha activated as only the last loaded one will be solved correctly.
Make sure you are not using more than one form with a captcha plugin activated as only the last loaded one might be solved correctly. Icon Captchas can be used multiple time. If you struggle with spam we recommend checking out CleanTalk.org.
You can use the Input -> GDPR option which already shows a common text used for GDPR option. No external scripts are used.

Yes, single and multiple. You can change the button text by using the placeholder field.
You can style admin and visitor mails independetly. You can also make use of a nice header and footer option. The input fields will be submitted as a nice table. You can also make use of the data to greet the user with the input name. Just use the name of the field like Hello, %Name%!

We added a free component to easily search between dates and in the submitted form date as also export data as CSV. You can download it free from the downloads section after you bought the builder element. There are also two modules to show the latest submitted data in frontend or backend.

Please disable the option "Use visitor address as FROM" in the eMail tab, because your mailserver does not allow to change the FROM value to the visitors mail address. more Form uses this as sender address for you to quickly respond in your mail client.
If the error continues also empty the "Sender (FROM) email" input field. more Form will then use the settings from Joomla's global configuration.
If you still get this error, then you have to check Joomla's global configuration, too. The fields "From Email" and "SMTP username" need to be set the same also while using providers like Hotmail/Outlook.com.
If you don't receive any mails your (mail)server configuration does not support all options that you activated in more Form.
For example: Some servers do not allow sending attachments while using PHPmail or sendmail. Always try to use SMTP as default mailer in Joomla, which is the best and most secure option. Some mailservers won't accept mails sent by PHPmail or will mark them easier as spam.
Also some mailservers don't accept sending in the name of a foreign domain. more Form uses the visitors mail address as sender address by default. Disable the option in the eMail settings tab and try again.
Please be advised that using a Redis cache server is not working as it will remove the form data on submission. Please set the Cache in Joomla to either disabled or File, but not to Redis.
As these problems are very rare, we are here to assist you. Just contact us if you face any issues.

Just put the elements in the columns you like. We have implemented a left, middle and right column. The element will be positioned in the order of your element structure.
By default HTML form validation accepts local mail addresses like above. This is because they are valid. Standard validation only checks the occurance of @ in the address and assums the visitor is clever enough to fill in the owned mail address. If you want a better validated mail check you can add a pattern like [^@\s]+@[^@\s]+\.[^@\s]+
Please be advised that using a Redis cache server is not working as it will remove the form data on submission. Please set the Cache in Joomla to either disabled or File.
Special use cases
You can set default values and you are also able to fill in the fields with the url. Have a look at the grey button in Demo 1 which fills some fields by url. You can also fill hidden fields.
You can use a pattern to configure what input you expect. Read more about it here. Be careful and only use it if you know what you are doing.
Examples:
only characters a-z and whitespace for input fields^[a-zA-Z\s]+$
any kind of letter character from any languag and whitespace for input fields^[\p{L} ]+$
We do not recommend adding any regex pattern.
If you select the input type email address from the text types a basic HTML5 validation of the content is made. Basically HTML5 forms only check the occurance of a @ in the input as postmaster@localhost also is a valid mail address. More info here. If you would like to mask a mail address with the pattern field you should use
[^@\s]+@[^@\s]+\.[^@\s]+
We do not recommend adding any regex pattern.
The mask feature allows you to get a specific phone number syntax without the user having to hassle around with whitespace and hyphens. You can use these definitions:
0- any digita- any letter*- any character[]- optional group{}- fixed group
Everything else is a fixed character. If you need a fixed character that is like the definition (e.g. the number 0) you can escape it with \\ (e.g. \\0).
Examples:
German phone numbers of +49 (0) 12345 / 6789-0:
+{49} (\\0) 00000 / 0000-0
Ukraine phone numbers of +38 (099) 999-99-99:
+{38} (\\000) 000-00-00
A select field can contain BCC-mail addresses. If you want the visitor to select a contact person but don't want to show the mail address in public, you can simply fill the value field with
Name|[bcc]mailaddress[/bcc]
To provide more than one contact person add a semicolon, like
John Doe|[bcc]
The mail addresses will be encrypted in the source.
Just set "attach vCard" in email tab to "yes" and also add the vCard type to each field that is vCard relevant in the field settings.
Changelog
Version 2.3.59
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fixFile uploads in YOOtheme Pro 5
Version 2.3.58
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additionYOOtheme Pro 5 support
Version 2.3.57
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fixCloudflare captcha in Modal
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additionDynamic content per field
Version 2.3.56
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additionJoomla 6 support and Joomla Update System
Version 2.3.55
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additiondynamic content source
Version 2.3.54
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additionFile size check (post_max_size from php.ini or custom value)
Version 2.3.53
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additionCleanTalk integration (add api key in spam settings to activate)
Version 2.3.52
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fixCloudflare captcha plugin (1.5.1) compatibiliy
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fixredirect to URL not working if "Include data" was set to "No"
Version 2.3.51
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additionjpeg compression to image uploads
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fixnotification message scroll to on multiple forms
Version 2.3.50
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additionmultiple recipients combined by ';' in TO, CC, BCC fields.
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additionoption to scroll to form after submit (if ID is set in advanced tab)
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optimizedJoomla caching of content
Version 2.3.49
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additionJoomla 5 support
Version 2.3.48
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additionindependet color option for Icon Captcha
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additioncheck if blocklist contains | at the beginning or end
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optimizeditem field name if none was entered
Version 2.3.47
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additionbuilt-in Icon Captcha spam protection
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additionresponsive tables in mails
Version 2.3.46
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fixcounter on submit button
Version 2.3.45
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additionoption to set acceptable file MIME types
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additionunderneath all columns option (e.g. for textareas)
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fixBCC selections did not send if no general BCC was provided
Version 2.3.44
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additionremove CleanTalk event token
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additionremove recaptcha-v3-token
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additionregex pattern for text input fields
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fixcheckboxes label format in emails if label contains whitespace
Version 2.3.43
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additionnew lines in textareas will be preserved
Version 2.3.42
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additionoption to activate honeypot to prevent spam
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additionoption to prevent form being sent within XX seconds to prevent spam
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additionoption to hide the submit button within XX seconds to prevent spam
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additionblocklist to block words or domains on all fields to prevent spam
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additioncountdown on submit button if form is blocked for XX seconds
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additiontime that the visitor took to fill out the message in admin mail
Version 2.3.41
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fixarray_merge error on PHP 8.0
Version 2.3.40
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additionBCC option for select values
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fixCloudflare Turnstile captcha
Version 2.3.39
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additionformat dates in mails
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fixJSON format in database
Version 2.3.38
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additionfrontend module showing latest submissions
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additionbackend module showing latest submissions
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fixpreviously required fields could block the form submission
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fixforms without any input fields could not solve the hidden spam check
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fixspecial characters could break the notification
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fixXLS generation modified database submission
Version 2.3.37
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additionmin and max date values
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additionmin and max time values (description will alert if user input is not valid)
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additionmail align to center data
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additionhide form data option for admin mails (to fully style the admin mail in the mail header section)
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additionregex pattern for mail addresses
Version 2.3.36
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optimizedhiddden spam math function
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additionmin and max input field lengths on text and textarea fields incl. counter
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additionCaptcha validation
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additionoption to disable submit button until required fields are filled out
Version 2.3.35
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additionspam protection with math question which will be hidden and auto-filled in by JS
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fixcopy to sender not activatable





