creating joomla articles using fabrik form

[pkjoshi]

Is it possible to create/edit joomla articles using joomla forms?

 

[cheesegrits]

Not sure. We have a 'fabrik2article' form plugin, but afaik nobody has tested or tried it in Fabrik 3.x.

What you can do is use the J! Fabrik article plugin, to render a Fabrik form inside an article, using the {fabrik view=form id=XX} syntax.

-- hugh

 

[pkjoshi]

Hugh, thank you for your suggestion
but, I don't think that will serve my purpose.
Actually there is a Non-profit Association - Chamber of Commerce & Industries.
what they want is that every time there is something new is posted on their website, the copy of it is also delivered to the inbox of all the members.

So if the joomla form can create joomla article, the same article could have been delivered to all the members adding the email plugin.

Is there any other way how I can achieve this?

 

[lutana]

Hi, I think I must be reading this wrong, I am not sure what Joomla Forms are so is probably where the issue is, but it is easy to create a Fabrik Form that can be used to create a joomla article by using the _content table as the base for the Fabrik List.

And then can be put into a set category or user selected as well as all the other joomla fields.

Then on Submit the entered information can be emailed to whomever.

But I expect that I have missed something here and on a totally different thing.

 

[Jaanus]

Fabrik can create lists+form on any table, so why not on _content table? You just have to learn all the data that is written there by com_content (learn what the data is for, what it means and does).

Difficult would be to create categories with Fabrik, but I think there would be no problems with selecting needed category with databasejoin element...

So I wish you lucky research

 

[pkjoshi]

Hi, I think I must be reading this wrong, I am not sure what Joomla Forms are

Sorry, I meant Fabrik forms to create joomla articles.
and Yes, if it is so easy, then why we don't have a plugin. like for creating joomla user, plugin is there to create joomla user using fabrik forms.

 

[lutana]

I am not sure about the plugin, but selecting the _content table for the list database table then allows you to setup the elements you want for the form. So in my case I wanted articles that were submitted to go into a set category so I set the default catid (s5tr7_content___catid) to the desired category id. Adding a title uses the element (s5tr7_content___title), and so on. As Jaanus says a bit of research you can learn how to set any of the joomla article elements you wish.

Then when the article is submitted I use Form Plug-ins to email a small list of addresses, though can can use PHP to extend this. I created an Article Template for this so the email us nicely formatted.

I also use the plug-in receipt to send a copy of the submitted article to the person who submitted it.

It was a little a bit of work to get going but not too difficult. If I can help in more detail let me know.

 

[pkjoshi]

Thanks lutana, you have given enough hints to move.
I will give it a try and let you know the result.

 

[achartier]

I will give it a try and let you know the result.

Hi pkjoshi, how did you make out with this project? I would be interested in details on how this was done. Thanks.

 

[gustavino]

I am not sure about the plugin, but selecting the _content table for the list database table then allows you to setup the elements you want for the form. So in my case I wanted articles that were submitted to go into a set category so I set the default catid (s5tr7_content___catid) to the desired category id. Adding a title uses the element (s5tr7_content___title), and so on. As Jaanus says a bit of research you can learn how to set any of the joomla article elements you wish.

Then when the article is submitted I use Form Plug-ins to email a small list of addresses, though can can use PHP to extend this. I created an Article Template for this so the email us nicely formatted.

I also use the plug-in receipt to send a copy of the submitted article to the person who submitted it.

It was a little a bit of work to get going but not too difficult. If I can help in more detail let me know.

Hi Lutana,

thanks for your advices.
I see that you can email the article, via form plugin, to a list of addresses using php.
How can you do that?
Can you help me?

 

[Canuck]

I am interested in the same question, but so far haven't been able to find much. I wonder - do most users of Fabrik just ignore Joomla's article/category functions? Those functions seem to be the core of Joomla, yet there seems to be almost no Fabrik integration with them. However, the Joomla user - juser - function does integrate with that important part of Joomla. I would really be glad of help because I have a mass of 'articles' that I would like to bulk upload to Joomla categories.