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I am having issues with creating profiles and having the form save my data.  I have created 2 profiles and 2 groups (1 for each profile).  One is a Newsletter signup, that just has 1 field, email address.  The other is a form for people to request a speaker at an event of theirs.  I have both forms on my pages the way I want, but when I submit either of them, I am taken to the homepage, and nothing is stored.  On the request a speaker page, all fields are marked as required, but if I just submit the form with nothing entered, it takes me back to my homepage.  Below are the links for each of these forms.  Could someone please help me get this working?  I am using Joomla, and I would be willing to give someone a userid/password if the need be  to help me with this.

Newsletter signup: http://www.vickiesangelwalk.org/joomla15/
Request a speaker: http://www.vickiesangelwalk.org/joomla15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=31&id=49&Itemid=16

Thank you very much!!!

Well, I just tested my site in IE6, and submitting both of these forms actually works.  The Newsletter signup redirects me back to the same page, and has my url parameter on it.  this is the only browser that seems to work.  I have been testing on FireFox 3.55 and IE 8, and neither of those browsers work.

Please, can anyone help me?

I don't have either of these forms assingned in my Joomla Menu Manager.  The request a speaker is part of an article and the newsletter signup is the html that you get from using the HTML form code snippet provided by CiviCRM.  I have just noticed something though.  If I go to my Events page, and register for the Test Event, the registration works, and I can now use the newsletter signp and request a speaker forms with no problems???

I've read that before, but that is not how my site is set up.  I have the Newsletter form as part of my homepage design, not a seperate page that you click a link to get to.  Also, the request a speaker is part of an article, as i want this item to be a part of a category in Joomla, so I had to create an article and use the HTML Form Snippet code in my article.  What is the purpose of the HTML Form Snippet if I can't use it anywhere on my site?  The instructions for the HTML Form Snippet say "The HTML code below will display a form consisting of the active fields in this Profile. You can copy this HTML code and paste it into any block or page on ANY website where you want to collect contact information".  so, I should be able to take the code this generates and put it anywhere to display my profile form, right?

If the form is in an article / custom module Joomla submission strips certain attributes and sometimes these need whitelisting in the config. So id attribute in form might be stripped if not explicitly allowed. You can enable blakc/whitelist in article manage config.

hth
alanski

Can anyone Please help me with this?  I have put the form code in my custom template.  Would Joomla still strip things?  Has anyone used the stadalone html code with Joomla?

Thanks

There is no one here that can help??  I'm willing to give access to my admin area temporarily for help.

I think I have solved your issue. Profile no 8 for speaker - when accessed direct it throws an error which suggest that the profile is actually an editing profile rather than a create.

I noticed the profiles settings have no profile or search box ticked - so civi doesn't know what this profile should be used for. As soon as I checked profile in the profile settings, the form starts to behave more sensibly.

However there is something counterintuitive and possibly a bug.

HTML snippet creates urls like:

index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/edit&gid=7&reset=1&

However since checking the profile box under settings the page now renders the followng url

speaker = index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/create&gid=8&reset=1&

which works fine.

The HTML snippet for your email sign up produces the same edit profile link but unlike the speaker sign up it produces a form action url as an edit rather than create profile link.

eg.email= index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/edit&gid=7&reset=1&

If you change this to
index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/create&gid=7&reset=1&
I am sure it will work as planned.

I havent checked if any of your profiles are published in menus but I cant explain the difference in the rendering of form action urls

Bug masquerading as feature?

alanski

Mmmm
Really puzzling - havent checked IE browser but in FF mac i signed up three times from here:http://www.vickiesangelwalk.org/joomla15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=31&id=49&Itemid=16

A civiurl in joomla for email signup works: http://www.vickiesangelwalk.org/joomla15/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/edit&gid=7&reset=1&amp has definitely signed me up the email list.

Trying the source code as a standalone file also works too - though it has some empty javascript tags.
(I notice there are no cancellation urls setup n CiviCRM - might be useful to set these up)

You might want to add this to your module/template on home page sign up and test It should work.

If your issue is INternet Explorer not processing forms then I suspect some javascript issue - will have a quick look tomorrow for IE errors 

  <!-- .tpl file invoked: CRM/Profile/Form/Edit.tpl. Call via form.tpl if we have a form in the page. -->
            <form  action="http://www.vickiesangelwalk.org/joomla15/index.php?option=com_civicrm&amp;task=civicrm/profile/edit&amp;" method="post" name="Edit" id="Edit" >



  <div><input name="postURL" type="hidden" value="" />
<input name="cancelURL" type="hidden" value="/joomla15/index.php?option=com_civicrm&amp;task=civicrm/profile&amp;reset=1&amp;gid=7" />
<input name="group[2]" type="hidden" value="1" />
<input name="_qf_default" type="hidden" value="Edit:cancel" />
</div>


<script type="text/javascript" src="/joomla15/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/js/Common.js"></script>
<div id="crm-container" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

       
    <div id="profilewrap7"><fieldset><legend>News & Events Newsletters</legend><table class="form-layout-compressed"><tr id="editrow-email-Primary"><td class="label"><label for="email-Primary">  Email
   <span class="marker" title="This field is required.">*</span>
</label></td><td class="edit-value"><input maxlength="64" size="30" name="email-Primary" type="text" id="email-Primary" class="form-text big required" /></td></tr><tr id="helprow-email-Primary"><td>&nbsp;</td><td class="description">Sign up to receive email updates on the latest news and events.</td></tr></table></fieldset></div><div class="crm-submit-buttons"><input class="form-submit default" accesskey="S" name="_qf_Edit_next" value="Save" type="submit" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="form-submit default" name="_qf_Edit_cancel" value="Cancel" type="submit" /></div>

</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  </script>
 


<script type="text/javascript">
   
cj(document).ready(function(){
cj('#selector tr:even').addClass('odd-row ');
cj('#selector tr:odd ').addClass('even-row');
});


</script>


</form>