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I am currently do quite a bit of work with Joomla from a campaign point of view. It occurred to me to look at how civi rather than Joomla could fulfil this function. Here is what I am doing and some feedback on smarter ways to accomplish in Civi are welcome.

Typical campaign has a core functionality that provides and perofrm s the following
1. Sign up form with email subscription options (sometimes a petiton letter)
2. Provides custom thank you email s to activist and custom email to admin
3. Stores data
4. Allows for second action by same user with same email (eg offers choices of different ways to support. post a video, flickr photo etc)

I can do this in Joomla with a form component that is uber flexible - but it doesnt write to Civi db :-(

If organisation is uusing Civi it makes a lot of sense to do this processign and storage in Civi.

However the following problems arise:
Profiles can make a simpe signup form that can be used in joomla articles but:
-there is no customisable thankyous
-additional actions are hard to record in a custom field
-not plain text object (non-form) can be included in a profile field

One way is to look at zero cost contribute pages as solutions, but then you lose out on the ability to include it in a joomla article or make a direct link between afirstan additional actions by the same person

Possible solutions from the Joomla side might include a joomla plugin  that writes the data to civi,
eg check for match, update a custom activity or fields. Writing to Civi seems a bit long winded when direct submission seems almost possible

Has anyone got any ideas on how this can be acheived in Civi directly?

cheers

alanski