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I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum, please direct me elsewhere if that is the case.

I have CiviCRM 3 installed in Joomla and use a 3rd party form extension (Chrono Forms) to allow new members to purchase membership (so also talking to a payment provider) and the member data is entered into a table and table structure of my choosing.

My question is: how should I approach the integration of this data with CiviCRM? How do I ensure that new members are automatically visible and manageable in CiviMember? Do I insert new members automatically into the relevant CiviCRM tables? Or should I somehow use the API hooks to add memberdata?

As you can tell, I am rather new with the CiviCRM data structure and the options available to me, so if someone could point me in the right direction, that would be grand.


Cheers,
G.

Alternatively, have you looked at the membership module and forms provided by civicrm ?

Might be easier than integrating a new module if the features you needs are "standard"

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