Web Development Documentation

This procedure describes how to add a security CAPTCHA to a form using ChronoForms version 5.  

Getting Started: Select the form

• Log into the Joomla! administrator page for your web site
• Click on Components > ChronoForms5:
  
  
• Ignore the message "Your ChronoForms installation on webdevel.sas.rutgers.edu is NOT validated."  Chronoforms will still work.
• In Forms Manager, click on the name of the form you want to add a CAPTCHA to.
• Click on the Designer tab (see #1 below).

Add the CAPTCHA

• Drag the Captcha button under Basic (see #2 below) to the light blue designer area under Widgets (see #3 below):

• Click and hold the Drag button for the Captcha element so that it appears above the "Submit" button element (see #1 below):

• Click the Edit button for the Captcha element (see #2 above).
  
  • Click the Validation tab (see #1 below)
  • Change Required to "Yes" (see #2 below)
  • Click Save and Close to the lower right (see #3 below):

• Click on the Setup tab (see #1 below).
  
  • Click Captcha (see #2 below).
    
  • Change Enabled to "Yes" (see #3 below).
    
  • (Optional) Modify the message in the Error field (see #4 below).
  • Click Save and Close to the upper right (see #5 below):

What's next?

If you haven't already, you can configure your form to email the data to one or more people. 

You can also configure your form to save information to a database.

Once you configure your form to collect data, you can embed it within an article.