I don't have first-hand experience using Fabrik. If I have a need for people to submit a "form" to create an article, I use plain, ordinary Joomla. People who are assigned as Editors can create articles from the frontend of a Joomla website that can then be reviewed - edited as necessary - and published if they are suitable. This is how people submit articles to Joomla Community Magazine; they fill in a "form" and their submission is reviewed.
Reading the original question, if you're asking how a person could embed a form within an article and then submit the article for review, it's certainly possible to achieve this without using any extra extensions but the answer depends on what kinds of forms you're trying to create within articles and what would those forms do? If those forms simply execute Javascript - which isn't going to modify the data in the website - then there's no need for any additional extensions to achieve those purposes. If the forms are going to add/delete/modify data in the database then this involves PHP scripting and, generally-speaking, using PHP (which involves installing other extensions to allow it) carries additional risks to the structural integrity of a website.
As the result of a search of this forum showed, the main criticism of Fabrik - the reason the extension was removed from the JED - was that installing that component modified the Joomla core CMS. Unless circumstances have changed, if this extension (or any other extension) changes the core CMS it could result in the extension becoming unworkable after an upgrade of Joomla, Joomla could become unworkable after installing the extension or it may prevent future upgrades of Joomla. I would approach suggestions about extensions like these cautiously. They may work, they may not but, more importantly, we don't know if people who suggest Fabrik have actually used it to address this question or are just parroting what they've heard or read about it.I wonder why [Fabrik does] not appear in the Joomla [Extensions] directory.
Reading the original question, if you're asking how a person could embed a form within an article and then submit the article for review, it's certainly possible to achieve this without using any extra extensions but the answer depends on what kinds of forms you're trying to create within articles and what would those forms do? If those forms simply execute Javascript - which isn't going to modify the data in the website - then there's no need for any additional extensions to achieve those purposes. If the forms are going to add/delete/modify data in the database then this involves PHP scripting and, generally-speaking, using PHP (which involves installing other extensions to allow it) carries additional risks to the structural integrity of a website.
Statistics: Posted by mtgg — Sun Aug 18, 2024 12:56 am