Plugin - Joomla! Articles (Create Joomla! articles when submitting a form)

Download

You can download the plugin by logging with your purchase user, then head to Downloads > Paid Downloads > RSForm!Pro > Modules & Plugins > "Create Articles x.x".

Install

In the backend of your Joomla! installation go to Extensions > Manage > Install, and upload and install the plugin. Next thing would be to check if the plugin is published, and to do so, navigate to Extensions > Plugins, search for the "System - RSForm! Pro Create Articles" plugin and ensure it is published.

Configuration options:

• Create Article - this will enable the article creation during the submission.
• Create Article When Payment is Complete - If this option is enabled, the article will be created only after the payment has been confirmed by using the 'Confirm Payment' button while editing the submission. Confirming a payment is used when for some reason the gateway did not confirm it or when using Wire Transfer methods were payment is confirmed manually by you.
• Trigger Content Plugins on Article Save - an example on this functionality would be the automatic indexing of the article for the Joomla! smart search.
• Show Warning Messages in Frontend - with this enabled a warning message can be displayed within the frontend if the mapped fields are not completed accordingly.

Map Article Global Fields

This section handles main article configuration like author, title, category, as follows:

• Author (Created By) ID
• Created By Alias
• Created Date (SQL format - Y-m-d H:i:s)
• Category ID

You can use a script as the following (including the //<code> //</code> tags) within the "Items" section of your selectable field in order to list all the categories:

    //<code>
      $results = array();
      if ($categories = JCategories::getInstance('Content')->get('root'))
      {
         if ($children = $categories->getChildren(true))
         {
           foreach ($children as $category)
           {
             if ($category->level > 1)
             {
               $title = str_repeat('-', $category->level) . $category->title;
             }
             else
             {
               $title = $category->title;
             }

             $results[] = $category->id . '|' . $title;
           }
         }
      }
      return $results;
    //</code>

• Article Title
• Article Alias
• Meta Keywords
• Meta Description
• Status (0 - unpublished, 1 - published)
• Start Publishing (SQL format - Y-m-d H:i:s)
• Finish Publishing (SQL format - Y-m-d H:i:s)
• Language (* - all, 'en-GB' - for English)
• Access Level (1 - Public, 2 - Registered, etc.)
• Featured (0 - No, 1 - Yes)
• Tags (separated by comma) - The tags will be added if there is a user logged in and has permissions to create tags, if not they will be ignored.

Map Article Image Fields

This section handles article image configuration where you can include details on your article picture:

• Intro Image URL (Relative)
• Image Float (right, left, none, empty - global)
• Alt Text
• Caption
• Full Article Image URL (Relative)
• Image Float (right, left, none, empty - global)
• Alt Text
• Caption

Map Article URLs Fields

Adding helpful URLs with your article and control their behaviour:

• Link A
• Link A Text
• URL Target Window (0 - parent, 1 - new window, 2 - popup, 3 - modal)
• Link B
• Link B Text
• URL Target Window
• Link C
• Link C Text
• URL Target Window

Map Metadata Fields

This section handles article metadata configuration as follows:

• Robots (index, follow; noindex, follow; index, nofollow; noindex, nofollow)
• Author
• Content Rights
• External Reference

Map Joomla! Custom Fields

This section handles the Joomla! Custom Fields that you have set under Content > Fields area. The custom field needs to have the following permission Allowed: 'Edit Custom Field Value' for the User Group to which the submitter is assigned.

Article Content:

This section handles the Article content. The actual article is built by adding HTML code along with your desired field placeholders within the editor section.

Global Placeholders