Register the user, redirect them to the plan page. That is your option. Ensure initial fields have been selected and it will populate for the user.

This is terrible workflow and it is not a solution but a patchy work-around to something that isn't quite right. My client agrees it seems ridiculous to have to register username/password first, then fill in further details in a form after logging in instead of at registration time. It becomes even more complicated if you throw email verfication into the mix, confusing many people.

Like I keep repeating, the CB forms are ungainly and ugly to use when one has many extra custom fields, so I choose NOT to use them. Just a big long page with fields/drop-downs and checkboxes all in a vertical row.

I need to use a custom form somewhere and Chronoforms was initially the best fit, but then they have no idea about CB Subs at all, and no way of even looking at how to integrate because it's ioncube encoded.

You mentioned tabs before as a work-around to ugly CB forms and you spoke of them as a "possibilty". That's about as much help as me telling you it's "possible" to build a spaceship with a ball of twine and some tin-foil. Why are developers so frustratingly myopic?

If only the redirect by plan worked properly. See my other post:

www.joomlapolis.com/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/func,view/catid,88/id,106898/#106898

Post edited by: daemonhunt, at: 2009/08/03 23:46

Thanks Beat you helped me a little. Krileon confirmed for me on another post that redirects upon login by plan are not functioning correctly (bug), and I find this is ironic considering I have been pulling my hair out thinking I was making mistakes trying this method at yours and Krileons suggestions.

I will say that I have read many of your other posts on this forum and I like your answers as they are a little more concise than Krileon's, so thank you.

The way my form works now doesn't make my client very happy and I'll describe it to you as it stands for now until you guys can perhaps help me figure this out later. There are a couple of weird bugs too so read on:

PROBLEM WITH THIS FORM BEFORE I START: User Registers, then logs in for first time, then chooses plan (and optionally pays), then has to log in again. Convuluted illogical flow sorry. If the [redirect on first login by plan] bug that Krileon mentioned was fixed that may help the sign-up order a little, but not completely... My client believes that user should choose plan as he registers, and unfortunately I cannot make this work with Chronoforms involved. So:

1) User fills out my multipage chronoform which, along with custom data that is transferred into CB via the chronoform to CB plugin, also contains regular registration fields.

2) User upon first login is presented with my 2 plans which they must choose. *** BUG: if they don't do this here and now and click away from the page for some reason, when they go to log in again they are just given an error message saying

* Login denied! Your account has either been blocked or you have not activated it yet. Did you not get an activation e-mail and follow the validation link?* Login denied! Your account has either been blocked or you have not activated it yet. Did you not get an activation e-mail and follow the validation link?

Yes, that's right, it not only shows this error, but it shows it twice! This is going to cause problems with some of the people signing up to the site. We have a potential user base of 20,000+ people, so you do the math what percentage of people are going to get stuck with just this issue. In the CB user manager back-end they simply remain unactivated, and they cannot further their subscription on the front end without intervention from an administrator

3) If a plan is successfully checked on this window (all CB fields hidden per plan), then the user goes to pay (or not in terms of the free plan), which works okay so far.

4) Then the user is told to log in again! How annoying!

So there we go guys. This is the best I could come up with based on weeks of stress and waiting 12 hours each time for you to post back on this forum because of time zone differences.

PS. Beat, I am a CSS expert, just not a MySQL, or JS expert. I would love to see a nice example of a complex CB form designed using just CSS if you have a link, or even a nice in-depth tutorial or something. I'm curious.

Post edited by: daemonhunt, at: 2009/08/12 07:22

i would like to have a good tutorial also with
incorparating chronoforms cb and cbsubs...

@ deamonhunt i am afraid you will have to search a programmer.