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Mooj Proforms’ User Manual

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Dipl.

Informatiker (FH) Fahrettin Kutyol

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Updated

24.09.2012

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149

1. Introduction

Proforms is a Joomla® form extension by the company Mad4Media. This extension is

available in two versions (commercial and non-commercial). The non-commercial version

has reduced functionality. This Manual is written for both but mainly for the full /

commercial version. Whenever a function is not supported by the free (at no charge)

version this manual informs you with an advice.

Please note that this document is available at no charge. There is no claim to completeness

and correctness of the information provided in this document.

This document is copyrighted by Mad4Media – Dipl. Informatiker (FH) Fahrettin Kutyol.

Publishing this document, publishing parts of it or using parts in other media is not

allowed without expressed permission of the copyright holder.

1.1. History

Mad4Media is a small software company from Zweibrücken in Germany. The owner Dipl.

Informatiker (FH) Fahrettin Kutyol started a small project in 2008 with the aim to provide a

job recruitment extension for Joomla® 1.0. Originally Mad4Media wanted to provide a

Joomla® bundle for gastronomy. One of the requirements was to provide a contact

opportunity so that the administrators could easily create a customized job recruitment

form. This extension has been called `Mad4Joomla Mailforms`.

There are still witnesses to this approach. If you view Proforms’ database tables you will see

the table `#__m4j_jobs` and all the form id’s are called `jid`.

It quickly became clear that `Mad4Joomla Mailforms` was rather a form component than a

job recruitment extension. After finishing `Mad4Joomla Mailforms` this extension has

been published at the Joomla Extensions Directory® with the aim to promote the company

(including a small copyright link back).

`Mad4Joomla Mailforms` became popular very fast and many users, like web workers and

agencies, wished to have a link back free version or special functions.

The popularity along with all inquiries began claiming a lot of time and thus generating

costs for the company.

This was the point where the idea for Proforms has been born. A commercial fork of

`Mad4Joomla Mailforms`, including many extra functions and no copyright link back.

After nine months of development Proforms (commercial version) has been published in

January 2010. Proforms (Advance) got also popular. After one year of success Joomla® 1.6

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