Joomla to vTiger Integration Components Install Guide See this original thread in the forums for more information: http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=8576 Turn OFF the email cloaking mambot; it breaks email display in {vfields} 1) install bot_vconnection.tar.gz - Set SOAP server and secure SOAP server on the bot: e.g. http://www.{yourwebsite}.com/crm 2) install com_vtigerregistration.tar.gz - required before bot_vfield goes in 3) install bot_vfield.tar.gz - create /images/products and update bot to point to this folder 4) install com_helpdesk.tar.gz 5) install com_vfield.tar.gz 6) install plug_vtigerregistration2.zip usin the Community Builder plugin management screens - Publish the plugin 7) Apply joomla.tar.gz Patches to Joomla (joomla-home/includes) - just ftp the files over the base distro... BACKUP YOUR FILES FIRST!!!!! 8) Apply soap.tar.gz Patches to vTiger (crm-home and crm-home/soap) - just ftp the files over the base distro... BACKUP YOUR FILES FIRST!!!!! ------------------------------- IF YOU ARE USING OpenSEF: OpenSEF fixes on vfield submit redirect URL (at end of vfield.php script): /public_html/components/com_vfield/vfield.php The last thirteen lines become: // sefRelToAbs just crashes - 404 in OpenSEF // mosRedirect( sefRelToAbs($redirect_site."&entityid=".$res) ); elseif(preg_match("/^/",$redirect_site)) mosRedirect( $redirect_site ); else mosRedirect( $redirect_site."&entityid=".$res ); } else // sefRelToAbs just crashes - 404 in OpenSEF // mosRedirect(sefRelToAbs('index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id='.$pageid.'&entityid='.$res.'&Itemid='.$Itemid.'&msg='.$msg)); mosRedirect('index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id='.$pageid.'&entityid='.$res.'&Itemid='.$Itemid.'&msg='.$msg); ?> Note that we're commenting out the line that uses sefRelToAbs as this breaks in OpenSEF, and we just construct a regular URL - OpenSEF Rewriting Override: /public_html/components/com_sef/sef.php Add these lines after line 92: OR eregi("com_vfield", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) OR eregi("entityid=", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) These lines tell OpenSEF to ignore rewriting the URL when a vField form has been submitted! ---------------------------------- SAMPLE LEAD GENERATION FORM in a CONTENT ITEM: Cut and paste this into HTML mode of your content editor. Once in place, you can edit this using a normal the content editor functions. It's just easier to give you the HTML than trying to piece it together one part at a time.

	{vfield}VFormStart|Leads{/vfield}
Title	{vfield}Leads|salutation|edit|||{/vfield}
First Name ,	{vfield}Leads|firstname|edit|||required{/vfield}
Last Name ,	{vfield}Leads|lastname|edit|||required{/vfield}
Address ,	{vfield}Leads|lane|edit|||required{/vfield}
Suburb/City ,	{vfield}Leads|city|edit|||required{/vfield}
Postcode ,	{vfield}Leads|code|edit|||required{/vfield}
State	{vfield}Leads|state|edit|||{/vfield}
Country	{vfield}Leads|country|edit|||{/vfield}
Email ,	{vfield}Leads|email|edit|||required{/vfield}
Phone	{vfield}Leads|phone|edit|||{/vfield}
Website URL	{vfield}Leads|website|edit|||{/vfield}
Company Name ,	{vfield}Leads|company|edit|||required{/vfield}
Comment	{vfield}Leads|description|edit|||{/vfield}
	{vfield}Action|SetColumn|leadsource|Initial Consultation{/vfield} {vfield}Action|SetColumn|assigned_user_id|6{/vfield} {vfield}Action|SetColumn|assigntype|U{/vfield} {vfield}Action|RedirectSite|index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=1{/vfield} {vfield}VFormEnd|Submit{/vfield}

Note that in RedirectSite id is the content item id and Itemid is the menu item id - you need both